McCaskill considers Senate run

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Time's a-wastin'. From today's Kansas City Star (7/12/05):

McCaskill considers Senate run

By STEVE KRASKE
The Kansas City Star

A few months ago, Claire McCaskill said running for the U.S. Senate was a highly unlikely prospect. No longer.

After a weekend trip to Nantucket Island, Mass., where she met with a bevy of Democratic senators, McCaskill says she hasn’t made a final call about whether she will challenge Republican incumbent Jim Talent next year.

“No decision has been made,” McCaskill said Monday about her plans for 2006. “I’m gathering what I think is essential information to make this decision.”

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McCaskill said that she went on the Nantucket trip “just to talk to people” and that her decision probably wouldn’t be made for several weeks. But given the amount of time McCaskill is taking to make her decision, many Democrats have begun to think that she might alter her career path, which has been aimed for years at the governorship.

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1. What's the latest she could afford to announce?

And couldn't McCaskill still run for Governor in 2016, if she defeats Talent in '06? After all, as a (presumed) second-term incumbent, she would be a shoo-in for the primaries to replace (presumed incumbent) Governor Jay Nixon.

Meanwhile, Robin Carnahan can challenge Kit Bond in 2010 (or run for an open-seat if Bond retires).