Posted on 11/19/2008 2:32:46 PM PST by Chet 99
Updated: 11/19/08 03:20 PM
McCain wins Missouri in close race against Obama
The Associated Press
Republican John McCain has defeated President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri - the last state to be decided in the 2008 presidential election.
McCain's narrow victory over Obama breaks a bellwether streak in which Missourians had picked the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1956.
With all jurisdictions reporting complete but unofficial results, McCain led Obama by 3,632 votes Wednesday out of more than 2.9 million cast - a margin of 0.12 percentage points.
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This is the only contested battleground won by McCain. Missouri seems to continue its Republican trend.
So is it time to call the missouri bellwhether dead?
It sure makes me feel better that McDole took Missouri.
I am proud to live in “The Show Me State”
I think it is time we called it the “Show Me” state.
Was it Missouri that was the bellweather state with the longest record? i.e. no President had been elected without winning Missouri since ?.
Yes. The last time Missouri was “wrong” was in 1956, I think because it was Adlai Stevenson’s home state.
“McDole”
Love it!
ping
So the final numbers will be 365 Electoral votes for Obama to 173 for McCain.
53% of the popular vote for Obama and 46% for McCain.
66.8 million votes for Obama and 58.3 million for McCain.
Dems crying about voter fraud in MO in 3....2....1.....
“Was it Missouri that was the bellweather state with the longest record? i.e. no President had been elected without winning Missouri since ?.”
“Yes. The last time Missouri was “wrong” was in 1956, I think because it was Adlai Stevenson’s home state.”
Nice to know! Maybe, just maybe Obama WILL NOT be sworn in on January 20th after all! Waiting on the Supreme Court decisions!! And if they rule according to our Constitution McCain would not be sworn in either since neither of them are “natural born” U.S. citizens!
Looks like the Republican voters outnumbered the ACORN voters.
The saddest part is that despite this being an election in which the GOP could not possibly win it, they could have. But for the timing of the crash, McCain’s ham-handed posturing and refusal to fight for the country with the smash face Chicago style politics he was facing, he could have pulled it off with Sarah. He chose, however, to leave the red meat in the freezer box. Despite the presstitutes’ mantra, Obama did not turn out the new voters or excite the rest as advertised. For example, Obama got 40,000 less votes than Kerry in 2004 in Ohio, winning the state by 200,000. Alas, McCain got 300,000 less votes in Ohio than George W. Bush did in 2004. *sigh*
At least Senator Dole had the temerity and the balls to resign before being beaten by the “Stainmeister!”
And that's that for the 2008 Presidential election. Not good.
So seven percent of this nation are morons, enough said...
sorry, I meant 53 per cent are morons, thank God the rest of us are sane!
Having my after dinner glass of wine, that is the only way I will be able to survive the next four years...
I know people in Missouri—there was no way Missouri would have gone to Obama. The only state bordering on Illinois that didn’t go Obama. There were no signs, electioneering, etc. at the polls on election day in Illinois. I figured they were all over in northwest Indiana. I guess they ran out of manpower this time to swing Missouri for the Dems.
Well! We delivered. Whatsa’ matter with the rest of you pikers?
No, he was from Illinois. I can’t claim responsibility for that one. I was seven years old.
And, that’s with a guy most of us held our tongue and noses to vote for.
AND ACORN!
McCain was 97 electoral votes away for 270 needed to win. If Obama was disqualified, wouldn’t the states that went for Obama have the right to allow their electors to vote as they pleased and not straight party line? Appears to me that there might just be a chance that some would defect and give just enough votes to McCain. This would be HISTORICAL!!!
McCain was 97 electoral votes away for 270 needed to win. If Obama was disqualified, wouldn’t the states that went for Obama have the right to allow their electors to vote as they pleased and not straight party line? Appears to me that there might just be a chance that some would defect and give just enough votes to McCain. This would be HISTORICAL!!!
Maybe revenge for lying to them about the "Change" he said he would bring to his administration. Just look at the line up so far. With things happening in this election that I have NEVER seen before, I don't take anything for granted.
Always liked Missouri and found the people there to be friendly and the countryside beautiful.
If I ever get to retire, I hope I can retire in the Ozarks.
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