Messenger: Voting in the Age of Trump, when 'policy differences don't matter' By Tony Messenger St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018 Updated Jun 29, 2023 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save From the moment it came on television, I hated the game show “Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?”kAmp?J3@5J H9@ 92D 6G6C EC:65 E@ 96=A E96:C <:5D H:E9 “?6H >2E9” 2?5 E96? ?6H[ ?6H >2E9[ @C H92E6G6C E96 964< E96J’C6 42==:?8 :E E96D6 52JD[ <?@HD H92E x >62?]k^AmkAmqFE E96C6 H2D D@>6 86?:FD :? 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Messenger: Hawley needs refresher course on what happens in a ‘normal courtroom’ His brief stint as Missouri attorney general provides a guide to his real-world experience.
Messenger: Fifty years after Danforth revived the Missouri GOP, the script has been flipped Fifty years ago, in a much different Missouri, Danforth won his first election to become the only statewide elected Republican. Now Nicole Gal…
