Posted: February 6, 2008 1:01 AM
Missouri too Close to Call; Networks Present Mixed Projections
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With 99 percent of precincts reporting, some major news networks projected that Sen. Barack Obama narrowly edged out Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in Missouri.
The move came a little more than an hour after many networks, including NPR and the NewsHour had projected that that the New York senator had won in the state. At the time of this posting the NewsHour had rescinded its call.
The Associated Press announced its projection of Clinton earlier in the evening. Other networks split on making the call, with MSNBC projecting Obama the victor and CNN not making any projection.
With the candidates this close, the state’s choice will come down to final votes, which are still being counted.
Obama, who celebrated victories in other key Midwest states such as Kansas and Illinois Tuesday night, has campaigned hard in Missouri over the past few days with stops in St. Louis and other cities.
Clinton also spent the weekend making appearances across the state, including Greater Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis Sunday.
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Missouri isn't too close to call. Obama will win. Only Columbia and St. Louis County are still counting.
the remaining votes are in areas with heavy Obama support ... I agree with 'no call' when it is this close, but expect Obama will edge it out in the end
obama is an opportunistic carpetbagger on an ego trip....leave politics to the pros....leave it up to Hillary and Bill to shed light on the Democratic Darkness.
hillary is the carpet bagger if either candidate is but whatever, any dem is better than a republican.
but call the state, obama won.
So I decided that since I am going to be voting for either Hillary or Barack, I needed to educate myself on his "platform" as I already know just about everything there is for Hillary. How is it that a man who keeps feeding us the same "New Direction for America" line in quite the broken-record-like fashion does not have a single original idea for this country? I'm not sure anything his website says can even be mistaken for an idea! Oh wait, there is his simple tax �idea� which would create such a vast federal deficit that you would start seeing sales taxes on groceries at around 21 percent and taxes on little services like, I don't know, going to the doctor. And after adding up all those new little �negligible� taxes, let�s just nick-name them (I don�t know) a burden on the poor, even the proponents of a "simpler and fairer" tax have admitted that there would still be a short fall. But hey, at least it would only take you 5 little minutes to do your taxes. You know what, keep your taxes, I know a few wounded veterans that need the help! Did someone forget to let this guy know he's running as a Democrat?