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MISSOURI |
Nov. 2,
2010 U.S. Senate |
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Plurality: 264,424 votes (13.60 percentage points). MO Secretary of State
Notes: Sen. Kit Bond (R) announced on Jan. 8, 2009 that he would not run for a fifth term. U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt (R) defeated Sec. of State Robin Carnahan (D) as well as Jonathan Dine (L) and Jerry Beck (C) to keep the seat in the Republican column. The major party primaries on Aug. 3 were both very lopsided. On the Republican side, Blunt topped the field of nine candidates with 411,040 votes (70.9%); his nearest competitor was state Sen. Chuck Purgason at 75,663 votes (13.1%) and all others were in single digits. In the Democratic primary, Carnahan obtained 266,349 votes (83.9%) to defeat Richard Charles Tolbert at 33,731 votes (10.6%) and Francis J. Vangeli at 17,511 votes (5.5%). The third party primaries were more competitive; Dine won 58.6% of the 3,529 votes tallied in the Libertarian primary and Beck won 43.5% of the 1,884 votes tallied in the Constitution Party primary. Blunt was serving his seventh term in Congress representing the 7th CD; he was first elected in 1996 and rose to leadership as Majority Whip from Jan. 2003-Jan. 2009, as well as a stint as acting House Majority Leader. He previously served almost four years as president of Southwest Baptist University; ran for governor in 1992, finishing second in the Republican primary; was elected to two terms as Secretary of State, in 1984 and 1988; was the 1980 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor; and served 12 years as Greene County Clerk, a position to which he was appointed to in 1973. Carnahan was elected to two terms as Secretary of State, in 2004 and 2008, and was the daughter of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan and his wife Jean Carnahan, who served as the appointed U.S. Senator in 2001-02 following her husband's death in a plane crash. Blunt and Carnahan debated two times: at Kansas City Public Television (KCPT) studios on Oct. 14 (>); and at the Missouri Press Association convention at The Lodge of the Four Seasons at Lake Ozark on Oct. 15. Spending by the Blunt and Carnahan campaigns was competitive; Open Secrets reported the Blunt campaign spent $12.1 miilion compared to $10.3 million by the Carnahan campaign; in addition outside groups spent a total of $13.5 million split roughly evenly (>). Campaign Managers: Roy Blunt: Andy Blunt Son of Roy Blunt. Lobbyist; founding partner (2002) of the law firm Schreimann, Rackers, Francka & Blunt, LLC. Blunt managed Matt Blunt's campaigns for governor (2004) and secretary of state (2000). J.D. from University of Missuri in Columbia; B.S. degree from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar. Born in Springfield, MO. Robin Carnahan: Mindy Mazur (Apr. 2009) Missouri state director for America Votes, Apr. 2008-May 2009. Chief of staff to Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, Nov. 2004-Mar. 2008. Campaigvn manager on Robin Carnahan for Secretary of State, Mar.-Nov. 2004. Oklahoma regional field direcgtor on Dick Gephardt for President, Oct. 2003-Jan. 2004. Legislative assistant, legislative correspondent, staff assistant to U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, June 1999-Oct. 2003; also campaign coordinator on Skelton's 2002 re-election, Aug.-Nov. 2002. M.A. in political management from The George Washington University, 2003; B.A. in communications from University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999 |
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