100% reporting, McCain up by about 6,000 votes, MO still not called?

What is Missouri waiting on? Are they still counting provisional ballots? I can't find anything on when or how it will be called.

They had some problems also in North County (St. Louis) which was heavily Obama territory.

Not much news is getting out about anything here in MO.

:shrug:

McCain is ahead by about 6,000 votes and there are about 7,000 provisional ballots to be counted or tossed. History shows that about 50% of these are normally counted. The bottom line is McCain will likely win unless someone finds a truckload of uncounted ballots.

Missouri's no longer a bell weather state.
That title's down the toilet in '08.
They had always been right
Until last Tuesday night
Now they've submitted to greed and hate.

Many of us here in Missouri worked our hearts out for Obama.

voted Obama something like 59 - 39% and St. Louis City something like 85 - 15%. I've taken to calling us the People's Socialist Republic of St. Louis just for fun. The thing I found so amazing about St. Louis county this year is sort of a whole reverse Bradly effect. There were a lot of us that were proudly Obama, but most were pretty quiet about the whole thing. Apparently, when they got in their private little booths, a tremendous amount voted for "That One".

Also, we had several more counties turn blue than last election. I would so love to be a blue state! I think if St. Louis County keeps going increasingly blue (51% Bush 2000, 55% Kerry 2004, 59% Obama) it's just a matter of time before it happens.

Kerry received 37% in Greene CO in 2004--Obama got 41% in 2008.

It was all the rural counties---especially in Southern MO that did not change. I don't think they were necessarily worse, tho, than they were 4 years ago. I haven't really checked into that yet.

Kerry lost MO ---- 53% Bush, 46% Kerry

This time we are almost tied.

state and if we'd had early voting, he would have. In the meantime, many, many of us volunteered and worked hard for Obama and I'm proud of the job we did.

I personally don't care about the bellwether status.

I live in a hopelessly red state of Kentucky. I donated to Obama and worked hard here even though I knew what the outcome would be. I just wish I lived in a state where Obama was almost there like MO.

about the overall outcome, that our loss here in MO is easier to take. Plus, as a good friend pointed out, our work here in MO forced the mcc people to devote time and money in MO. Here's to the next election and early voting!

Unfortunately, it meant you had to have Sarah Barracuda in your state a bunch of times. Every dollar and minute they had to spend in Missouri was money and time they could not spend in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. I have plenty of hope that in 2012 Missouri will be colored blue on election night.

wipes out all the hard work I and others did here in MO to make it go blue.

:hide:

Here's to Missouri going blue in 2012 (or, just conceivably yet, in 2008!), and Kentucky by 2016 (again, who knows, an Obama 2012 landslide could bring it in even then!)

I'm tired of watching tons of $$$ being wasted trying to get 1,000 votes in MO. It's bad enuf we have to court OH and FL in that way.

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2008/11/obama-gains-on-mccain-in-st-louis-countys-rerun-of-numbers/


11.08.2008 5:25 pm

Obama gains on McCain in St. Louis County’s rerun of numbers
By Jo Mannies


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.

With more than a 5,000 vote difference in favor of McCain?

It's probably going to McCain. But that's okay, we all know that it was effectively a tie.

ETA: Thanks for posting that, BTW. :hi:

ANd that means things could change and it is too close to call

n/t