McCaskill launches rural Missouri town hall meetings in bid to stake out the middle

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7. I am no fan of Claire McCaskill BUT

I beg those of you white folks who call yourself part of the base of our party to do more than you ever thought you could to get her elected. She needs YOUR support more than you can even imagine. She needs YOUR voices more than you can imagine. More than any other race in the country, this one will be determined by whether we can actually win in the suburbs with centrist messaging.

We will not win based on huge turnouts in St. Louis and Kansas City. Yes, Senator McCaskill will get 90% and more of our votes and I look like I will be maxing out my contributions to help, but her support in our community is paper thin and turnout in urban areas will be even worse, way worse, than it was in 2016.

Claire McCaskill was a strong supporter of Robert McCulloch, the Ferguson prosecutor. She denigrated RIGHTEOUS community anger after Michael Brown's murder by calling everyone who was not "peaceful" in the face of open aggression by law enforcement an "outside agitator (no whistle there)" She refused to condemn the grand jury whitewash.

She is strong for the most part on the Democratic issues that play well in the suburbs . . . gun control, choice, voting, education, gender equality and we need to keep her in the Senate at all costs.

But it won't come on the backs of St. Louis and Kansas City.

Ferguson remembers