Hawley's campaing has finally started running ads, where up to this point it had all been outside groups pouring in against McCaskill. McCaskill's campaign has been on the air, unchallenged, since April.
I had a brief interaction with someone on one of the news websites that I frequent, who is convinced that Hawley will beat McCaskill. I told them that the polls have shown McCaskill in the lead, and that she has been working vigorously towards reelection. They however, countered by saying that Hawley hasn't been officially nominated and hasn't really started to campaign, and that McCaskill is doomed. That of course, seems to be a grave misinterpretation of that race.