In what many called a turning point in the contest for the Presidential nomination Missouri Democrats delivered the majority of their votes to Illinois Senator Barack Obama.  Leading the State was the City of St. Louis giving Obama over 70% of the votes cast in the City.  Adding to those numbers, Barack Obama received nearly 62% of the Democratic vote in St. Louis County.

Perhaps the best news for CityDems from February 5th was that nearly 235,000 more Democrats than Republicans voted in the Missouri Primary

Brent Martin
MissouriNet.com

JEFFERSON CITY — A top Republican leader expects 2008 to be a rough election year for his party.

House Speaker Rod Jetton (R-Marble Hill) is the one who pushed for Republicans to elect a Speaker-designate. The House Republican Caucus elected Representative Ron Richard (R-Joplin), who now will have a year to learn the ropes from Jetton so he will be ready to become Speaker in 2009, after the November 2008 elections.

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