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11:49 pm
Tue August 7, 2012

The August primary in photos

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Vicky Hartzler
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Republican Vicky Hartzler was cool as a cucumber before the results came in. She went on to win her party's nomination for the District 4 US House seat.
Lance Robbins
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Credit Kris Husted / KBIA
While other candidates were giving victory or concessions speeches, republican Lance Robbins had to wait until the very end to be sure. He ended up losing the Counter Commissioner nomination by just 59 votes to Dan Bormann.
Don Bormann
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Republican Don Bormann took his party's nomination after a neck-and-neck race against Lance Robbins. Shortly before the votes were tallied he mused on the best part about that night: no more campaigning in the hot summer sun!
Claire McCaskill
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Senator Claire McCaskill calling supporters shortly before voting ended. Today she expressed support for Amendment 2, the so-called religious rights amendment.
Shakespeare's pizza
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The elections team. Well, most of them. Shakespeare's pizza provided fuel for the evening.
pizza place
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We had two reporters at Sarah Steelman's watch party at this pizza place in Rolla.
Steelman waits
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For most of the evening, this is what supporters saw: an empty stage and a big Steelman banner. Steelman didn't show up for her watch party until results had been coming in for some time.
steelman shows up
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There she is! At about 9:30 Steelman shows up. The election was called not long afterward and she conceded, throwing her support behind Todd Akin
superfan
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Steelman's party might have been the most festive. This superfan wears the same t shirt that Sarah palin wore when she endorsed Steelman

KBIA doesn't have much in the way of photojournalists, but we've got some smart reporters with some pretty smart smartphones!  Our news team spent most of the night in the field with the candidates as they waited for election results to come in and they had their twitter accounts fired up the whole time.  Check out our online coverage @kbia or at on the #midmovotes hashtag.  We've compiled a few of our twitpics here.

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election 2012
vicky hartzler
sarah steelman
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