McCain wins Missouri in close race against Obama

AP ^

[Chet 99]

Updated: 11/19/08 03:20 PM

McCain wins Missouri in close race against Obama

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.

[Chet 99]

This is the only contested battleground won by McCain. Missouri seems to continue its Republican trend.

[wrhssaxensemble]

So is it time to call the missouri bellwhether dead?

[montomike]

It sure makes me feel better that McDole took Missouri.

[katiedidit1]

I am proud to live in “The Show Me State”

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

I think it is time we called it the “Show Me” state.

[justlurking]

This is the only contested battleground won by McCain. Missouri seems to continue its Republican trend.

Was it Missouri that was the bellweather state with the longest record? i.e. no President had been elected without winning Missouri since ?.

[Chet 99]

Yes. The last time Missouri was “wrong” was in 1956, I think because it was Adlai Stevenson’s home state.

[icwhatudo]

“McDole”

Love it!

[sarasota]

ping

[jamese777]

So the final numbers will be 365 Electoral votes for Obama to 173 for McCain.
53% of the popular vote for Obama and 46% for McCain.
66.8 million votes for Obama and 58.3 million for McCain.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Dems crying about voter fraud in MO in 3....2....1.....

[seekthetruth]

“Was it Missouri that was the bellweather state with the longest record? i.e. no President had been elected without winning Missouri since ?.”

“Yes. The last time Missouri was “wrong” was in 1956, I think because it was Adlai Stevenson’s home state.”

Nice to know! Maybe, just maybe Obama WILL NOT be sworn in on January 20th after all! Waiting on the Supreme Court decisions!! And if they rule according to our Constitution McCain would not be sworn in either since neither of them are “natural born” U.S. citizens!

[Evil Slayer]

Yeah, your right. I remember I was in high school and my folks called him “aldel egg”. I guess they thought he was an egg head. I thought that was funny. My Dad was an “Ike” man. I even got hold of some “I like Ike” buttons and wore then to school. No one even questioned me of wearing them in school. Back then, you could do things like that.

[lone star annie]

Looks like the Republican voters outnumbered the ACORN voters.

[eureka!]

The saddest part is that despite this being an election in which the GOP could not possibly win it, they could have. But for the timing of the crash, McCain’s ham-handed posturing and refusal to fight for the country with the smash face Chicago style politics he was facing, he could have pulled it off with Sarah. He chose, however, to leave the red meat in the freezer box. Despite the presstitutes’ mantra, Obama did not turn out the new voters or excite the rest as advertised. For example, Obama got 40,000 less votes than Kerry in 2004 in Ohio, winning the state by 200,000. Alas, McCain got 300,000 less votes in Ohio than George W. Bush did in 2004. *sigh*

[montomike]

At least Senator Dole had the temerity and the balls to resign before being beaten by the “Stainmeister!”

[kesg]

This is the only contested battleground won by McCain. Missouri seems to continue its Republican trend.

And that's that for the 2008 Presidential election. Not good.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Nice to know! Maybe, just maybe Obama WILL NOT be sworn in on January 20th after all! Waiting on the Supreme Court decisions!! And if they rule according to our Constitution McCain would not be sworn in either since neither of them are “natural born” U.S. citizens!

Yer wrong on the McCain natural bornship. But no, McCain won't be sworn in due to other reasons.

The Electors will have the option of voting for whomsoever they desire . . . Democrat Electors will have a choice of ANY Democrat who was on the ballot.

So who has a list of Democrat's on the Ballot? Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson, Tom Vilsak.

The following people filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC): Willie Carter, Randy Crow, Phil Epstein, Michael Forrester, Henry Hewes, D.R. Hunter, Keith Russell Judd, Karl Krueger, Frank Lynch, Lee L. Mercer Jr., Grover Cleveland Mullins, Larry Reed,

ANY of these "could" be POTUS if the Democrat Electors do not have Obama to vote for.

[ohiogrammy]

So seven percent of this nation are morons, enough said...