There was a wholly and entirely meaningless special election on Tuesday, in the state of Missouri.  A Heavily Republican district, not contested seriously by the Democrats.  So we get this headline, and quip, from the National Review blog.

Republican Ekes Out 40-Point Win in Missouri Special Election

This is what happens when national Democrats pretend a special U.S. House election isn’t happening: Republican Jason Smith wins 67 percent to 27 percent over Democrat Steve Hodges, 42,145 votes to 17,203 votes. Yes, it’s a conservative district, but this is a bigger margin than Romney’s win over Obama in 2012 in that district.

The strategists over at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee didn’t merely choose to not allocate any funds to help Hodges; they didn’t even mention the special election on their web site, Twitter account, or Facebook page.

I like the commenter that points out that the Weekly Standard and Human Events didn’t bother to report this story either.  Almost as much fun as the modest effort by the National Review columnist to point to the six or eight point margin of improvement over Romney as being… something.

More details on the contours of this election race.

National Democratic groups, viewing the 32-year-old Smith as the front-runner, provided Hodges with minimal assistance. Hodges billed himself as a conservative Democrat, promoting his anti-abortion and anti-gun control views.

Nonetheless, into the depths of commentland.

This was a slaughter of the Obama donkey!!! Smith will garner 69% of the vote and the Obamabot Democrat will get 26% of the vote. Worse then those numbers, is the remaining, outstanding votes were cast for a “constitution” candidate, meaning the good guys carried almost 73% of the vote!!! Ms. Emerson, the resigned candidate was a GOP moderate!!! Mr. Smith is a true Conservative Republican. Democrats, hang with Obama & beware of upcoming mid-term elections in 2014 with the Obama scandals tied around your necks!!!

(Blink.)  (Rub eyes.)  (Blink.)  Huh indeed.

Wait.  More comedy gold here.

Blocking the Democrats from enacting legislation that would end life as we know it is not “doing nothing”.

I guess the most interesting thing here is to stare at the third party candidates and see if we have anything to note.

The Constitution Party nominee, Doug Enyart, is at 3.6%. While that is not an especially strong showing, it is easily the best showing for U.S. House that the Constitution Party has ever made in Missouri. Until this election, the party had never hit as much as 2% for any of its U.S. House candidates in Missouri.

Not noted, even though his candidacy did about as well against the Constitution Candidate as the Democratic candidate did agains the Republican.
Bill Slantz  Libertarian  968  1.5%

What accounts for Doug Enyart’s landslide victory over Bill Slantz?

Also worth noting these write-in candidacies… none of whom got into three digits… and in one case didn’t even get a vote.  But this does beg the question…

Thomas Brown … 85 …
Theo (Ted) Brown, Sr. … 0

Is this the same person, counted twice for some reason?

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