Claire McCaskill to skip Democratic National Convention

Source: Yahoo news

Sen. Claire McCaskill, vulnerable in her re-election bid, reportedly joined a growing faction of Democrats begging off this summer's Democratic National Convention.

The Missouri senator made the decision Tuesday to skip the national convention, which takes place Sept. 3-6, Pema Levy first reported for Talking Points Memo. The convention is where President Barack Obama will formally receive his party's nomination.

"In years when Claire is on the ballot, she has historically not gone to the convention," an anonymous aide told the news outlet, "because she believes it's important to stay in Missouri to talk to voters." Her campaign highlighted McCaskill's decision to skip the 2004 national convention.

When contacted by Yahoo News to confirm the report, campaign workers said all spokespersons were in a staff meeting and unavailable. The Associated Press has confirmed the report.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/claire-mccaskill-skip-democratic-national-convention-202046727.html

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If you're outside MO, send your $ to someone more progressive. Hope the people who ran Robin Carnahan's senate campaign aren't running Claire's. How many other battleground states (or states in play) have Dem senators up. She's probably to avoid being portrayed as rubber stamp like she portrayed Jim Talent as a Bush rubber stamp in the 06 election. Would Obama be targeting MO without Claire up for re-election, will he target if it's close in the fall, pulls haven't in MO haven't shown Mittens to be any more popular than Obama in MO, it appears both are hated there.