The Barack Obama presidential campaign is in need for some dial-a-voter help.

The St. Louis campaign is looking for assistance on a national phone bank project targeting Indiana, an upcoming primary state.

The St. Louis office has committed to making 10,000 calls in search of Obama supporters in the Hooiser state and needs volunteers to make calls out of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Headquarters at 5855 Pershing at DeBaliviere in the Central West End.

Volunteers will be needed 4 to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m.

Volunteers can sign up for two-hour shifts. For more information call Gloria Bilchik at 706-0822 or jenniferDharo@yahoo.com

It’s a miracle! On the third try the Clinton Campaign finalized their eligible delegates to compete in tonight’s congressional district caucuses.

On Wednesday some delegate list snafus popped up where Clinton supporters found their names mysteriously purged from the rolls, but The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Political Fix Blog is reporting all’s well that ends well.

The new list reinstated almost all of the initially disapproved delegates and adding a list of 27 names that weren’t originally on the list.

This is at a stark contrast with the Obama camp that managed to approve all its potential delegates at first bat. The Political Fix surmises that a lot of the delegate mess was due to the Clinton’s filtering the Missouri delegates for loyalty to Clinton. A lot of the delegates had ties to state Auditor Susan Montee, who supports Obama, and Attorney General Jay Nixon, who is remaining “aggressively neutral.”

At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Political Fix Blog we learn that it’s not just the Ron Paul-ites getting particular over cherry picking delegates to send to the convention. The Clintonistas are giving their rolls a thorough run through as well. So thorough that some die hard Clinton supporters found their names mysteriously purged from the list.

The Democratic Party sent the list of elected delegates to the campaigns, and the list of Clinton supporters came back with many names crossed out. One such delegate was former state rep Craig Hosmer, Greene County Democratic Party chairman. “As far as I know, we’re back on,” he said Wednesday. Hosmer speculated that part of the problem is that some of the delegates hadn’t been active in the Clinton campaign. As county party chairman, he had maintained public neutrality until the county caucus.

Who knew the Democratic Caucus Santa would be busting out his “naughty or nice” list mid-March!

The Kansas City Star’s Prime Buzz Blog is reporting that Missouri is leaning towards Republican John McCain for president against either Democratic rival in the latest Rassmussen Report.

McCain edges out Hillary Clinton 50-41 percent and beats Barack Obama out-right, leading with a whopping 15 point lead at 53-38 percent.

Divine from this what you may, but the KC folks think Missouri’s “bellwether” state status is in jeopardy.

Maybe the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy didn’t hurt Barack Obama at all.

While Critical Conversations will host a discussion on a recent Obama speech at the Missouri History Museum later today, it seems his most recent speech on race in America may have helped soften the blow of some pulpit politics.

Agence France-Presse is reporting Obama’s positive ratings only slipped a little despite the fervor over Wright’s incendiary words, while Clinton’s plunged to a seven-year low. Clinton got a weak 37 percent positive rating, her bleakest since March 2001 when she first became a New York senator, so says the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

Obama was only down two points from 51 percent to 49 percent now. The poll was taken a week after Obama’s speech on race in America.

The Wall Street Journal quotes Democratic pollster Peter Hart saying the 3.7 percent margin of error is a “myth-buster” demonstrating that the fracas was “not the beginning of the end for the Obama campaign.”

The discussion on Obama’s speech will take place at the History Museum at Lindell and DaBaliviere in Forest Park, St. Louis. The event will take place 6-8pm, Thursday. For more information call 314.746.4599 or check out www.mohistory.org.