In Columbia at the Stony Creek Inn, Republican spirits began sky high, then turned uneasy and ended up tumbling down. Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler began the night by easily coasting to a win in the Republican primary for U.S. district four.
A two-guitar band featuring John Wright’s uncle played into the night at the Rocheport General Store as Wright beat out Nancy Copenhaver to win the Democratic nomination for state House district 47.
Storify is a way of telling stories through the social media that grows up around events. KBIA reporters spent time with the candidates in the August primary as the results rolled in and here's some of their coverage through twitter and photos.
A 29-year-old newcomer to politics is the Republican nominee for the newly-drawn 44th State House District. Caleb Rowden got 41 percent of the vote in the 4-way race for the seat, which will represent Columbia’s third ward and most of Northeast Boone County. Rowden says economic development would be one of his main concerns as a legislator.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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The elections team. Well, most of them. Shakespeare's pizza provided fuel for the evening.
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We had two reporters at Sarah Steelman's watch party at this pizza place in Rolla.
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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.
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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
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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.
