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They shovel the…spin and our useless old media eats it up:
Congressional Memo
As Republicans Predict a 2010 Surge, Democrats Dig In
By CARL HULSE
Published: October 10, 2009…Publicly and privately, Republicans have been upbeat about the midterm outlook, saying voter unrest demonstrated at meetings this summer coupled with strong candidate recruitment have them highly optimistic about capturing 40 or more Democratic seats and resuming command of the House. They are talking confidently about knocking off such old bulls as Representatives David R. Obey of Wisconsin and Ike Skelton of Missouri, the chairmen of the Appropriations and Armed Services Committees…
Let’s take a look at a little bit of Missouri election history:
Official Election Returns
State of Missouri General Election – 2008 General Election
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers
on Tuesday, December 02, 2008U.S. Representative – District 4 – Summary
Precincts Reporting 419 of 419Parnell, Jeff REP 103,446 34.1%
Skelton, Ike DEM 200,009 65.9%Total Votes 303,455
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Official Election Returns
State of Missouri General Election – November 2006 – General Election
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers
on Wednesday, November 29, 2006U.S. Representative – District 4 – Summary
Precincts Reporting 437 of 437Noland, James A. (Jim) REP 69,254 29.4%
Skelton, Ike DEM 159,303 67.6%
Holthouse, Bryce A. LIB 4,479 1.9%
Ivey, Melinda (Mel) PRG 2,459 1.0%
Palmer, Jerry L. WI 30 .0%Total Votes 235,525
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Official Election Returns
State of Missouri General Election
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers
on Wednesday, December 01, 2004U.S. Representative – District 4 – Summary
Precincts Reporting 468 of 468Skelton, Ike DEM 190,800 66.2%
Noland, James A. (Jim) REP 93,334 32.4%
Lower, Bill LIB 2,827 1.0%
Lister, Raymond CST 1,265 .4%Total Votes 288,226
[emphasis added]
Official Election Returns
State of Missouri General Election – 11/5/2002
Tuesday, November 05, 2002
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers
on Thursday, November 21, 2002U.S. Representative – District 4 – Summary
Skelton, Ike DEM 142,204 67.6%
Noland, James A. (Jim) REP 64,451 30.7%
Nelson, Daniel Roy LIB 3,583 1.7%Total Votes 210,238
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Official Election Returns
State of Missouri General Election
Tuesday, November 07, 2000
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers
on Monday, December 04, 2000U.S. Representative – District 4 – Summary
Skelton, Ike DEM 180,634 66.9%
Noland, Jim REP 84,406 31.3%
Knapp, Thomas L. LIB 2,878 1.1%
Rinehart, James Edward REF 1,971 .7%Total Votes 269,889
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Official Election Returns
State of Missouri General Election
Tuesday, November 03, 1998
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers
on Tuesday, November 24, 1998U.S. Representative – District 4 – Summary
Skelton, Ike DEM 133,173 71.0%
Noland, Cecilia D. REP 51,005 27.2%
Hoag, Edwin W. (Ed) LIB 3,438 1.8%Total Votes 187,616
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Yeah, I remember the 1998 election cycle. Ike Skelton’s opponent kept calling him a “liberal”. That worked out really well as a campaign strategery.
Official Election Returns
State of Missouri General Election
Tuesday, November 05, 1996
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers
on Thursday, November 21, 1996U.S. Representative – District 4 – Summary
Skelton, Ike DEM 153,566 63.8%
Phelps, Bill REP 81,650 33.9%
Hoag, Edwin (Ed) LIB 5,573 2.3%Total Votes 240,789
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Damn, 1996 was a bad year. Ike Skelton wasn’t able to get that 30 point margin of victory.
Now they expect legislative giants like Vicki Hartzler to pull off the upset. They’re already spending a lot of out-of-state money, but their kind of negative campaigning tends to just piss off voters in the 4th Congressional District. It takes more than batshit crazy right wingnuttery to garner more than 35% of the vote in the 4th Congressional District.
The republicans think they’re going to peel off more than 16% of Ike Skelton’s vote? That’s gonna take a serious pile of money.
This makes one wonder what color the sky is in their world. We already knew that. It’s red.
Skelton 137876 (67.75%)
Noland 65616 (32.25%)
I’m sure the radio stations will enjoy receiving some of money that they’ll waste.
One of the joys of appropriations bills is that it’s a yes/no vote on a variety of issues/decisions. I think that the hate crimes bill also concerns crimes against veterans/military members because they served. Something that should get a high vote total on it’s own. But in this setting, you’ll get a hundred-plus Republicans voting against that.
…it isn’t pretty. Pass the popcorn.