The polls are tight in Missouri. CNN lists the state as too close to call. Thus, we're seeing quite a bit of the candidates here in the Show-Me-State, and not just in TV ads. Saturday Senator Obama was in St. Louis where he drew the largest crowd of his campaign to date. The crowd, estimated at 100,000, gathered beneath the Gateway to the West Arch to listen to Obama promise to bring change to America. Saturday evening Obama campaigned on the opposite side of the state in Kansas City in front of 75,000 supporters. Talk about good timing. While he was in town, The Kansas City Star endorsed Obama for president making it a productive week-end for the Obama camp. Obama's running mate, Senator Joe Biden campaigned throughout the state last week and Senator McCain is expected in Kansas City today. It will be interesting to see if voters turn out for McCain the same kind of record numbers that they did for Obama.
Obama is strong in St. Louis and St. Louis County, Columbia, and the Kansas City metropoplitan area. In southern Missouri, which is a rural area made up of religious evangelicals, Obama is not polling as well. Bush easily carried this region of the state in 2004. However, Senator Claire McCaskill, who was able to make inroads in southern Missouri during her senate campaign, is leading the charge for Obama and it is expected that Obama will do better in this area than Kerry did in 2004. CNN's recent analysis of Missouri's voters points out that suburban white women who voted for Bush in 2004 are starting to lean Obama.
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