Kit Bond is out

Here’s best news I’ve heard all day: Kit Bond is retiring. The four-term senator has had a stranglehold on the seat, but by stepping down, he’s creating a wide-open race. There’s no obvious successor, which could make for a crowded (and hopefully ugly) Republican primary. The top contender on the Democratic side is probably Robin Carnahan, though it, too, is a pretty wide-open race. Should be fun to see how this one shapes up.

Show Me

“I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.”

– Willard Duncan Vandiver

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