More than a dozen Missouri elected officials, including U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan, and Congressman Russ Carnahan, gathered today to announce Senator Barack Obama is returning to St. Louis next weekend. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net
Continue reading...Sunday, January 27, 2008
BREAKING NEWS U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill broke the news at a press conference a few minutes ago: Barack Obama will be in St. Louis on Saturday for a 9:00 PM public event (no word yet where). That’s just three days before Missouri and 20 other states get a chance to vote on the Democratic and Republican [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 27, 2008
Senator Barack Obama defeated The Clinton Machine 2-1 in the South Carolina Democratic Primary last night. With 99% of the precincts reporting, Obama received 295,091 (55%) votes to Hillary Clinton’s 141,128 (27%) and South Carolina native John Edwards‘ 93,552 (18%) votes. Obama has won more delegates (not including so-called “super delegates”, Obama has won 63 delegates, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 25, 2008
In today’s edition, The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan says it as well as it can be stated… We begin, as one always must now, again, with Bill Clinton. The past week he has traveled South Carolina, leaving discord in his wake. Barack Obama, that “fairytale,” is low, sneaky. “He put out a hit job on [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 25, 2008
Senator Claire McCaskill told reporters yesterday that President Bill Clinton was playing “fast and loose” with the facts when attacking Senator Barack Obama on his wife’s behalf. “Because of the larger megaphone he has as a former president,” said McCaskill, an Obama supporter, “he needs to be very careful with the truth. … He has tried [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 22, 2008
On the day before the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Senator Barack Obama addressed the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net
Continue reading...Monday, January 21, 2008
Over the weekend, former Senator Jean Carnahan joined current Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill and announced her endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for President. “While I know and admire all the Democrats running for president, I am convinced that Barack Obama is the candidate best able to unite our nation and restore our moral leadership in the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 17, 2008
Missouri supporters of presidential candidate Barack Obama are taking to the streets this weekend, going door-to-door to get out the vote for the Illinois senator. The statewide canvass will be taking place this Saturday, according to Hollie Saunders, one of the organizers. “We will be having volunteers knock on doors in the community to help encourage [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The Columbia Tribune reports that former Sen. John Edwards will be in St. Louis Saturday at the Carpenters’ District Council headquarters at 9:15 A.M. The Tribune also reports that Sen. Barack Obama “said yesterday in response to a Tribune query that he would arrive in Missouri - with Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri - before Super Ultra [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 13, 2008
The AP is reporting that Senator Claire McCaskill is going to endorse Barack Obama for President today. McCaskill has praised Obama often and was widely believed to favor the Illinois senator over Clinton. But the Senate freshman had resisted openly supporting a candidate until now, saying she wanted to preserve working relationships with Senate colleagues. She said [...]
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