Carnahan public legacy to end in January? : Stltoday

Carnahan public legacy to end in January? : Stltoday

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Given the state's increasingly Republican leanings and the thrashings the siblings have taken at the polls recently — Robin Carnahan lost the U.S. Senate race to Republican Roy Blunt in 2010 — is the family tradition nearing an end?

Though the Carnahans demur, others say the answer is yes, at least for the foreseeable future.
"It's difficult to see how you would resurrect yourself from the back-to-back defeat of Robin Carnahan by such a sizable margin and the defeat of Russ Carnahan by an even more sizable margin," said Terry Jones, a political science professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Even if the Carnahans tried again, other Democratic candidates would be unlikely to defer to them and could consider it time for a new face, Jones added.

The Carnahans themselves don't rule out a comeback.