It took three weeks to become official, but Missouri will hand it’s Electoral Votes to a losing Presidential candidate for the first time since 1956:
Sen. John McCain has returned to Senate business and President-elect Barack Obama selected his first Cabinet appointee, but it took until today for the election of 2008 to come to a final official close. The results from Missouri are in.
McCain has won Missouri’s 11 outstanding electoral votes, taking victory in the state by a fraction of a percent, for a final total of 173 electoral college votes to Obama’s 365. McCain won with 1,445,812 votes (49.4 percent) to Obama’s 1,442,180 (49.3 percent) — a 3,632 vote difference.
Back in 1956, Adlai Stevenson beat Dwight Eisenhower in the Show Me State by 3,984 votes, the first time that Missouri had not gone with the winner in a Presidential election since 1904.
