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As president-elect Barack Obama begins to fill out the lower-profile seats in his cabinet, one choice could draw particularly high interest in St. Louis.

Obama has yet to chose his Interior Secretary, whose purview spans the country’s national parks and memorials…

Buffy Wicks, chief of Barack Obama’s operation in Missouri, sent out an e-mail and video to supporters this week saying the combined turnout Saturday in Kansas City and St. Louis set a single-day record for the campaign.

An estimated…

Shriver

Barack Obama’s huge turnout at the Arch on Saturday has stirred at least one of the Democrat’s big-name supporters.

Television journalist turned California First Lady Maria Shriver was on CNN’s Larry King show last night, telling him why she’d be happy to join Obama…

A crowd of 80,000 estimated at Obama rally

The Secret Service estimates that 80,000 people came to watch Barack Obama speak at the Arch today. City police put the number even higher, with 90,000 people on the park grounds, and 10,000 on…

Line to see Obama stretched down to the President Casino

Supporters at today’s packed Barack Obama rally at the Arch are being greeted by officials who are all too familiar with long lines.

The Transportation Security Administration — typically stationed at Lambert instead…

As the standard campaign tune “Celebrate” reverberates in the background, the VIPS are starting to role-in at the Barack Obama rally at the Arch: Former Sen. Jean Carnahan and Mayor Francis Slay have arrived.

Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and her husband, Juan Carlos,…

Former Sen. John Danforth has lamented it’s tough to even get a sandwich down by the Arch ground.

Today, buttons and t-shirts are even off-limits.

The political bric-a-brac might be a staple at most campaign events, but, for Barack Obama’s rally at the Arch…

The line to get into the rally begins at the north end of the Arch grounds, near Washington Avenue. Already, it has stretched from there across the park to Market Street.

Easily, thousands of people are waiting to get in.

On street…

Advice to those attending tomorrow’s Barack Obama rally under the Arch: Pack light and take the Metro.

Via Mayor Francis Slay, we learn that police will close Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard — which runs along the riverfront — from Washington Avenue…