Post campaign diary remarks on St. Louis voting

The late-reported St. Louis voting that changed an apparent Hillary Clinton victory in St. Louis to a narrow win for Barack Obama Tuesday was the subject of a political diary entry on the Washington Post website:

After the Clinton campaign sent out a press release this evening claiming a win in Missouri, under the heading "Hillary's Big Night," the lead in the Show-Me State flipped -- with Barack Obama moving ahead by a few thousand votes to claim victory. One spectator at the Obama rally who wasn't surprised: Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, whose upset in 2006 was the last Senate race called on election night, after she had trailed all evening to incumbent GOP Sen. Jim Talent.

Blame it on St. Louis, in particular the Fourth Ward, a heavily Democratic area that is a notorious reporting laggard. "Where Barack Obama is doing so well in Missouri is where the Democrats live," s

aid McCaskill, smiling slyly. "And in St. Louis, those returns come in very late."