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...Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign isn't conceding the student vote. An appearance by the former President on Saturday at the University of Missouri in Columbia drew so many people that the school had to open additional space for the overflow, just one of many huge crowds that both Democrats are attracting throughout the state...
...contrast, the Republican race is subdued. A former state party chairman, Hillard Selck, said he and other party leaders didn't even know, as of last week, who was handling front-runner John McCain's Missouri campaign. That might change with the recent endorsement of McCain by former Senator John Danforth...
...fact, judging from the limited polling that has been done in Missouri, Romney is in danger of falling behind Huckabee, another former Arkansas governor. Huckabee is doing well in the conservative Christian strongholds of southern Missouri, and may end up helping McCain by pulling members of the Reliable Right away from Romney. McCain, meanwhile, stands to pick up the independent voters who have been the engine of his momentum...
...Missouri's demographics and its election rules make it particularly tough to handicap a close race here. Because the state mirrors America, every conceivable issue might gain traction - Missouri has nervous factory workers and ethanol-happy farmers; it has failing school districts and wealthy boomers irritated by the estate tax; it has huge corporations alongside angry populists. No one agenda has captured the race...
...polls released Sunday showed how tight the Democratic race in Missouri has become. A Mason-Dixon poll in cooperation with McClatchy newspapers and MSNBC found Clinton with a 6-point lead over Obama, 47-41, but a Reuters/Cspan/Zogby poll pegged the margin at Clinton 44, Obama...