[wideawake]

MO has approximately 750,000 African-American citizens - a demographic group which enjoyed a level of registration and electoral participation in 2008 that it will likely never see again.

And Obama still lost the state.

[MooseChic]

One of the main reasons Obama won this election is by New Voter Registrations. If you look at Florida, North Carolina and Nevada it is obvious. He won Florida by a mere 200,000 votes. But, the registrations at Miami Dade,Orange and Osceola county itself amounts to more than 200,000. It is amazing that even after spending almost 100 million dollars in Florida alone, most of the counties remained red steadfast. Three of the big counties Palm Beach, Broward and Hillsborough have almost the same numbers compared to 2004. Obama’s barrage of ads did nothing to sway the voters here. Same story with North Carolina. Obama won by just 14,000 votes. But the increase in votes in McKlenburg county is 85,000 and Wake county is 78,000 over 2004. Nevada is almost shocking and embarrassing. In Clark county (Las Vegas city is here), he got almost 100,000 new votes many of them being fraudulent ACORN votes. GOP should start a new registration drive right now and slowly build up the base in four years. It is mind boggling how the Pubs missed this simple strategy. Just by new registrations, they would have got 50 EVs more.

[berkley]

Catholics carried MO for McCain, which didn’t happen across the nation. I credit Bishops Finn and Hermann for their strong stance against the baby killing Obama.