No wonder Robin was AWOL while the president was in Missouri this week. These numbers are terrible!

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Blunt leading Carnahan 47% to 41%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided. Those figures are little changed from a month ago.

Opposition to the health care plan is higher in Missouri than it is nationally. Just 37% of voters in the state approve of the plan working its way through Congress, while 60% oppose it. These numbers include 21% who Strongly Favor it and 51% who Strongly Oppose.

Thirty-three percent (33%) in Missouri rate Obama’s handling of health care reform as good or excellent. Fifty-three percent (53%) say he’s done a poor job.

Sixty percent (60%) of Missouri voters say it would be better to pass smaller health care bills that address individual problems rather than a comprehensive bill like the one currently under consideration. Only 26% think a comprehensive bill is a better idea. Read more…

And now she’s going to take a page from the Claire McCaskill playbook by foregoing earmarks if she’s elected. If Ms. Carnahan really believed in this, wouldn’t she have announced her intentions months ago – like when she started her campaign? Like clockwork, a desperate campaign resorts to rank populism to make up ground. Here’s a question the press will never ask Ms. Carnahan: How does Ms. Carnahan feel about the earmark that her brother the wind farmer received?

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