So, who're the conservative traitors in MO?

[ConservativeTeacherInTraining]

I hope every Conservative who complained about the Republican Party is happy. Congratulations, unless the military vote changes things somehow, the House just went to the Democrats.

[kinoxi]

Good question.

[beaversmom]

How many votes did the Libertarian get?

[spikeytx86]

I don't know who the independent is in Virginia but if it is a center right indie his votes may have been enough for Allen.

[rrrod]

The GOP voters and conservative base has been stabbed in the back by the RINOS in congress for several years now...put the blame where it belongs. Unfortunately we lost a lot of good folks in this election. The blame is on the spineless leadership not the voter base.

[diesel00]

I don't know who the independent is in Virginia but if it is a center right indie his votes may have been enough for Allen.

The independent with 20k+ votes in Virginia is a Green (far left).

[Majic]

You don't win elections by pushing people away.

[WOSG]

Stabbing a conservative in the back on election - like Allen or Talent - because there are RINOs in the Senate makes no sense.

[mc6809e]

Who were the Conservative traitors who chose to throw their vote away and vote for the libertarian candidate?

Didn't you get the memo? The Republican party doesn't need the libertarian vote.

The more socially conservative members of FreeRepublic told me so.

[Echo Talon]

Thank Michael Savage.

[CarmichaelPatriot]

I agree. The blame lays primarily at the feet of the Senate Republican leadership. Their position on illegal immigration, the drunken sailor spending and their bending over for lobbyists alienated them from the conservative base.

Frist is now dead as a potential Presidential candidate in 2008, as is Allen.

[PhiKapMom]

We need more like our Dr. Coburn from OK who is not afraid to stand up and be counted along with our Senator Inhofe. Spineless leaders we do not need! I have had enough of kumbyya to last a lifetime!

[beaversmom]

Frank Gilmour is the Lib candidate--received 46,814 votes.

[beaversmom]

Amendment 2 (Stem Cell Initiative) is up by 28,464.

[beaversmom]

Results from Missouri

http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/

[kinoxi]

Your post #7 is absolutely correct.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Looks like the Show Me boys wanted it in their constitution that we should be cloning people huh?

[spikeytx86]

Ahh that answers that. Thank you!

[sten]

i hope the lame-duck republicans are happy that they did not listen to their base and kept spending like drunken sailors. how they didn't listen on the issue of illegals or offshoring. how they didn't hold the dems accountable for faulty/exagerated news reporting (katrina).

people try to say its iraq. but with "only" 3,000 US military deaths, that is not much in the normal context of war. years and years of harping by the press didn't help. but in the end, the voters didn't like being ignored on the issues impacting locally (offshoring, illegals, spending).

don't get me wrong, i don't believe the dems will be better.. i just think people voted for change more then anything else. (another result of non-stop advertisement via tv)

[MissouriConservative]

Claire McCaskill Democrat 923,585 (49%)
Jim Talent (i) Republican 898,444 (48%)
Frank Gilmour Libertarian 43,592 (2%)
Lydia Lewis Progressive 16,570 (1%)

The Libertarian took enough votes to put Talent over the top. That is a lot of votes for a candidate who had a snowball's chance in hell of winning. 43,592 wasted votes. Need to start calling it the "Perot" effect.