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[Omaha Steve]

5. Nero, “fiddled while Rome burned.”

So many DUers that do things that keep the DU and or the party from uniting.

Those stamping their feet have nothing to do with bad news like this from today below.

Sorry it is wikipedia as a source. But it is correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Missouri,_2008

Missouri was won by Republican nominee John McCain by just shy of 4,000 votes, a 0.1% margin of victory.

For the better part of a century, Missouri has been reckoned as the nation's bellwether state. Prior to 2008, since 1904, Missouri had voted for the winner in every presidential election except in 1956 when the state narrowly voted for Democrat Adlai Stevenson of neighboring Illinois over incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In recent years, however, it has gradually been trending Republican. Although Bill Clinton of neighboring Arkansas won the state with ease during both of his elections in 1992 and 1996, Al Gore and John Kerry considered the Show-Me State a lost cause and did not campaign much there. Although Barack Obama is from neighboring Illinois, at first he likewise put the state as a secondary concern in relation to other swing states such as Ohio and Virginia where he thought he had more of a chance. As his lead diminished in the summer months, he and McCain moved the campaign to more Democratic-friendly states, as McCain maintained a comfortable polling lead in Missouri. Similar hypothetical general match-up polls taken between McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton, however, showed Clinton always leading in Missouri.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/politics/poll-trump-leads-clinton-in-mo-by-10-points/280772539