Missouri will be a key “swing” state in next November’s decisive vote for the Presidency. In 2008, Republican candidate John McCain barely won the state against President Obama, beating him by just 3,903 votes statewide, 49.4% to 49.3%. But judging by voter interest, or lack thereof, in Barack Obama’s re-election last night in the all-party Missouri Presidential preference ballot, the President does not appear to have improved his chances of winning the state in the 2012 Presidential election.
Obama was surprisingly only able to gain a relatively dismal 19.7% of the total vote in the “Show Me” State, barely capturing more votes than Republican Mitt Romney, with 64,405 to Romney’s 63,826. Rick Santorum was the big winner, with nearly twice Obama’s and Romney’s votes, at 138,957, or close to 43% of the total votes of all candidates statewide. In comparison to the votes given to the Republican candidates and other minor candidates on the ballot, Obama’s showing in Missouri was dismal.
While the election night was a Santorum blow-out and might be called a significant rejection of Romney on the Republican side, the significance of the returns in such an important Presidential “battle ground” state also reveal a real lack of enthusiasm among Obama voters that now cannot be ignored by the President’s campaign team. The mainstream media has pretty much blacked-out reporting and analysis on Obama’s fairly consistent lackluster returns in the 2012 Presidential primaries where voters have been able to actually chose for or against him on a paper ballot. Though Obama’s nomination as the Democratic standard-bearer is a foregone conclusion, his primary vote performance can also be seen as a sort of measure of how motivated his core support in the Democrat party will be to actually show up at the polls in November and propel him into another four years of service as President. And so far, with vote totals down over 50% in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary vote, and now with the results in Missouri, Obama and his core supporters have little to show for these early primary races.
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I don’t place much stock in this. There have been instances of Democrats crossing over to vote for Romney on the assumption that Obama can beat Romney. We need to get out the vote. People who pay attention know how bad Obama has been for this country!
We already know Obama can’t run on his record on job growth and the economy; he is going to resort to demagoguery and dirty tricks to beat the GOP opponent. All the GOP opponent has to do is playback all of the lies that Obama has told, including the first one where he took the oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Right! The illegal alien has lied from day 1! He cannot be allowed to continue as “President Of The United States,” because his agenda is to destroy our economy, and destroy our relationship with every other free society on Earth.
Obama is an “illegal alien” to the United States Of America. When are you people going to “GET IT?”
Stop talking about stupid, little things, and get on the straight and narrow, and ADVERTISE to everyone you know and meet–Obama is an ILLEGAL ALIEN! He is in America ILLEGALLY! He has, as an objective, to destroy our country, and must be either eliminated from our WHITEHOUSE, and placed in confinement for life, OR, banished from our shores forever. End of story!