The big political news here in Missouri is that Claire McCaskill is running for the Senate against Jim Talent. Needless to say, there are different viewpoints on the matter: pro and con. I have to admit that I like both Talent and McCaskill, but I expect I’ll be voting for Jim come election time. Hopefully Claire won’t try to connect with rural voters by blazing away with a shotgun like Jean Carnahan – forcing Jim to tout how he likes to fish which then led to fishing-licence-gate one of the stupider so called scandals in Missouri. And hopefully Claire will pick a better color scheme than the one she used against Blunt. I find McCaskill a much stronger candidate than Jean Carnahan, but I don’t know if my fellow Missourians agree with me. We did elect Matt Blunt, after all.