Reply #23: I completely agree; West Virginia will rejoin us before Missouri [View All]

[Awsi Dooger]

For one thing, the self described party ID in Missouri as of Tuesday was 35 Dem, 36 GOP. In West Virginia it's still 50 Dem, 32 GOP. They voted our governor candidate, Manchin, into office by a 63-34 margin in an open race. The ideal candidate can still win West Virginia.

I don't agree with the original poster that Missouri mirrors the nation in demographics. A full 89% of the voters this time were white, with 33% from rural areas and only 16% urban. We have almost no shot with a breakdown like that. Luckily, white males in Missouri are not as blatantly Republican as most of the nation.

Missouri has almost no Hispanics. Only 1% in this year's exit polls, compared to 8% nationally. Also just 8% African American voters, while it's 11% nationally.