Missouri Senate race unique in complex national cross-currents of 2016
Source: STL Post Dispatch
"If polling so far holds, the prospects of some Missourians voting for Trump and Kander is real. Such a split-ticket vote reflects little fealty to any policy positions.
In this construct, both Blunt and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton are the insiders with long Washington pedigrees, even though they are on different ideological planets, and Blunt has vigorously tried to tie Kander to Clinton, and both to President Barack Obama.
This calculus also hinges on the reality that for more than a year, Trump has attacked the Republican status quo — hence the extraordinary number of establishment Republicans who say they can’t vote for him — as much as he has any Democrat with the possible exception of Clinton.
Missouri has a history of anti-Washington bomb throwers exceeding their national performances. In both 1992 and 1996, independent presidential candidate Ross Perot did better in Missouri than he did nationally. That independent streak may again be emerging 2016. "
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