Show Me Your Insiders - Missouri primary

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Missouri just went to the polls! Perhaps some of you didn’t notice because you were on vacation this week. Or watering your hydrangea. This is a tough time of the year for hydrangeas. Their little leaves begin to shrivel, and before you know it, there’s a large wilted bush studded with pompons and you’ve missed the Missouri primary.

One thing we learned this week was that people in Missouri are crazy about insiders.

This was a surprise. In the big, much-anticipated race for an open U.S. Senate seat, Missouri Democrats overwhelmingly voted to nominate Robin Carnahan, the secretary of state whose father was governor, whose mother was a U.S. senator and whose brother is currently a congressman. The Republican nominee is Roy Blunt, who has served seven terms in Congress and is the father of a former Missouri governor. In the House, Blunt was the interim majority leader between the disgraced Tom DeLay and the disgraceful John Boehner. Also, his wife is a lobbyist. This man is so far inside he could be a coal miner.

So are insiders back in? This would be shocking news to all the politicians who have been running around acting as if they’d spent less time inside than a Bedouin camel herder.

Actually, the message from Missouri was a little opaque.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/opinion/05collins.html?th&emc=th