Located along the borders of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Northwest Arkansas, the district occupies part of the Bible Belt with a strong socially conservative trend.

McCain received less than 60 percent in only Greene County, where Obama may have been helped by the college subplot presence of Missouri State University.

The table below shows how individual counties in MO-07 voted in the 2008 Missouri Republican Presidential Primary.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) carried every county in the district by convincing margins over U.S.

Former Attorney General and now Governor Jay Nixon (D) lost the district to his challenger, former U.S. Representative Kenny Hulshof (R).