ST LOUIS Missouri has a competitive Senate race It has a competitive governor s race According to polls of the presidential race though there s not much of a contest here in the state that Sen Barack Obama lost by only a few thousand votes in 2008 Trump enjoys a 10 6 percentage point lead here according to the RealClearPolitics polling average It s one of the few states in the country where Trump is running ahead of the Republican candidates in prestige statewide downballot races 