2016 Missouri Presidential GE - Trump 48%, Clinton 39%

[xmas74]

39. Clinton won both terms in Missouri

and Obama's first term was considered a statistical tie. McCain won by less than 4,000 votes and considering the complaints coming out of KC and St Louis about the long lines and lack of places to vote that seems pretty damn good. (I remember it well. I worked at the polls in my area and we heard lots of stories. There were hinky attempts even in our smaller town parking lot that had to be checked out.)

There wasn't as much of a push in Missouri in 2012. National seemed to have dropped us and our state Dems used all of our resources for Claire to beat Todd Akin. (That was a thing of beauty! Even Republicans crossed lines after his comments.) They knew they could win without Missouri and chose not to focus on it, which is understandable. Even the national line seemed to be all about us putting our best efforts into Claire beating Todd.

No one around here is really talking about the elections yet. From those who have I've heard interest in both Hillary and Bernie and smiles and jokes about Trump. Trump will not make it out of the caucus in Missouri so he's not really a concern. Huckabee tends to poll well amongst conservatives around here , I've heard some interest about Bush and even some about Walker.

As I said to another poster, wait until December. In December I will post what signs I see in people's yards. Heck, I'll take pics as proof, if something really catches my eye. I'll start counting bumper stickers then but until that time I'm not too worried. It's just too soon and we'll burn ourselves out with the worrying.