The buzz surrounding Tuesday’s visit by Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner for president, to Cape Girardeau to make an appeal to those elusive working-class voters, centers on one question:

What prompted him to go there?

Over the past 20…

The campaign for Sen. Hillary Clinton reported this morning that she collected more money from Missourians in the last three months of 2007 than any other candidate in either party.

Clinton’s take: $330,000. A sizable chunk likely came from her Dec. 2…

Just got off a conference call with state Sens. Wes Shoemyer, D-Clarence, and Tim Green, D-Spanish Lake and Ryan McKenna, D-Jefferson County, and state Rep. Tony George, D-Florissant.

All four had been supporters of former Sen. John Edwards’ bid for president. All four announced this…

 John Edwards has added another stop, and another day, to his visit to Missouri.

 After speaking to supporters at the Teamsters Local #245 Hall in Springfield on Monday, he’ll go on to Jefferson City for a noon event Tuesday “to meet with voters and…

Just when the Post-Dispatch runs a story (co-written by yours truly) that raises questions about whether last weekend’s flurry of Democratic activity in the state was a fluke, the candidates weigh in and prove us wrong.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s right-hand…

(From Jo Mannies at the scene of the Clinton rally at McCluer North High School.)

Turnouts for rallies don’t guarantee an election victory. But Saturday’s turnouts were impressive nonetheless for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and former Sen. John Edwards,…

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., promised a free dinner to all the reporters on a tele-conference call this morning, if her man for president — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. — didn’t stop by Missouri before the state’s Feb. 5 presidential…

Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., may be looking to Missouri as among the Feb. 5 primary states that could keep him in the presidential-nomination game.

His campaign confirms that Edwards is to be in St. Louis on Saturday morning,…

Well, so much for a blowout.

Despite a hefty advantage in the polls, Barack Obama lost the New Hampshire primary last night to Hillary Clinton, neutralizing his momentum as we head to the stretch run.

For Republicans, John McCain’s comeback victory obscured…

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said today that she’s not ready to endorse a candidate for president, and left it up in the air whether she would before Missouri’s Feb. 5 primary.

But as she has for months, McCaskill couldn’t…