McCain's Problem with White Voters
It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
Dan Treul | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
"GM won't change anything until they have every operation overseas," says Danny. "This started back in the 1980s with Reagan... We know we're not going to get any help from McCain."
Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Obama has taken some heat for his patriotism speech in Independence, Missouri -- but not from local supporters, including a mother and daughter who we...
Melissa Hapke | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
"So far I'm safe where I'm at, but I may have to take a different route to work. My house is only three blocks from the Missouri River, but we live on a hill."
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Even still-enamored journalists cannot fail to notice that it would be difficult to find a candidate less suited for the times or the office than McCain right now.
Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.
Beverly Davis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home
Mike Roberts, the "Donald Trump of St. Louis," explains why Obama will win a landslide victory in Missouri, one of the top battle states for November. "He'll kill McCain!"
Art Levine | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home
Missouri, the battleground state that has accurately picked the presidential winner in every election since the 1950s, now faces an unprecedented peril this week.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama won't be in West Virginia tomorrow on Election Day. With his sights set on the general election, he'll be in Missouri. Obama's pub...
Art Levine | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
Protecting voters from fraud isn't the real goal of this measure -- it's just helping GOP officials hold on to political power by blocking Democratic-leaning voters.
Robin Carnahan | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
For those citizens who don't have a drivers license or other government-issued ID, but nevertheless are legitimate, registered voters, ID laws can be a great burden.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living
One might assume that children would be prohibited from being thrown into a chain-link box and told to enact every school-yard bully's fantasy. You would be wrong. It is still legal in Missouri.
David Nassar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Debbie Shank used to stock shelves at night for Wal-Mart so she could spend time in the afternoons with her three sons. Now she lives in a nursing home, requires around-the-clock medical care and owes Wal-Mart almost $500,000.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
That she has been able to stay in the race at all is a testament to the power of the Clinton name, the Dem's ludicrous electoral system, and her hold over a petrified media and the party's bureaucratic elite.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
We should stop spending a fortune on traditional, non-therapeutic, correctional facilities and then releasing youth back into our communities with little done to address their rehabilitation and education needs.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
The Clinton operation's dismissive attitude towards the states that she loses feels uncomfortably like a post-facto snub by the aggrieved party in a break up: "he's not really my type anyway."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Both the Associated Press and then Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign jumped the gun on Super Tuesday, claiming a Clinton victory in Missour...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
Between Obama and Clinton, it's going to be a virtual tie. Both campaigns will immediately release spin on why they are now the frontrunner, and why the other should politely drop out of the race.
Beverly Davis | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home
Missouri has 88 Democratic delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday and if the tracking polls and the opinions of several state consultants and politic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics
Even on the morning of Nevada's important caucus, the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were looking ahead, trumpeting influential newspap...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
Much ink was spilled over Mitt Romney's speech last week about his Mormon faith. Very little attention was paid to America's dark history of anti-Mormonism.
Christopher Hill | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
As part of the secrecy surrounding the execution process, we do not really know who the people carrying out lethal injections are.
Jeanine Molloff | Posted 10.12.2007 | Home
Since her election, the Senator has firmly aligned herself with DLC interests.
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Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics