Missouri may have lost its reputation for accuracy in choosing the president (McCain is leading by less than 7,000 votes with thousands of provisional ballots still to be counted), but it definitely retained its status as a state of independent-minded people who will vote for Democrats and Republicans on the same ticket.
PRESIDENT – red (McCain)
GOVERNOR – blue (Nixon)
LT. GOVERNOR – red (Kinder)
ATTY GEN – blue (Koster)
SEC. of STATE – blue (Carnahan)
TREASURER – blue (Zweifel)
Missouri’s results county by county Presidential results:
Here’s John McCain’s very classy concession speech from last night:
November 4th, 2008 at 9:00 PM
With 26% reporting, Obama’s winning in Buchanan County. That’s a good sign.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Obama lost the KC suburbs. That seems to be the key. Also, turnout was higher in suburban counties than urban counties, in both metros.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Ralph Nader got 17,000 votes. I wonder how many ballots across the country was his name on?
Also something is to be said about how Nixon could win by such a lead while Obama McCain was so close.
That always bothered me with the early polls.
Missouri from KC to STL has some thinking to do. We’re going to remain a flyover state. Proposition M failed as well..we keep losing ground.
We need to begin to build and maintain a relationship with rural Missouri. It just doesn’t make sense to split for a republican president when you’re election a democratic governor, when you’ve already elected a democrat to senate and robin carnahan as secretary of state.