This is the final edition of Campaign Watch for the 2012 election cycle.  News Director Bob Priddy asks our commentators, Jo Mannies of the St. Louis Beacon (stlbeacon.org) and Steve Kraske of the Kansas City Star (kcstar.com)  to look at the red and blue spots on the Missouri maps and tell us what those colors tell us about Missouri’s political leanings.  We also ask them to read their tea leaves and project where we’ll be in November 2016. 

We have archived all of our discussions since beginning them in July as part the historical record of this campaign year.  Check the Campaign Watch archives for our discussions of the ebbs and flows of  the campaigns in Missouri.

AUDIO: Campaign Watch 24:00

The Presidential campaigns don’t seem to care much about Missouri this year.  Where have Missouri’s political parties been during the campaign?  And what should we expect to happen in the last week of the campaign?  Political columnists Jo Mannies of the St. Louis Beacon (stlbeacon.org) and Steve Kraske of the Kansas City Star (kcstar.com) talk about these issues in this week’s Campaign Watch    

    AUDIO: Campaign Watch 23:11

Missourinet news director Bob Priddy talks over Todd Akin’s campaign now that the deadline has passed and Akin has held to his promise not to leave the ticket by September 25th.  His guests this week are, as usual, Jo Mannies of the St. Louis Beacon (stlbeacon.org) and Steve Kraske of the Kansas City Star (kcstar.com).  They’ll talk about the campaign problems Akin has to face and the reasons Claire McCaskilll is spending a lot of time campaigning in rural Missouri.

AUDIO: Campaign Watch 16:26

On this week’s Campaign Watch, Missourinet News Director Bob Priddy talks with analysts Jo Mannies (stlbeacon.org) and Steve Kraske (kcstar.com), wrapping up the effects of the national political conventions on Missouri R’s and D’s, and looking at campaign finance reports filed  in Missouri while the convention in Charlotte was wrapping up.  

AUDIO: Campaign Watch 34:17