WASHINGTON — That new poll reported here yesterday showing a neck-and-neck contest between Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt points to a campaign in which both aspirants will be running against Congress next year even as they run for…

JEFFERSON CITY — U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, continued her campaign strategy of avoiding direct positions on legislation under debate in Congress yesterday.

Carnahan, the Secretary of State, was asked at a news conference…

UPDATE: The GOP’s Lloyd Smith, who filed the complaint, weighs in: “Robin Carnahan was forced to come clean and report Juan Carlos Antolinez’s company, which three months ago she claimed didn’t even exist.  Her new filing raises more questions about…

Purgason

JEFFERSON CITY — There wasn’t much news at state Sen. Chuck Purgason’s news conference this morning.

Purgason, R-Caulfield, had promised a “major announcement,” prompting the capital press corps to wonder if he was dropping his long-shot bid for the U.S. Senate.

He…

JEFFERSON CITY — State Sen. Bill Stouffer, R-Napton, made official today his plans to run for Congress against incumbent Congressman Ike Skelton of Missouri’s 4th District.

Stouffer will have to get past fellow Republican Vicky Hartzler in a primary for the right…

Steelman

Former Missouri state treasurer Sarah Steelman has decided she won’t run for the Senate next year.

Had she decided otherwise, it could have set up another divisive Republican primary since Rep. Roy Blunt announced he would seek the seat being vacated by…

Purgason

JEFFERSON CITY — State Sen. Chuck Purgason has a message for Congressman Roy Blunt. He suggests that Blunt not overlook him in the Republican primary for Senate.

Yesterday, Blunt pulled the old “let’s debate” political trick on his likely opponent in the…

JEFFERSON CITY — The saga of the “birthers” continues to capture the attention of the Missouri political world.

To understand why, let’s go back to July 1, when Orly Taitz, queen of the birther movement (those who don’t believe President Barack…

Ferguson

Senate hopeful Roy Blunt and his Republican colleagues have scored a supporter from across the party lines.

A converted Democrat?

Try Mike Ferguson, one of the state’s most outspoken Libertarian voices.

Ferguson, an alderman in the suburban Kansas City burg of Grandview, was the Missouri…

JEFFERSON CITY — Cue up the “liberal media conspiracy” music …

The winner of Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s “name her new foal” contest is … Moxie! Carnahan, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate against Republican Roy Blunt (and maybe state Sen. Chuck Purgason),…