On Monday, we reported that Nate Silver had colored Missouri a beautiful light blue in the Senate race. That still holds and he gives Jason Kander a 62% chance to unseat incumbent, Roy Blunt.
A new Emerson College poll has them tied at 44%.
I’ve heard reports that GOP internal polling has Blunt only +1 (and Trump collapsing to only +2)
Roll Call has made this the number one ranked Senate race in the country:
Democrats once considered Kander a good candidate who probably couldn’t come out on top in red-state Missouri. Now, they believe he’s their best candidate and are counting on him to win in November.
Operatives from both parties say the young secretary of state likely holds a small lead over the longtime politician Blunt, a remarkable development for a race that most analysts considered a second-tier contest when the summer began. And it’s mostly thanks to the strength of Kander, the rare post-Obama Democrat whose military background and familiarity with guns has appeal to culturally conservative voters. (His campaign ran what many consider the best TV ad of the election cycle that featured him assembling an AR-15 blindfolded.)
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