Reply #7: hard to say [View All]

[Neecy]

The conventional wisdom has been: the rural areas are of course strongly Repuke, the cities are solidly democratic, so like always, Missouri is a battle for the suburban vote.

Given the margin in MO (8%, the last I saw on the MO SofS site) I'm not sure if this is still true. One would think that Bush would have had limited appeal in the more moderate suburbs, but in areas of Jackson county outside of KC he won by a quite a bit. I did some phone banking to voters in Independence - home of Truman - and it's really become freeper central up there.

I just hope the party here does some serious work in the next few years, before the attitude becomes completely entrenched and we turn into the next Alabama.