Election ’08

As the first day of the Democratic National Convention comes to an end, members of the Missouri delegation are unwinding with beers furnished by hometown brewery Anheuser-Busch at a happy hour in the hotel lobby.…

Today, the Obama campaign announced that United States Senator Barack Obama will launch a battleground state tour leading up to the Democratic National Convention. Obama will kick off the tour on Saturday, August 23, 2008…

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…

As Democrats around the state begin to come down from the high of Barack Obama’s election as the next President of the United States, many are beginning to ask questions about what happened here in…

A recent New York Times/CBS poll found that for the first time, white voters are evenly divided between John McCain and Barack Obama, and Obama is faring better than his party’s recent candidates among that…

Perhaps the biggest winner of Election 2008 is Tina Fey and “Saturday Night Live”. Millions of viewers have made it a point to tune in each week to see the opening sketch, which will undoubtedly…

CNN’s exit polls show Barack Obama won among Missouri women (53%-46%) and narrowly among men (50-49). While Obama expectedly won the black vote (just 14% of those polled) by 91%, he lost Missouri’s white vote…