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Published February 05, 2008 10:13 am - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — With phone calls and TV ads and surrogate campaigners, supporters of the leading presidential candidates are making a final, frenzied push to get Missourians to the polls on Super Tuesday. 9:12 a.m. Missourians to vote Tuesday in presidential primariesJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — With phone calls and TV ads and surrogate campaigners, supporters of the leading presidential candidates are making a final, frenzied push to get Missourians to the polls on Super Tuesday. Missouri is one of about two dozen states where people will be voting for their favored Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Unlike in some other states, Missourians can vote in any primary they want — no party registration is required, and there is no record of which ballot people choose. All indications point to a higher-than-usual turnout for the presidential primaries. Based on a compilation of local projections, the secretary of state’s office expects about 28 percent of registered voters to cast ballots — more than twice the turnout for the 2004 presidential primaries. Many local election officials say absentee voting is running ahead of years past. “It’s more exciting than it’s been in quite a while,” said political scientist Jim Davis, 72, a professor emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri ballots will list 12 Republican candidates, nine Democrats and six Libertarians, including several candidates who have dropped out since filing for office last fall. But the Democratic contest was down to a two-person race between New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. They likely will divide Missouri’s 72 delegates at stake Tuesday, which are allocated on the percentage of the vote candidates receive both statewide and in each congressional district. Missouri’s Republican primary was expected to be a three-way race among Arizona Sen. John McCain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The candidate with the most statewide votes will receive all 58 of Missouri’s delegates to the Republican National Convention. Brother-in-laws Bob Kump, 67, of Bolivar, and Joe Verhulst, 63, of Smithville, couldn’t agree Monday on which political party to support — much less which candidate. Kump, a retired union truck driver, planned to vote Republican — likely for Romney — and cited his frustration with Clinton’s national health care plan. Verhulst, a retired airline worker, planned to vote Democrat — likely for Clinton — and cited his frustration with high gas prices and the war in Iraq. Together for a tour of the Capitol, the brothers-in-law joked of needing separate cars to leave after the talk turned to politics. 
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