Timothy Birdnow

I'll be surprised if she can win.

She's running against Wesley Bell, a leftist Democrat to be certain, but one who is not completely crazy. Bell has a lot of money it seems, and I am seeing all sorts of adds for Bell and none Cori Bush. Bell is the incumbent and he had been around for a while, including being the Prosecuting Attorney in St. Louis County.

Bell is being cagey; he's attacking her for attacking other Democrats while he starts his commercials attacking Donald Trump and then mentioning Bush is dividing the Democrats. I doubt this strategy would work ina purple district but it probably will in the very blue Missouri 1st.

Democrat Russ Carnahan lost his seat in Mo. 3 when his district was eliminated and a sizable chunk of the south-side area then went to the first district (where I am a resident). At the time it was the stronghold of toothless Lacy Clay, son of the former grifter Congressman William Clay, the man who won his seat from Jelly Roll Hogan, the head of the Hogan crime gang. Forty five percent of the population is black while forty percent is white. There is zero chance of ever electing a Republican in this district. I will probably take a Democrat ballot on tuesday to vote for Bell. (In Missouri you don't have to register party preference for primaries as in most other states.)

At any rate I'm fairly certain Bell will win and Bush will lose but I'm not taking any chances. I'm a Bell man at least where the primary is concerned.

Not sure who the Republicans are running if anybody but I will certainly vote for whoever shows up there - or for, say, the Constitution Party or Libertarians. I might even write myself in if it comes to that. I often do that.

Bush was an embarrassment. Bell isn't a whole lot better but he's not the same sort of chip-on-the-shoulder buffoon as is Bush.

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