kansas city and st. louis, as you point out. claire mccaskill a democrat, jay nixon, the governor, a democrat. but it has to be a specific kind of democrat. it has to be what we used to call a law and order democrat, a conservative social democrat. claire is like that, jay is like that. that s how you succeed as a democrat statewide in missouri. and you can t have any association with st. louis. is that still a sort of a mark on you as a democrat? the more st. louis you re associated with, the less shot you have statewide, that it s better to be kansas city, if anything else, like claire? but even kansas city is not really a guarantor of anything, because like a lot of states, chuck, missouri is split between urban and rural more than it is republican and democrat. and so if you re going to succeed like claire mccaskill, you have to make an appeal to rural and largely suburban voters as well. that s what she was successful at. that s what democrats have to do to win in this state