Missouri loses its bragging rights by bucking its own trend

[pstokely]

Source: KC Star

Missouri loses its bragging rights by bucking its own trend
By STEVE KRASKE and DAVE HELLING
The Kansas City Star

Ask not how the bellwether Missouri totaled its votes.

The state has blown — oh, so narrowly — its much vaunted presidential picking reputation.

Unofficial results Wednesday showed John McCain with a 5,868-vote margin in the state — a lead that could narrow as final results are tallied and some 7,000 provisional ballots are examined.

Few observers, though, think the outcome will change. Expect Missouri’s 11 electoral votes go to the Republican amid a national landslide for Barack Obama.

But new history has been written.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/772/story/877175.html

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No matter what, it's still a purple state

[99th_Monkey]

1. Ooopsie!! Bellweather status at risk much? Awww. ~nt~

[Sherman A1]

2. Thank Goodness the election does not hang in the balance

My state may go to McCain by a narrow margin, but at least we are not changing the results of the overall election.

[stlsaxman]

3. i'm surprised and encouraged that it was so close-

Missouri has always been a red state. "bellwether" my butt.

sure- i would have been proud and amazed if we went blue.

but hey- this is Missouri we're talking about here.

[blur256]

4. I agree

I would love to see my state turn blue, but we are probably reaching here. I stayed up late Tuesday night waiting to see how it would turn out here in Missouri, but finally gave up. I was very hopeful when they were still waiting to count St. Louis and Clay county. Good job St. Louis, but Clay county, seriously? What happened up there? I'm glad that overall it was close, though. And the only reason that I still care is not because of the bellwether crap, but because I would love to hear the uproar here in Southwest MO. Believe it or not, there are Democrats down here! :hi:

[Demit]

5. Welcome to DU!

LOL, you took awhile to make your first post, but it's a good time to choose!

[stlsaxman]

6. Welcome to DU!!! I was looking at the MO map on CNNdotcom and noticed Clay

County and it was blue in a sea of red!

Hope you find a nice home here at DU, blur256. I've been on here since Bush's theft of the white house in '00... believe me- it's been a loooooooong ride. But it's a different day- way different now! I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't call it Democratic ABOVEground now! heheheh

:patriot:

[blur256]

14. I think I might be confused...

I went back and looked at Clay county because I could have sworn it was a red county. And according to CNN, it was but only by 1%. Jackson county was blue by I think 23% difference. I could be misreading it though. And thanks for all the warm welcomes! I have been coming to this website for a long time but for some reason just decided it was time post. And definitely it is Democratic ABOVEground now! :)

[iris27]

8. went for clinton twice, and 12 years of uninterrupted Dem governorship

before Blunt = always a red state?

sure.

[pstokely]

9. a redish-purple state

has been has the last 20 years

[No Elephants]

13. If Nader had not run, Missouri might have gone blue. Correction: If people had not voted for

Nader, Missouri very well might have gone blue.

[gratuitous]

7. Missouri went for McCain?

From the Show Me State to the Blow Me State.

[Veronica.Franco]

10. Ralph Nader was the spoiler in Missouri ...

Why anyone wasted their vote on that bitter old COOT is beyond me ...

[MadHound]

11. Not the full story here

Actually it's more like 17,000 provisional votes out there, from urban St. Louis and urban KC, along with absentees that need to be counted. There's actually a good chance that Missouri will still go blue. We just won't know for a couple of weeks.

That being said, what the hell went on in St. Charles County? That was supposed to go for Obama, like everything else surrounding St. Louis. I can, sort of, understand why Jackson County didn't go for Obama, the suburbs around KC are redneck hell, though I actually thought we had a chance in Jackson. But St. Charles? C'mon, that place was wired on a block by block basis, and should have gone to Obama. I wonder:think:

But we'll see here in a couple of weeks, don't count us red yet.

[pstokely]

12. Jackson County went Blue, St Charles county was less red

compared to 2004