MOScout Daily Update: Patterson Win Floor, What It Means - Senator Schmitt - House GOP Blame Game - Dems' Rural Problem and more...
Patterson Wins Floor
Rep. Jon Patterson was elected to be the next House Floor Leader.
MOScout Daily Update: Big Takeaways from Last Night - New House Member Profiles - What's Next and more...
The Big Picture
The toplines from last night…
MOScout Daily Update: What To Watch For Tonight - Late HRCC IEs - Andrews Gets Appt - Dirty Tactics in House 98 and more...
What To Watch For
Here’s what I’ll be watching for tonight…
MOScout Daily Update: The Day Before... Keonig for Pro Tem? - MOScout Pick'em Contest - Appointment Talk - Ballwin Fined and more...
City of Baldwin Fined
Missouri Ethic Commission fined the City of Ballwin $100 for failing to put a “paid for” on a mailer about a use tax ballot question.
MOScout Sunday6: Workforce - Partisan Economic Divide - Trust in Government - Flu Season and more...
1. Labor force participation rate.
2. Childcare as a (or maybe the) workforce issue.
3. Disabled people in the workforce.
4. Partisan divide – is it money or education?
5 & 6. Trust in government.
7 & 8. Flu season.
MOScout Weekender: McCreery Retains Lead in Senate 24 - Hallway Sees Patterson Win - SurveyUSA Poll - Watching $$$ - WWTW and more...
Q3: Do you think Missouri is headed in the right direction, or going off on the wrong track?
Right direction: 29%
Wrong track: 55%
Not sure: 16%
MOScout Daily Update: Schmitt Up 11% - $$$ Into House Races - Politico on Hawley - Combest E-Book and more...
New Senate Poll
Trafalgar Group has a new US Senate poll.
Eric Schmitt – 53.3%
Trudy Valentine – 42.3%
Jonathan Dine – 2.1%
Undecided – 2.3%
MOScout Daily Update: Economy Vs Abortion - $500K into Legal MO Campaign - Alford as Anchor Bully and more...
Schmitt Closing Argument: The Economy, Stupid
In Eric Schmitt’s latest ad he casts the election in economic terms…
MOScout Daily Update: Rizzo Adds $200K to Dems' Push - Colorado Group Enters A3 Fight - GOP Momentum? - Erby for Mantovani and more...
Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo sent $200K from his campaign account to the Senate Democrats’ campaign committee.
MOScout Daily Update: HRCC $$$ to House Races - HDCC Defends Burton - Nonnemaker Heads to Alford Staff - Legal MO Buys $1.3M Ads and more...
8-Day Reports
A few nuggets from my first look at last night’s campaign finance filings…
MOScout Daily Update: Kelly Drops Leadership Bid - Childcare Gets Bipartisan Push - New Coatar Ad - Odd Bounces Ahead? and more...
Kelly Exits House Floor Race
Rep. Hannah Kelly announced that she was withdrawing from the House Floor Leader race.
MOScouty Sunday6: Midterm Turnout - Haunted Houses - Marijuana $$$ - Drought and more...
1. Haunted houses.
2. Midterm turnout.
3. Party identification.
4. Drought forecast
5. Obesity.
6. Monthly pot spend.
7-8. Annoying co-workers.
MOScout Weekender: Schmitt Leads by 9 - Fitz by 17 - Hallway Sees Bernskoetter as Floor Leader - SAPA Effect? and more...
Q1: What issue is most important to you?
Reducing crime: 18%
Reining in healthcare costs: 7%
Protecting abortion rights: 21%
Stopping illegal immigration: 15%
Tackling inflation: 22%
Something else: 9%
Not sure: 9%
MOScout Daily Update: New Page Ad - MOScout Predictions - Parson Shrugs - WaPo on Schmitt Ad and more...
MOIndy on Anti-A3’s Strange Bedfellows
The Missouri Independent has an article about the “ideologically scattershot constellation of organizations and elected officials that have come out of the woodwork in recent weeks to urge Missourians to reject a marijuana legalization proposal appearing on the Nov. 8 ballot as Amendment 3.”
MOScout Daily Update: Ashcroft No on A3 - New Hruza Ad - New Schmitt Ad - Police Against Page Ad - Prepping for the Next Epidemic and more...
Ashcroft Will Vote No on 3
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft told KSDK’s Mark Maxwell he’ll be voting No on the marijuana legalization question.
MOScout Daily Update: Parson on Shooting - Schmitt Invisible - Mantovani Ad - Safety App Stalls - $$$ to Senate 24 and more...
Parson on Shooting
In an interview with Emily Manley, Governor Mike Parson says any change in gun laws would be ineffective, and rather mental health services are the best bet to stop future school shootings.
MOScout Daily Update: School Shooting in STL - Political Impact - Parson Sends Prayers, But Will He Seize the Moment?
School Shooting in St. Louis
St. Louis was rocked yesterday by a school shooting.
MOScout Daily Update: GOP Optimism Rises - No Safe Space for Business - Jones No on A3 and more...
Republican Optimism Rises
Republicans are feeling that the momentum has shifted in their favor.Things reached a nadir a three or four months ago after the Dobbs decision.
MOScout Sunday6: Coming Teacher Shortage? - Healthcare Costs as a "Bridge" Issue? - Midwest Mistrust and more...
1. Congressional forecast.
2. Your vote doesn’t matter.
3. Issue strengths.
4. Healthcare costs as an issue.
5. Teachers in MO pipeline.
6. Gender of teachers.
7. Child poverty rates, by state.
8. Midwest mistrust.
9. Class identification.
MOScout Daily Update: Senate 24 Tightens - Hallway Sees McCreery Win - Page PAC Hits Mantovani - WWTW and more...
Page PAC Hits Mantovani on Political Contributions
A new ad from the pro-Sam Page PAC attacks Mark Mantovani as a “MAGA extremist,” citing his contributions to Eric Greitens and Rudy Guiliani.