Missouri virtually sure to give its electoral votes to McCain

The Kansas City Star ^ | November 19, 2008 | Dave Helling

[flattorney]

It looks like John McCain has won Missouri — the last state not marked in either red or blue on the electoral map. The Missouri secretary of state’s office said Tuesday night the Arizona Republican led President-elect Barack Obama by 4,355 votes out of 2,923,496 cast. Assuming the state certifies the count, it will place the overall electoral vote at 365 for Obama and 173 for McCain. The office said 3,159 provisional ballots remained to be added to those totals, but even if Obama won them all, McCain had a big enough margin to win the state’s 11 electoral votes. All of the state’s voting jurisdictions were required to certify their votes by Tuesday, but four of them — St. Louis County, St. Louis, and Jackson and Montgomery counties — had not provided totals by the close of business, the office said. State law allows counties to mail in their results, and the secretary of state expects the remaining totals sometime today. A spokesman said there is still a chance the four jurisdictions have uncounted ballots other than the provisionals, so the office did not declare a winner Tuesday. Obama can ask for a re-count, because the margin is less than 1 percentage point, but he appears unlikely to do so. The state must certify the results by early December, before the electors cast their votes for president.

[flattorney]

TAB

[goldstategop]

For the first time since 1956, Missouri did NOT go with the winner. Ironically, that year the state went for Adlai Stevenson. He came from Illinois.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[albie]

You can bet that if this were turned around for BO to get the 11 votes there would be recounts in EVERY state he lost. And they’d count until they won.

[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.

[SJSAMPLE]

I was holding out hope that Obama’s 0.6% margin of victory would tilt on final counting, and that Indiana would return to a RED state.

Damn.
Just, damn.

[avacado]

"For the first time since 1956, Missouri did NOT go with the winner..."

ACORN.

[goldstategop]

Even if Obama won ALL the provisional ballot (highly unlikely given the national vote split) McCain still has enough of a lead to gain MO. The Show Me state folks weren't sold on Obama and for the the third successive presidential election since 2000 its turned Red.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[listenhillary]

ACORN caused McCain to win MO? Cool!

[avacado]

"ACORN caused McCain to win MO? Cool!'

I wasn't suggesting that at all. I was implying that Obama won via ACORN, hence Missouri didn't pick the winner because Missouri didn't factor in ACORN.

[listenhillary]

Got it.

[CottonBall]

Looks like MO is off in the first time in a century or something like that.

[thesetruths]

But Vigo County, Indiana wasn’t. Kinda weird.

[ScottinVA]

“I was holding out hope that Obama’s 0.6% margin of victory would tilt on final counting, and that Indiana would return to a RED state.”

Ditto for NC.

[TYVets]

,,,I was implying that Obama won via ACORN, hence Missouri didn't pick the winner because Missouri didn't factor in ACORN.

We always factor in the votes of the dead from St Louis here in Missouri.

McCain wins Missouri?

A low turn out of deceased voters!

[Jen]

No, Missouri got it right. All the blue states got it wrong.

[Ben Hecks]

Six counties in Southwest Missouri went McCain by an average of 65.45 percent. We proudly denied Hussein 11 electoral votes.

[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.

[Norman Bates]

We’ll win both of those states back next time. Obama ran in a perfect storm cycle.

[Norman Bates]

Is Missouri like to pick up an EV after the 2010 census?

[montag813]

Every time I hear McCain’s name it’s like the knife being twisted. I despise this man.