1. Dem nightmare

2. COVID Contraction

3. Stimulus consequence

4. Reason to Wayfair

5. Education matters

6. Fewer foreign students

7. COVID cases comparison

8. More cases, fewer deaths

9. Arf city

RGA Drops Another $4M into Gov Race

Nothing says “tightening race” like the Republican Governors Association dropping in another $4 million. And that’s what happened yesterday.

This brings the RGA’s total investment into the race to over $12.6 million.

Driving the Day: Gov’s Debate

The postponed gubernatorial debate will take place today at 2PM. But with four candidates – the Green and Libertarian parties will be represented – it’s harder for the two major party candidates to engage each other as easily. Probably the best either campaign hopes for is a clip that can be repurposed into a catchy web ad.

Parson Reverses Some Withholds

Governor Mike Parson announced he was releasing $38 million in budget appropriations he’d previously restricted during the initial economic uncertainty of the COVID outbreak. Additionally, he announced about $95 million in CARES Act funding.

Team Galloway: Race Within MOE
Between September 28 and October 2, 2020, Garin-Hart-Yang conducted a survey among 600 likely Missouri voters. This survey, which was conducted among landlines and cell phones, has a margin of error of +4.1%.
State Auditor Galloway has closed the gap with incumbent Mike Parson and the gubernatorial race is within the margin of error and basically a dead-heat, with Parson at 50% support and Galloway at 48%...

The Battle for the Suburbs

The heavy political fighting in Missouri is concentrated in the suburbs this cycle.

The battle so far has revolved around messaging.

Republicans made a pivot months ago to make crime the focus of their message. Democrats have kept COVID as their main issue.

Galloway Announces HUGE Quarter

In an email blast over the weekend, Auditor Nicole Galloway wrote: [M]y team has been tabulating the full total for our quarterly report that isn't due till the 15th, and now, I wanted to share the new total with you: $3,000,000…

1. Who Does the Work?

2. Covid in Context

3. Vaccine Trust

4. Hold the Popcorn.

5. The Other Epidemic

6. Democracy on the March.

7. Reading too!

8. Blackberry RIP

Big Checks Continue

A month from Election Day and the big checks are still coming into campaigns…

· The Republican Governors Association sent a fresh $3 million to their Missouri committee. That money will end up in the pro-Mike Parson PAC, Uniting Missouri, which has been running an independent campaign for Parson.

CLEAN Gets Another $1.2M

The campaign against Amendment 3 (CLEANER) continues to land big checks with one month until the election.

GOP Eyes Senate 17

One Republican tipster sent in this blurb: An internal poll from senate candidate Mickey Younghanz shows that he is down only 8% points in his race against Sen. Lauren Arthur.