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Super Tuesday's results established a clear winner among Missouri's Republican party but were too close to call on the Democratic side until the wee hours of the morning. KSMU's Jennifer Moore reports.
Last night's primary was so close between Democratic candidates that most people went to bed thinking Hillary Clinton had carried the state of Missouri. They woke up to find, however, that after urban votes were tallied, Barack Obama had the slight edge among Missouri's Democratic voters.
John McCain was the winner of Missouri's Republican contest. Since the Missouri GOP went with a "winner-take-all" approach this year, McCain will take all 58 of the state's Republican delegates to the Republican National Convention.
The Democratic party in Missouri, however, chose to distribute its delegates between the candidates, according to the percentage of actual votes they won.
Professor Elizabeth Paddock, Chair of Drury University's History and Political Science department, says this means that while Obama actually won the state, he and Clinton actually had to share the prize.
Paddock said she was a little bit surprised at how well Mike Huckabee performed across the state and the nation. When asked if she has any predictions on how Missouri will vote come November, she said it's still up in the air.
For KSMU News, I'm Jennifer Moore.
