Election ’08

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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…

According to a new survey from Politico.com, Democrat Barack Obama is leading Republican John McCain by a sizable margin in St. Louis County. Sen. Barack Obama holds leads in four key counties that will go…

[CORRECTED] St. Louis Congressman Lacy Clay is calling on all the elected officials in his district to come to a phone bank at his office Monday to call through St. Louis City’s and St. Louis…

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…

Barack Obama and Joe Biden will return to Missouri this Thursday. Obama will rally students and supporters in Columbia while Biden will talk with voters in Arnold. CHANGE WE NEED RALLY WITH BARACK OBAMA THURSDAY,…

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…

A tape was released today of Bill Clinton slamming the writer of a Vanity Fair article which claimed he is still cheating on his wife. Clinton also charged that the media has been biased against…