stltoday.com - 11/6/2008
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Republican John McCain's 5,868-vote edge in Missouri over Democrat Barack Obama and the state's 104-year record as the nation's best presidential bellwether both hinge on 7,085 votes in the state that have yet to be counted.
All are "provisional ballots" cast by people whose status as ...
stltoday.com - 11/11/2008
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stltoday.com —
The presidential contest is still not over in
Missouri, even if President-elect Barack Obama is already sizing...
up the White House. In fact, the vote count in Missouri is tightening. Republican John McCain's statewide lead has shrunk to fewer ...
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Presidential race not over in Missouri
princeton.edu - 11/6/2008
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In Missouri, provisional ballots hold the key to presidential results
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... by people whose status as registered voters could not be verified when they showed up at the polls Tuesday. St. Louis County election officials estimate that about 3,000 of those ballots were cast in county polling places. Another 750 came from the city of St. Louis. About 800-plus were cast in the Kansas City area, and the rest are sprinkled from around the state. All sides agree that the geography implies that most of the provisional ballots included votes for Obama. Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/polit... Missouri could have been another ...
Show-Me State Still Hasn't Shown Who It Voted For
Political Punch —
... a 5,868 vote edge for the Republicans -- 1,442,673 votes for the McCain-Palin ticket, 1,436,814 for Obama-Biden. In other words, McCain 49.4%, Obama 49.2%. The state was not called, however, because uncounted were 7,085 provisional ballots -- cast by folks whose voting status was unclear when they showed up at the polls. In order for Obama to overtake McCain's lead, he'd need to win 83% of those ballots, which seems unlikely if not outright impossible. More importantly, as the St. Louise Post-Dispatch points out , in the past two elections, fewer than half of the provisional ...
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