Ben Chandler, D-KY., scores a run during the Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park in Washington Credit: Douglas Graham/Roll Call

WASHINGTON — Democrats’ fortunes have shifted from the electoral sweep on Capitol Hill and the White House to the…

Sotomayor with the president and vice president

President Barack Obama this morning selected appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for the Supreme Court, putting her in line to become the court’s first Hispanic justice.

However, sports fans in St. Louis and…

WASHINGTON - The Renaissance Washington Hotel - home this week to much of the Illinois delegation to the presidential inauguration - has a tradition in its “Presidents Sports Bar” of hanging up large framed photographs of the current president engaged…

Here are some pictures from Gov. Matt Blunt’s trip to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. Above, the governor meets with members of Task Force Guardian. More pics after the jump.

Gov. Matt Blunt’s office has another dispatch from his visit with U.S. troops stationed at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.

Blunt, a Naval Academy alum who served five years active duty after graduation, joined a class of “Warrior Leaders” — non-commissioned Army officers training…

John McCain has a familiar task for his local supporters: Wear red and fill a baseball stadium.

Of course, McCain is not talking about Busch Stadium, but T.R. Hughes Ballpark in O’Fallon (home of the Frontier League’s River City Rascals), where the…

The Politico news site is reporting that veep contender Mitt Romney will appear with John McCain at his August 31 rally in St. Charles County.

But, in a twist that is perhaps more confusing than intriguing, Mike Huckabee — runner-up for the GOP…

Anybody who tuned in to watch the Cardinals last night on ESPN saw the trappings of hard-fought and taunt contest, with lots of momentum swings and nail-biting down the stretch.

Oh yeah — there was also a baseball game. 

Guessing, perhaps, that…

Looks like Mizzou football favorite Brock Olivo isn’t the only former college athlete running for Congress in the state’s 9th District.

In a post yesterday, we used a baseball reference to describe Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer’s formation of a group of agricultural supporters. (It’s…

Is Congressional hopeful Blaine Luetkemeyer forming a minor league baseball team?

No, but he has established a “farm team” — 14 ranchers and others with agricultural expertise — to shore up the rural vote in the GOP primary for the Ninth Congressional…