Stunning Democratic victory offers lessons in local political scenes

Monday, February 13, 2006

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A campaign flier showed him pushing a big round bale of hay past an onlooking cow. His red-and-white signs featured farm animals -- a horse, sheep and pig -- absent the Democratic Party donkey.

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