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Posted on 07/07/2010 4:46:37 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For some in President Obama’s White House, Missouri remains the state that got away, nearly two years after his election.
Mr. Obama was the first Democrat since 1964 to win Indiana and the first since 1976 to win North Carolina. But his loss in Missouri by the narrowest of slivers (fewer than 4,000 votes) was of special disappointment.
After all, the state has sided with the winner of the presidential race in nearly every election in the past century. Who would wish to be remembered for breaking that sort of trend?
Now, even as President Obama juggles a barrage of dire matters, relatively calm Missouri seems to continue to carry some particular attention for the White House. This week, Mr. Obama will be in the state again, raising money in a competitive Senate campaign in a challenging political season for Democrats.
It will be Mr. Obama’s fifth trip here since his election. White House officials say the president has traveled to other swing states nearly as often, but there may be no state he lost that has seen more of him (aside from Louisiana, thanks to the oil spill disaster.)
Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat who won his first term as Mr. Obama lost here and was the state’s longtime attorney general, said he senses strong interest in the state, in part because of the memory of that slim loss in 2008.
“It intrigues him,” Governor Nixon said last month, ticking off by memory the visits Mr. Obama has made. “I think the complexity of the state intrigues him, too, as a microcosm of the country.”
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Ping!
The never ending Presidential campaign....
Perhaps Obama is going there to let Missouri know he is going to sue them for their immigration laws as well.
So, will he win IN, OH, FL, NC, VA in 2012? With the independent and some democrats deserting him, will there be enough votes to win in those states?
He won't. His handlers will choose a friendlier route for His Exalted Majesty to travel.
He’s here to campaign for Carnihan, I sure hope that is the seal of failure for her.
Whatever they fall short in Missouri can easily be created by voter fraud. Remember when Carnihan was elected?
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