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GEORGE KENNEDY: Local Democrats Knuckle Down to Rebuild the Party

Missouri School of Journalism

Top to bottom, the 2016 election was a disaster for Missouri Democrats.

Republicans came out of that campaign holding six of our eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, five of the six statewide offices based in Jefferson City and overwhelming margins of 117 to 46 state representatives and 26 to eight state senators.

Only U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill and State Auditor Nicole Galloway, neither of whom was on the ballot last November, kept statewide offices in Democratic hands.

 
Even Boone County, an island of blue in a state turned red, elected a Republican state senator and put a Republican on the County Commission...

 

Read the complete column at the Missourian.