Election ’08

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…

We’re heading to the Mile High City next week for the Democratic National Convention. We’ll be following the Missouri delegation, as well as the action inside and outside of the Convention as the world prepares…

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…

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…

Barack Obama’s campaign announced to the world at 2:00 in the morning, and by text message, that Senator Joe Biden is Obama’s pick for Vice-President. It was a great choice. Joe Biden offers the best…

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…

Gov. Matt Blunt today issued a fiery statement responding to remarks by a St. Louis University political scientist in a St. Louis Beacon article. Professor Ken Warren told the Beacon that “unequivocally that the racist…