Missouri Primary One Week Away
The Democratic convention began in Philadelphia yesterday. The Republican convention wrapped up last Thursday with the nomination of Donald J. Trump and running mate Mike Pence. In a May 2015 Sunday Poll Trump didn’t even male the top 5!
- Jeb Bush
- TIE: Rand Paul/Marco Rubio
- TIE: Dr. Ben Carson/Chris Christy/Rick Perry
But it was early in the race and the list of candidates was too long. Still, the polls here are non-scientific and participation was very low.
In the meantime, a week from today, Missouri has a big primary election. I voted absentee a couple of weeks ago, after researching the races and all the candidates in each, I applied my personal rules for voting:
- If only one candidate, skip that office.
- Don’t vote for the candidate favored by the political establishment.
- Being likely win isn’t a valid reason to vote for or against a candidate.
- Don’t dismiss a candidate just because they’ve never been elected to office before.
While I’m not enamored by the DNC, I did take a Democratic ballot.
Here’s how I voted:
- US Senate: Cori Bush
- US House: Maria Chappelle-Nadal
- Gov: Eric Morrison
- Lt. Gov: Winston Apple
- Secretary of State: MD Rabbi Alam
- Attorney General: Teresa Hensley
- State Treasurer: Pat Contreras
- State Senate: Dylan Hassinger
- State Rep: only one candidate — skipped
- Circuit Attorney: Patrick Hamacher
- Sheriff: Vernon Betts
- Treasurer: only one candidate — skipped
- 5th Ward Committeeman: Rasheen Aldridge
- 5th Ward Committeewoman: Megan Betts
On the Republican side the ads have been numerous and nasty in several races, I’m looking forward to reviewing the results. And to a break in political commercials for a month or so until the general election ads begin. Thankfully we have Netflix.
— Steve Patterrson
So basically you voted for no one who is going to win…
Perhaps, we’ll see after all the votes are counted. If others win without my vote I’d much rather support others than waste my vote on a candidate that doesn’t need it. I campaigned for some of the people I voted for — including hosting a meet & greet.
So, I was off by a bit… 2 of the candidates you supported won… but the remaining 10 lost.
And I would actually argue that 1 of the 2 that won (Teresa Hensley) is more of the political establishment than the loser (Pat Contreras) in that race.