Shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the Hillary Clinton for president campaign sent its third and final list of eligible delegates to compete in tonight’s congressional district caucuses in Missouri. As outlined in yesterday’s post, the Clinton camp originally disqualified many of the delegates. Later, the camp sent a new list to the Missouri Democratic Party adding back many of the previously disqualified delegates and also offering up a list of 27 potential delegates that it said weren’t on the Missouri party’s list.

According to Missouri Democratic Party spokesman Jack Cardetti, the list provided by the Clinton camp included many names of people, including Missouri House Rep. Connie Johnson of the 61st District, who had been approved as delegates but hadn’t yet turned in the necessary paperwork to the state party.

The third list produced by the Clinton camp reinstated nearly all of the originally discounted delegates, Cardetti said.

Meanwhile, the Barack Obama camp approved all its delegates at the first try. So what’s at play here, other than the escalating war of words between Obama and Clinton? In Missouri, neither of the top two elected Democrats in the state, Attorney General Jay Nixon and state Auditor Susan Montee, are Clinton supporters. Montee has been on the Obama bandwagon early, and Nixon has said he’s remaining “aggressively neutral.” So many of the delegates with ties to either of those Missouri politicians were originally questioned by the Clinton camp, which is trying to make sure its pledged delegates have the sort of loyalty that can deal with a potential floor fight in Denver.

Of note, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, Republican John McCain is building a lead in the Show Me State.