![]() ![]() The newspaper trashes multi-millionaire Brunner for trying buy the nomination, and it basically calls Steelman a political lightweight.Īkin seems to have won the Post's endorsement by default. You know what you are getting with Akin? Something that the newspaper apparently could not bring itself to say about Akin's opponents, John Brunner and Sarah Steelman. The newspaper concluded that he really believes the stuff he says. In the tight battle for the Republican nomination for Senate, the Post gave its nod to Akin, not because its editorial board agreed with anything he said the day he met with its representatives or because of his actions while serving as a Congressman. ![]() Louis American that the Post editorial board has no African-Americans and no credibility, as a result. Whether or not Carnahan’s endorsement from the city’s lone daily newspaper carries any weight will be hard to judge, especially if Clay does retain his seat, which is almost guaranteed if he wins the primary.Ĭlay responded to the Post’s choice by telling the St. In a true lesser-of-two-evils approach to its endorsement, the Post sided with Carnahan but included a list of reservations-enough to make you consider a Republican candidate in the general election, quite frankly.Ī Democratic operative not involved with either campaign tells me that tracking polls have Clay comfortably ahead in the primary. When Mayor Francis Slay runs for yet another term in spring 2013, we’ll see if that last-name stigma is still part of the newspaper’s political judgment. What was more disturbing is the fact that the endorsement hinted that both were there because of their last names, not because they truly earned their seats in Congress. The newspaper wrote a stinging review of Carnahan's and Clay’s years in Congress, basically saying that neither has done anything too impressive in Washington, D.C. ![]() Two in particular stand out: the newspaper’s respective endorsements of Democrat Russ Carnahan for the 1st Congressional District, and Republican Todd Akin for the Republican nomination for Senate. Louis Post-Dispatch endorsements for the August 7 primary. Readers are left with that impression after perusing several of the St. We’ve all heard the saying, “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” ![]()
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