Missouri officially a red state — but barely
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.


Political editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
— 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?!?!