Wednesday morning is my day to tend the coffee crowd in my hometown. My little town is probably not representative of the state, but from the way conversation was going the day after election, my theory is that at least a portion of the long-shot candidates got votes from folks who would have voted republican but couldn't stand to vote McCain and equally couldn't stand to turn their coat and vote democrat.

It pleases me to live in a purple state.
Last I knew, our county population is around 8,000. I'm proud to see that over 4500 voted..excluding children and felons, I'd say we had a good local turn out. I can't imagine there were many registered voters who opted out entirely here.

Thanks for starting this thread. I've been curious about what's going on with Missouri and will be interested in seeing what others say.