Public Policy Polling released a new poll on the Missouri Senate race post-“legitimate rape” debacle. Two things: I’m not forming an opinion, nor should anyone really, until we have more information on the sample used. I’m also torn as to
GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin gave Cumulus Media’s Mike Huckabee the first exclusive interview where he explains his controversial remarks regarding rape, pregnancy and abortion. Akin also vowed to stay in the race agains Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill.
Democrats are desperate to change the subject from their losing battle on Medicare to government control of health. GOP Senate Candidate Todd Akin made a ridiculous comment regarding his opinion on rape and abortion after which Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill
Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin appeared on a local St. Louis television show (below) and discussed his thoughts on abortion, even in the instance of rape or incest, which accounts for less than 1% of abortions received. (More.) Progressive backlash from
Claire McCaskill once seemed like a Democrat senatorial powerhouse — but that was before Missouri turned on the far-left big spending policies she rubber-stamped for President Obama. Her allegiance to Obama over her constituents has come at a hefty price: McCaskill is
Claire McCaskill’s campaign wasted no time in attacking Todd Akin after his senate primary win. This evening McCaskill sent an email to supporters claiming that Akin is a “dangerous” tea party extremist: Akin’s Rap Sheet Makes It Clear: Tea Party
Missouri has steadily tipped red since 2008 and nothing could demonstrate this better than tonight’s primary. Voter turnout was up several points from the ’08 primary and most of grassroots’ preferred candidates swept the primaries. In the Missouri Senate, Todd
Rep. Todd Akin has won Missouri’s hotly contested Republican Senate Primary to take on Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill this fall. Akin, an original member of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, beat out GermX CEO John Brunner and Sarah Steelman, a
(AP) Dems advertising in several GOP Senate primariesBy DAVID ESPOAP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTONDemocrats have their thumbs on Republican scales in Senate primaries in Missouri and Wisconsin this summer, hoping to improve their own chances of maintaining a majority in November. The
Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called Democrats’ bluff on the 2013 tax cliff. Speaking on the Senate floor, McConnell announced that Republicans will allow a 50-vote threshold on Democratic proposals for renewing the Bush tax rates. Democrats have
Missouri’s incumbent Democrat senator and one of President Obama’s most vocal supporters, Senator Claire McCaskill, is in trouble. The latest Rasmussen poll has her trailing every single one of the Missouri senate Republican primary contenders. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill may wish Vice President Joe Biden had not talked her up so effusively at a fundraiser yesterday. According to Politico, Biden gave an “impassioned” speech on McCaskill’s behalf and said he was a “strong, strong ally” of hers.
Yesterday afternoon at Netroots Nation in Providence, RI, I attempted to ask the embattled Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) about his campaign, specifically his record as the deciding vote for Obamacare. Ohio voters passed an amendment to their constitution outlawing the
During an interview on this story with radio host and Breitbart News Contributing Editor Dana Loesch, Republican Senate candidate John Brunner, who is running against Todd Akin and Sarah Steelman for the chance to face off against Democrat Claire McCaskill in the
Earlier today, FBI agents dropped in on the home of St. Louis conservative Scott Boston over remarks he made about Sen. Claire McCaskill at a Tea Party Express rally in Springfield. Fortunately, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was able to break the
Last week at RebootCongress, I wrote about efforts by progressive propagandists like MOPAG (Missouri Progressive Action Group) and Senator Claire McCaskill to seed their talking points in local newspapers with letters to the editor. The talking points that they’ve set
Paying a USDA fine of $90,463 by close of business Monday would have allowed John and Judy Dollarhite on Nixa, Mo., to put their “crime” of selling too many rabbits in a single calendar year in their proverbial “rear-view mirror.”
St. Louis reporter Jake Wagman is taking heat for a slanted piece he ran over the weekend in the city’s daily paper. It looks as though Wagman has tried to turn oppo on Lt. Governor Peter Kinder — the unofficial
Thank goodness Sen. Claire McCaskill can count on the media to help her out. The press started spreading the rumor this week that McCaskill is questioning Obamacare even though she not only supported the plan, but also traveled the state
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) speaking on behalf of the “New Tone” the Democrats are trying to strike with Republicans. We wonder if Rachel Maddow will do a special segment about the “dangerous rhetoric” from the left.
This story might slip right past you. It’s understandable, considering most Americans have no idea of the context or how it happened that the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is now set for 20 years in Iraq, thanks
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Friday morning Jamie Allman and I interviewed Claire McCaskill who gave further signs of Democrat infighting as she agreed to issue a press release saying that she supports having a broadcasted conference committee on the fauxcare negotiations. She was challenged
