In the 2018 midterms — which saw a major blue wave in the U.S. House of Representatives — Democrats were disappointed when then-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) was unseated by MAGA Republican Josh Hawley. Now, six years later, Sen. Hawley is running for reelection, and polls are showing him as the frontrunner. A Remington Research Poll found Hawley leading Democratic challenger Lance Kunce by 14 percent. And an Emerson College poll from June showed Hawley ahead by 9 percent. Those polls aren’t especially surprising, as Missouri is deeply Republican. The last Democrat to carry Missouri in a …