The editors at that other paper restate their endorsement of Steve Hobbs:

Hobbs role, including reforms to the teacher-insurance system, has not won him friends from traditional Democratic special-interest groups. That's the point.

Well hell, if the point is to not win friends with Democrats, shouldn't primary voters just cast their ballots for Republican John Koster? Isn't he the least-Democratic-friendly candidate of the bunch?

I mean, I think I know what they mean, but since the real contest on Tuesday is for which Democrat will face Koster in November, this does strike me as an oddly unpersuasive appeal to Democratic primary voters.