Election ’08

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Click To Play The head of the Democratic Party, former Vermont governor and Presidential candidate, Howard Dean, stopped by to say a few words at the annual Missouri Walk of Fame reception hosted by Congressmen…

What a sharp contrast to 2004 when John Kerry pulled out of Missouri four weeks before Election Day. It was just a little more than a week ago that 100,000 people greeted Obama in downtown…

From the Oct. 12, 2008 Chicago Sun-Times: John McCain is hammering Barack Obama about his ties to Chicago educator Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, a group that used violence in the 1960s and…

Amid a growing distrust among her conservative Christian supporters of anything Islamic, Sarah Palin goes on record stating that Republicans and her ticket welcome all Muslims, adding “it is not acceptable in my book” to…

Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jay Nixon will be in north St. Louis this morning calling for stronger legislation against the payday loan industry. Nixon says Missouri has some of the most lenient payday loan…

I had to laugh just a little bit when Republican Congressmen called the proposed Sub Prime bailout a step toward socialism.  Back in 2004 I wrote a piece suggesting that in a different time Republicans…