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11.19.2008 2:38 pm

Missouri officially a red state — but barely

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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This just in from the Associated Press:

Republican John McCain has defeated President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri _ the last state to be decided in the 2008 presidential election.
McCain’s narrow victory over Obama breaks a bellwether streak in which Missourians had picked the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1956.
With all jurisdictions reporting complete but unofficial results, McCain led Obama by 3,632 votes Wednesday out of more than 2.9 million cast _ a margin of 0.12 percentage points.

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— Ms STL - I like your response. I’d like to ad in 2008 the information age why did it take 5-8 hours to vote in some areas and 30 mins in others? One can go online and find out how many voters are register in a certain area so why was an area with (example) 2K voters sent 1K paper ballots and as few as 3 machines? It’s cheaper to print paper and it could be used in a pinch should the machines fail? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out. Voting for some in our community is still not a right. We have a long way to go for freedom. Someone should loose their job over this. Oh but this didn’t happen in Chesterfield or Clayton who cares right?!?!

— PAC
4:34 pm November 19th, 2008

What an embarrassment. Thanks to all the rural voters who also attended the Palin/McCain rally’s. You remember them, they included hate mongering, race baiting, and of course, Hank Williams Jr. Ya’ll dun yurself proud.

— Bret
4:34 pm November 19th, 2008

Okay - so if socialism is ANY step towards collecting taxes and using that money for various social purposes AND, political science tells us that the opposite of socialism is fascism…. then
- we’ve been this “socialist” for a long time and
- the Republicans are fascists

Okay -I can accept with that.

— M
4:35 pm November 19th, 2008

What an embarrassment. Thanks to all of the rural voters that also attended the McCain/Palin rally’s. You remember those don’t you? They featured race baiting, fear mongering, and of course Hank Williams Jr.
Ya’ll dun yurself proud. Good grief.

— Bret
4:37 pm November 19th, 2008

Jay Nixon wins by a landslide/Barack Obama loses. It seems out-state Missouri refused to vote for a African-American. I would guess that when some visit St. Louis and get passed on the shoulder, see all of this litter, hear constant gunshots and have something stolen from them they assume all blacks are like this. I wish they could see that we elected the proper direction for this country to head in and not just an African-American.

— dunnerstall
4:41 pm November 19th, 2008

OBAMA STILL WON. To all those losers that voted for McSame.

— miguel
4:44 pm November 19th, 2008

Thankfully, Missouri remains almost halfway intelligent.

Of course, the constant drool from these moronic liberal Democrats is actually kind of amusing. Your lack of understanding..your lack of intellect is, ironically, stunningly profound. Would you like to see a few more of your type?

go to: http://www.howobamagotelected.com

watch closely, you will be looking at yourself.

— conrwing
4:45 pm November 19th, 2008

Obama won the election but at least he didn’t win Missouri. Obama’s deceitful practices didn’t fool the majority of Missourians. They don’t call us the SHOW ME State for nothing.

— Jonah
4:53 pm November 19th, 2008

This is quite a shame to see people assuming others are backwards or racist based upon their vote in this election. For some yes there were race matters involved in their decision, but to make such a general statement is not responsable. The quotes regarding extreme right wing Christians is also out of line, I know many evangelicals that did not vote in this election due to Obama being a Pro-Choice canadiate and McCain’s wife owning one of the largest distributorships of acohol in the country, both of which are against their religion. No matter who you voted for, you should be proud that the system still works and so many were involved, a large amount for the first time ever! Now we must all stand behind the man that has been chosen, not matter if you voted for him or not, and hope that he is a strong leader and does not put us in the weak position of so many other countries. He must defend and protect our country, both economically and through military force. I hope that when he acts just as any other poltician with his policies and back peddling it does not disenfranchise all of the first time voters in this election. They must understand that their voice still should be heard. Even if I do not agree with it.

— icallks
4:59 pm November 19th, 2008

Yay! This just goes to show you that a black Democrat can’t win statewide in a Southern-thinking state.

— Republican in Missouri
5:02 pm November 19th, 2008

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