Obama gains on McCain in St. Louis County’s rerun of numbers
Missouri’s presidential results got 699 votes tighter — without those as-yet-uncounted provisional ballots — after St. Louis County completed a new final tally of its votes in Tuesday’s election.
Political Fix got a copy of those tallies, including the township-by-township breakdown, this morning.
The county is the state’s largest voting bloc, and had thousands of voting machines and optical scanners in use. After retallying all the machines, and rechecking the scanners, the county’s final results changed.
The county also included some military ballots that apparently didn’t get counted Tuesday night.
The new county totals have yet to be reported to the secretary of state’s office.
The upshot in the presidential contest’s new official final numbers from St. Louis County:
Democrat Barack Obama-Joe Biden – 332,085 (up 1,928 from election night number now on state elections Web site)
Republican John McCain-Sarah Palin – 221,016 (up 1,229 from election night number)
The third-party candidates all gained a few as well.
The new county results reduces McCain’s statewide edge to 5,160 votes (from the 5,859 now on state Web site.)
Elections officials all over the state are just now going through roughly 7,000 provisional ballots that are not included in the statewide tally, until it can be verified which of those ballots were cast by properly registered voters at the right polling place.
The real story of the new St. Louis County numbers is that Jim Lembke more than doubled his margin over Joan Barry in the 1st state senate race (now 119 votes; was 56). Going to be harder for her to make this up, even with 260 provisionals to be checked (which may already be in this updated count). Normally only about 40% of provisionals are counted. Even if Barry won all of them (104), she’d still lose by 15 votes.
With these new numbers, why hasn’t the SoS updated her website? (it still shows a 56 vote margin)
To Numbers matter.
Exactly. The tightening of that state senate race is news. It should be reported. In fact, all votes should be reported. Since I live in that district, the outcome of that election will mean something to me. The presidential election is over and the outcome has been determined.
Instead of calling rural voters names, why not look at how they have voted in the past?
They didn’t vote for Al Gore or John Kerry either. And I suspect any votes Bill Clinton got came from him being from the neighboring state of Arkansas.
All I really want is for all votes to be counted fairly and reported fairly. And I wish President-Elect Obama all the best. Our country needs him to do the best job possible, as soon as possible. I truly mean that, and yes, I voted for John McCain.
Lots of effort on this recount which is meaningless. It is a shame that something as incredibly important as the US Constitution is ignored. We still do not know if Obama is eligible for the office. Don’t you think that is important?
I live in Very rural Miller County. I canvassed hard for Our President Elect and I found many, many supporters for Obama. Sadly, I also found that the smear and fear tactics via TV commercials the last week of the campaign worked for the Divisive Sen McCain whom has no shame…..They even managed to get my Aunt to change her mind….SO please don’t think that us here in rural MO are that racist, I saw by my own GOTV that we aren’t. But LIES, HATE,SMEAR and FEAR politics sadly still work. Thank Goodness President Elect Obama won by not using character assination, he won on policy.
Dawn
51/w/f
Didn’t Obama lose votes that other Democrats got due to his more liberal gun control advocacy?
“It is a shame that something as incredibly important as the US Constitution is ignored. We still do not know if Obama is eligible for the office. Don’t you think that is important?”
Think, where’s that come from? What is it that has you going on that? Do you think he is Muslim, too? I mean, after all, his middle name is “Hussein,” that’s gotta prove something, right?
It is called the US Constitution. He must be a natural born citizen. He has failed to show that. Is this so hard for you to understand? I do not think he is Muslin — at least not at this point in his life. I have suspicions that he was not born in Hawaii, but all we need to prove/disprove that is his birth certificate released. It really is very simple and he owes the people that much.
Believe me, I certainly do hope that he was in fact born in Hawaii. That would avoid a Constitutional crisis. Until he settles this once and for all, it will be a growing question. John McCain release his full birth certificate. The state of Hawaii has the full version on file. He just has to release it.
Hey Think,
I think you may find this of interest.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/05/citizen_mccain.html
Also, will you please SHUT UP sounding like a broken record, I really try to not tell people to shut-up but in thios case WILL YOU STOP BEATING THOSE DELUSIONAL THOUGHTS IN YOUR HEAD TO DEATH!
Obama is an American citizen and his birth certificate is on file and has been produced by him and I posted it for you before.
Furthermore,if you know that the State of Hawaii has the full version on file, that tells a person with normal mental functions that he is a born citizen of the State of Hawaii, meaning that he is a U.S. citizen.
How more stupid can one behave as? PLEASE STOP IT, you are embarrassing yourself and the Republican Party.
What Obama has released is insufficient. It is not the full version of the certificate. Also keep in mind that the full certificate with the state of Hawaii MAY simply be a registration of a live birth OUTSIDE of Hawaii. Until we SEE the full certificate, we will not know the truth.
This is so SIMPLE to understand, which obviously is a bit too difficult for your STUPID little brain. His OWN GRANDMOTHER says he was not BORN in Hawaii. Do you hate grandmothers?
DAWN,
BHO won because his people ran a smarter campaign, not on better policy. He reached out to a segment of voters and won them over. Now, all he has to do is attempt to keep all of the campaign promises he made. Time will tell on that issue. He was asked a very basic tax question at his first conference the other day, surprise , surprise,,,,,same ole Washington politics,,, he didn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t answer it.