Missouri Primary Elections

Incumbent Democratic Gov. Bob Holden lost in heavy primary voting to State Auditor Claire McCaskill. She will face Republican nominee Matt Blunt in November. Holden's loss is the first for an incumbent governor since 1994.

By a large margin, Missouri voters approved amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriages. The ban was approved despite the fact its opponents had a 40 to 1 advantage in campaign funding.

Virtually every county in the state rejected a proposal to change the constitution to allow riverboat gambling in the struggling resort town of Rockaway Beach. Missourians displayed strong moral underpinnings by rejecting both expanded gambling and same-sex marriages by convincingly large margins.

It should be noted that the voters' sense of right and wrong trumped political party loyalty with regard to the same-sex marriage and gambling issues. Personally, I don't think the moral fabric indicated by the election results is unique to Missouri. Contrary to what the elite media and Hollywood tries to make everyone believe, most of America is not very liberal.