Chris Koster’s path to November election seems clear, but some wonder if he’s in right primary [View all]

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Source: Kansas City Star

To have a party’s standard bearer on the opposite side of his base on two of the year’s most high-profile partisan fights is unusual in and of itself.

Even more so is the fact that Koster — who joined the Democratic Party only nine years ago — managed to avoid a real primary fight the same year his party’s presidential nominee was forced to stave off a vigorous challenge from her left.

But in the long term, Koster’s nomination means Missouri politics looks to be taking a conservative turn on a host of issues, regardless of which party replaces Nixon.

“It’s important for a lot of people that the office remain in the hands of a Democrat,” said Alison Dreith, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri. “But we’re a nonpartisan organization, and I have real concerns whether he’ll be even more conservative than Jay Nixon.”


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Governor appears to be a dead end job in Missouri politics, no progressive Dem wants the job where vetos get overridden