Who'll win MO GOP Primary for Governor? (Aug. 2)

[jamestroll]

In the Dem Senate Primary, Chief Wana Dubie got 10%

Greitens won. Koster vs. Greitens. It looks like a Tossup.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/republican-governors-race-tops-primary-contests-missouri-41078639

I am quite glad Greitens won the primary. I have always thought he would be the easiest one to beat for Koster. I am fairly confident in Koster's chances.

I do not live in the state currently, but my family and friends have complained how the four Republican candidates for governor were literally killing each other over the airwaves non stop. Hopefully, that can help Koster gain the advantage.

Fortunately this is all settled now, as this means we can finally get general election polling on MO-GOV and there are not constant hostile campaign commercials, that spill into Illinois and Kansas also.

Missouri may be a conservative state, but it is not overtly partisan by any means.  People as conservative as Akin have won statewide in less conservatives states (i.e. Ernst in  Iowa). Granted, 2012 and 2014 were different years though.

[JMT]

While I did think Brunner would win, I am not shocked that Greitens prevailed. I am surprised about the margin, though. It seemed like most polls showed a race within the margin of error, so to win the primary by about 10 points is pretty impressive.

Another interesting tidbit of information about this race that I found interesting is that Democrats just nominated a former Republican (Koster), while Republicans just nominated a former Democrat (Greitens). I thought that was an interesting thing.

[Kingpoleon]

I'm not surprised. Brunner won the area I was in and got over thirty percent in basically all the counties there, even the ones he lost.(Southwest Missouri)