The annual Fat Tuesday procession was canceled this week because of inclement weather.

But Mardi Gras revelers weren’t the only to have it rain on their parade Tuesday.

Deadlines and lack of sleep have kept me from blogging this earlier, but there was quite a scene on election night at both the local Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gatherings.

It was a tale of two parties - both took turns playing winner and loser.

At the Clinton gathering at the Laclede Street Grill near SLU, supporters were ecstatic after the Associated Press, among others, called Missouri for Clinton.

There was State Rep. Rachel Storch - Clinton’s state director - being interviewed live by the local Fox affiliate, an interview that was being shown simultaneously on a wall-size projection screen at the bar.

Storch was, for a moment at least, larger than life.

But, as it turns out, the Obama campaign had them beat - both in the state’s primary, and in the size of their screen.

Local supporters of the Illinois senator were down the street at the Moolah Theatre, where CNN was being piped onto an enormous screen usually reserved for the latest cinema.

When the great “Missouri flip flop” broke, Obama supporters Brian Wahby, chair of the City Dems, and U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, (who’s staffer on Capitol Hill was celebrating a bit too much, it appears) broke out in a joyful gallop, heading to the front of the theater to address the crowd.

Kicking back at the bar were campaign volunteers enjoying the victory. In the final days leading up to Super Tuesday, several young Democratic workers took over Obama’s local field operation, making a push that proved to be decisive - Obama’s gains in the city and county helped him capture the state.

The group of workers included Rory Roundtree, who took time off from his day job as an aide to Aldermanic President Lewis Reed; political strategist Dave Chilenski; and Martin Casas, with the Young Democrats of St. Louis.

Of course, Super Tuesday ended without a clear-front runner, and while the campaign is done in Missouri, the fight for the Democratic nomination goes on. For sure, members of both camps will keeping watching those election returns, on screens big and small.