Wait until she starts airing ads tying her 'Pub opponent to supporting Trump Trade policies against China targeting rural MO areas heavily dependent upon farming where the collapse of international agricultural commodity pricing led farmers to attempt to "export" their way out of the financial hole in the early 2010s, and are now at the front lines of a potential Trade War with China....
I suspect various local aspects on this theme are going to emerge as move towards November 2018.
Even though I tend to be a bit more "Protectionist" on Trade Policies than many, I thought it strange that in Nov 16 there were massive swings towards Trump in Farm Country" within the Grain Belt, considering his economic platform was one where smaller farmers would be inherently hit hard if he were to fulfill his economic policy platform (If you could call it that)....
Chickens will likely come home to roost in November in parts of the US most directly impacted by a reckless style of international trade negotiations....
Hmm... sounds like a fun project....
Would definitely look at the Dukakis '88 Counties in Northern MO (Many of them first time flips since FDR passed)...
Deal with MO is that there are so many rural counties heavily dependent upon agricultural commodities that are sold Domestically and to the International market.... so obviously hard to dissect in terms of a hypothetical Trade War with China....
When I was a Young Adult in Ohio back in the Early/Mid '90s that was more Corn/Soybean Country, heavily dependent upon smaller family farmers (Machine Intensive not Labor Intensive Agriculture), with the vast majority of their agricultural output for Grain/ Animal Feed products for Domestic Consumption.
The Global Collapse of agricultural commodity pricing, has led many American "Smaller Family Farmers", to try to export their way out of the crisis over the past 5-10 years...
MO is still definitely a State, where there are a significant % of Rural Voters, that could well swing Hard on this issue....
Not sure if anyone remembers about how Jimmy Carter's "Grain Embargo" after the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan played in the Great Plains in the 1980 PRES GE....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_grain_embargo_against_the_Soviet_UnionTrump's economic protectionist trade war against China might well have some positive developments when it comes to a short term repatriation of American Capitol Tax Holiday to the US (Trump's MNCs Tax Cuts), but the reality is this will lead to little or no investment in most parts of the United States...
MO is still essentially screwed as a Midwest State still heavily dependent upon Ag and MFG jobs not really coming back, outside of possibly changes in Metro Kansas City over the past few decades....
Problem is that although Obama in '08 got where MO was at, he wasn't able to deliver enough on the changes by the time it got to '12.
Now we have the 'Pubs in power in Washington, and MO is still screwed, and the DEM SEN has plenty of bullets in the clip on here ammo belt to show exactly how morally bankrupt the current Republican Government in Washington is,
and now they are messing with small family farmers?
