Missourians chose President Bush over John Kerry by a six-point margin in 2004 and picked Bush over Al Gore by a four-point margin in 2000.
Bush picked up a few more points on the questions of which candidate could better handle Iraq and terrorism.
W. Bush picked Cheney as Defense secretary, and he helped lead Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq in 1991.
In July, after Bush picked Cheney as his running mate, two of his doctors issued letters giving him a clean bill of health.
Rather, Mr Bush picked Paul O'Neill of Alcoa (shares up by 40% since late October), an aluminium producer that would benefit from a cheaper dollar.
The offer had come from Lee Atwater, the brilliant, erratic young political hotshot Vice President Bush had picked to be campaign manager for his coming presidential bid.
Bush also apparently picked up ground on education and health care in the third debate, which concentrated on domestic issues.
Obama -- who was, in a sense, also running against Bush or at least the Bush legacy -- picked up the same line of attack.
Bush said his hand-picked investigative panel had interesting suggestions on improving health care for those wounded in battle.
When I got outside, I was not sure what to do, so I picked up a stone near the ixora bush and hurled it at the windshield of the Volvo.
One exception was 2002 during Bush's first term, when Republicans picked up seats in both houses.
"There should be a commission debate, and we picked Missouri rather than either of the other two locations, " said Bush communications director Karen Hughes.
The four-term senator picked South Carolina -- a key primary battleground state -- for his speech in which he criticized Bush's handling of the economy and his foreign policy.
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