Missouri Presidential Preference Primary (2008)
In the 2008 Missouri Presidential Primary, voters in Howell County from both political parties supported candidates who finished in second place in the state at large and nationally.
- Former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas) received more votes, a total of 2,882, than any candidate from either party in Howell County during the 2008 Missouri Presidential Preference Primary.
| Howell County, Missouri | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2008 Republican primary in Missouri | ||
| John McCain | 1,347 (24.76%) | |
| Mike Huckabee | 2,882 (52.97%) | |
| Mitt Romney | 793 (14.57%) | |
| Ron Paul | 356 (6.54%) | |
| Howell County, Missouri | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2008 Democratic primary in Missouri | ||
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | 2,307 (64.07%) | |
| Barack Obama | 1,168 (32.44%) | |
| John Edwards (withdrawn) | 99 (2.75%) | |
| Uncommitted | 14 (1.06%) | |
Read more about this topic: Howell County, Missouri, Politics
Famous quotes containing the words missouri, presidential, preference and/or primary:
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“At the heart of the educational process lies the child. No advances in policy, no acquisition of new equipment have their desired effect unless they are in harmony with the child, unless they are fundamentally acceptable to him.”
—Central Advisory Council for Education. Children and Their Primary Schools (Plowden Report)