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.
Please Bill, stop giving us your GOP taliking points, the election is over, you lost!
The “lit drop” didn’t do anything except expose the hypocrisy of the church leraders in supporting the GOP candidate which doesn’t support the Roman Catholic Church’s “non-negotiable” views on abortion, stem cell research, marriage and torture.
I’d say that you and your sycophantic wealthy donors to the Annual Appeal need to get the facts along with the, at best, mislead leadership of our Catholic Church. It’s no wonder working Catholics won’t listen to the trust fund dependent leadership of the Catholic Church which knee-jerkedly supports the GOP every election, despite its failure to take action on life issues and the GOP radical neoconservative corporatist agenda which is completely contrary to Catholic values.
Actually, the U.S. Constitution gives us no guidance as to what makes a person a Natural Born Citizen. Title 8 section 1401 of the U.S. Code describes the criteria for the Natural Born Status. Although McCain was born in Panama, both he and Obama meet the criteria. Take a look, it’s kind of interesting stuff. As to Obama releasing his Birth Certificate, he has done so, look to Snopes and Fact Check. This is just the last desperate hope of a few fringe nut jobs clinging to the lost possibility that a Black man is not actually going to be President. Guess what, he will be sworn in. Get over it! Blacks got over the fact he is half white, I think most whites have shown they have no problem with him being half Black!
Gosh Tim Hogan, do I use GOP talking points? I am just an ordinary St. Louis Catholic. All the local political leaders I contribute to are Democrats, except maverick John Campisi, who just got beat.
How racist of you Richard. This issue has been alive and ignored by the press since mid summer. This is a Constitutional issue, not a black/white issue. The issue is at the Supreme Court now. Obama is required to respond to the assertions in the law suit by Dec. 1st. If he is a true leader, he will simply release the document and end this issue. Also, perhaps there will be a little more clarity around who verifies the natural born citizen requirement. If Obama was smart, he would have taken care of this months ago.
Keep counting and recounting the votes in the metro areas. Sooner or later you will come up with a way to declare Missouri for Obama. If the election board can’t do it, they can hire ACORN.
Perhaps it is time that Missouri and others lose their “bellweather” status. The population of the US has been shifting for the past 50 years in some interesting ways.
As to the birth certificate issue, President Elect Obama’s mother was a natural born US citizen, she never renounced her citizenship. It does not make any difference where he was born, he is a natural born US citizen.
The last person to run for President who was not technically an US citizen was Senator Barry Goldwater. That was because Arizona was a Territory at the time he was born. This burning issue was solved by declaring anyone born in an US territory was defacto a natural born US citizen.
“The “lit drop” didn’t do anything except expose the hypocrisy of the church leraders in supporting the GOP candidate which doesn’t support the Roman Catholic Church’s “non-negotiable” views on abortion, stem cell research, marriage and torture.”
That comment was so good I had to reiterate. McCain is against torture though, I think.