...and they get to chose between a Democrat and a Republican.

among AA's, the young, more educated?  You can flip your contention the other way around.

you have to understand how to win Missouri.  

The areas that Hillary won in the Democratic primary are the Republican parts of the state. No Democrat is going to carry 95% of those counties  - no matter how good the Democrat is.

For a Democrat to win Missouri he/she must win Kansas City and ST. Louis and Boone County. They need to win there STRONGLY.  And they need to try as hard as they can to cut their losses in the rest of the state.

Both Obama and Clinton have negatives in the red parts of the state so the question will be how good either of them would be at getting out a HUGE vote in the cities and Boone County.  

Obama proved he can get out the vote where it's needed in Missouri.  Keep that in mind.

Claire didn't win many rural counties.  She focused on outstate rural counties in 2006 NOT to win them but to keep her loss there to a minimum so that the cities could take her over.  She was successful.

Both Hillary and Obama have negatives in rural counties.  The fear about Hillary is focused on the Republicans.  You want to depress Republican turnout in the rural areas.  They hate Hillary and most of us think they will come out just to vote against her.  Sure the Dems. in those counties would vote for her - but there aren't that many Dems in those counties.

fantasy.  Everyone has such a short term memory.  Remember in Nevada when Clinton was in favor of the Culinary Workers lawsuit to shut down on-strip voting locations because she was worried that urban voters would go for Obama in huge numbers; she ended up WINNING Clark County (with Las Vegas in it) and losing the other eleven rural counties, giving Obama the delegate win in the state.  Plenty of other rural areas in other states went for Obama over Clinton, accounting for nearly the entire fourteen state lead he has over Clinton today.  I thought this was a reality based community, now we're parroting MSM misreporting and taking it as gospel?  Awful.

or Obama which do they choose?  McCain's only chance is to attract the Reagan Democrats and independents. So do Hillary's people go to which candidate?

The talking heads keep missing the point that primaries are within the same party but the GE is between parties so how many people will jump parties?

Last night I attended a "Back to Blue" fundraiser in Cass County.  This is the county immediately south of Kansas City.  

I was talking to a Clinton county delegate.  She clearly recognizes that Clinton has lost. I have met a number of Clinton supporters here who recognize she has lost.  The activists in the party will support whoever the nominee is in the local fundraisers I have attended.  The bitterness we have seen here and at MDD just doesn't exist on the ground in Missouri.

Remember that the Missouri Central Committee chose Susan Montee, the auditor, as a superdelegate and Montee was the first statewide office holder to endorse Obama.

You forget that Obama had to be everywhere on super Tuesday.  That he won at all in Missouri was due to McCaskill, I believe.

Something else to remember is that voter registration in Missouri closed in early January before the universities were back and a lot of organization of voter registration could happen.  And, Obama carried the county the University of Missouri is in.

Also, Edwards dropped out late.  If you look at the absentee ballots cast, you will see Edwards getting about 8 percent.  On election day, that fell to about 1 percent with Obama picking up most of that vote.  

There will be a huge voter registration effort in Missouri that will energize the base and bring in independents, some Republicans, and the under-30 vote in numbers we have never seen.  

Everyone in Missouri sees the passion gap between the Republicans and Democrats.  There is also a passion gap between Obama and Clinton supporters here, but that is another matter.  And, it helps us that the Republicans have a primary fight to determine their candidate for Governor.

Obama will take Missouri if Clinton's recognition that she is lost is cordial and gracious.

One more thing.  At this fundraiser was a superdelegate who has endorsed Clinton.  I reminded her that she must not split the party and supporting a candidate who has fewer pledged delegates will do just that.  She replied that we have to look at the popular vote.  I responded that is OK but you cannot count Florida and Michigan because YOU (she is a member of the DNC) sanctioned them.  No response.  Finally I said I cannot go door-to-door urging people to vote for someone who was not the first choice of the Democrats in sanctioned DNC primaries and caucuses.  (Note: I did not say I would not vote for that candidate.) She had no reply.  

I have no problem in telling superdelegates the consequences of taking the nomination away from the candidate who has followed the DNC rules.  The if-U arguments of the Clintons are not persuasive.  Remember if Democrats were Republicans, Clinton would be ahead in delegates as Jon Stewart observed this week, Clinton would be ahead.

of the article, i don't believe. The point was that a hillary top heavy ballot brings out voters to vote against her, not necessarily FOR the R candidate. That and indies in purple/red states don't like Hillary and will vote against her fellow local D running in that race.

This issue is reason enough for me not to want Hillary at teh to of the ticket. Does she care...hell no. If she cared she never would have run for President because everyone knows about the polarization that will overtake the nation for the next4-8 years if she is the prez. We will lose the house id '10 if she gets elected president.