McCaskill says she’s definitely running for re-election in 2012
By Jo Mannies, Beacon Political Reporter, and Robert Koenig, Washington Correspondent
Posted 6:08 pm, Wed., 11.3.10U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Wednesday that she’s “absolutely” seeking another term in 2012 — shooting down rampant rumors in Republican circles that she woudn’t seek re-election and might even step down early.
“Anybody who thinks I’m not running in 2012 doesn’t know me very well,” McCaskill said in an interview Wednesday…
There was also this:
…McCaskill currently is Missouri’s most powerful Democrat in Washington. On a state level, she has a strong voice in the party’s operations, although control of the state party’s apparatus is up to Gov. Jay Nixon, a fellow Democrat and former rival. The two now are on good terms and talk regularly…
Right.
Is she going to run as a Democrat or a Corpublican?
I’m sure she’ll be much relieved now that Karl Rove said “climate is done.” The Repugs are going to hamstring any attempts by the EPA to monitor the crap that Big Coal is shoving into our lungs and gushing into our drinking water.
She better start acting like a Democrat and fighting the fuckers at every turn, or she will lose. The blue dogs are an endangered species, and if she wants to ride the wave of young, democratic voters that will once more turn out for Obama two Novembers hence, she has to give them something between now and then.
Those people outstate will never vote for her, she is a pro-choice Democrat and they don’t want to run the risk of pissing off the preacher man. She best just write them off now and start racking up some liberal bona fides.