The KC region is Obama country
Yael T. AbouhalkahThe votes have been counted and guess who got the most votes for president in the six-county area in the red states of Missouri and Kansas?
Hint: It wasn’t Mitt Romney.
Instead, it was President Barack Obama.
Yes, the margin was narrow: 411,608 votes to 409,316, or a margin of 50.14 to 49.84 of those votes cast.
But the victory by Obama pokes a big hole in the notion that the Kansas City area is a heavily conservative one, that anyone daring to speak a liberal thought is “out of step” with the region.
The totals show that Obama crushed Romney in the Kansas City portion in Jackson County, getting 77 percent of the vote, and in Wyandotte County with 67 percent of the vote.
Romney posted margins of a 57 percent victory in Johnson County, 56 percent in Platte County, 53 percent in Jackson County (outside KC) and Clay County, and of 63 percent in Cass County.
Mark Robertson
6 months, 3 weeks agoAnd your point is? Surprise, surprise, the inner cities of KC and KCK voted for Obama. Anyone who voted for Obama is either ignorant or unAmerican, and I’ll debate anyone on that. This country is in grave danger with this despot at the helm. It is hard to imagine that Obama holds the same office as Bush 43, Reagan, Truman, Coolidge, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, Jefferson, Monroe and Washington. Thank you. Mark Robertson Independence
Matt Henry
6 months, 3 weeks agoWinning by less than 1/3 of 1% makes it “Obama Country?” Suppose just 2500 voters in the 800,000 vote region switched sides and Romney carried the area by the same percentage. Would we be seeing writings about how this is “Romney Country?” Was Missouri “McCain country” for the last 4 years after his similarly thin victory over Obama in 2008? Stupid.
If YTA were even remotely intellectually honest he would point out how remarkably split even the KC area is, with most counties running significant margins of victory for their preferred candidates.
Progressives have for years been insisting that we can’t do anything without seeing the color of each other’s skin, the neighborhood, the culture… Conservatives have been warning that this will lead to the terrible balkanization of people when we should be looking for ways to unite. Perhaps what we are seeing in these numbers is the spectacular success of the progressive effort to turn all of our communities into pockets of special interest groups.
Lucas Staus
6 months, 3 weeks agoRomney was hardly a conservative. 98.5% of the voters voted for more of the same socialist progressive policy this election. RObamney would have won either way. Conservative used to mean to conserve the Constitution, which protects our liberty. Liberal used to mean limited government. Both words are hijacked and misused. We have already drove over the cliff, we just havent hit bottom.
John Smither
6 months, 3 weeks agoBe careful not to hurt yourself. Three weeks is a long time to keep running victory laps and spiking the football.
Classy.
JR Beillenhouser
6 months, 3 weeks agoAdditionally, it shows that the region is also not a heavily liberal one. And it shows that having an editorial board whose politics match the populace at large would be a 50-50 split, instead of the current 5-1 liberal to conservative split at the Star.
Steven Fetter
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6 months, 3 weeks agoLets see how Democratic control of Kansas City (POTUS, Gov, House, Mayor) works out. I am expecting a Utopia any day. I am sure the Star will see it that way at least.
As for me, I will take my chances with the right wing barbarians out in the burbs.
Robert G. Berry Jr.
6 months, 3 weeks agoI say give the progressives everything they want, and when the whole house of cards comes crashing down, we patriots can then step in and under the constitution, clean up th emess and send them to any other country they want to go to and finally leave us the hell alone!
Mark Hastert
6 months, 3 weeks agoSo there is hope! As rural Kansas and Missouri dries up and blows away from climate change and the shriveling conservative base dies up and blows away from simple attrition we can move past antiquated reactionary policies and forward.
Rush is right. Your American doesn’t exist anymore. It hasn’t for a long time.