11.05.2008 3:26 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Suffering withdrawal now that Election Day has come and gone? Post-Dispatch staff writer Harry Jackson has submitted this good advice:
Election dejection is what Dr. Miggie Greenberg, a psychiatrist with St. Louis University School of Medicine, calls it. It’s the result of…
11.05.2008 10:44 am
Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau
CHICAGO - In a news conference today, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will outline the process he plans to use in picking a replacement to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for the remaining two years of the term.
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11.05.2008 9:40 am
Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau
CHICAGO - Back in March, I wrote one of many speculative stories in the Illinois media about who might take Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, should he eventually ascend to the presidency.
As of today, of course, the issue is no longer…
11.04.2008 10:04 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer had a 51-47 percent lead over Democrat Judy Baker in the Missouri 9th District U.S. House race with about half the precincts reporting.
The vote count was 81,634 to 75,581. Luetkemeyer had big leads over Baker in Franklin and…
11.04.2008 9:23 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer’s lead has grown as returns continued to amass in Missouri’s high-spending 9th Congressional District race.
With votes counted in about a fifth of the district’s precincts, Luetkemeyer had 40,205 - or about 51 percent - and Democrat Judy Baker 36,555 - about 46.5…
11.04.2008 8:36 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer took a slight early lead over Democrat Judy Baker in the hotly-contested, high-spending race to succeed Rep. Kenny Hulshof in Missouri’s 9th Congressional District.
Partial returns showed Luetkemeyer had 9,728 votes and Baker 9,574 votes - a lead of…
11.04.2008 7:45 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kenny Hulshof’s campaign manager John Hancock has all but conceded the governor’s race.
While saying AP had called the race for Nixon too early in the evening, Hancock just told reporter/videographer Tim Barker that Hulshof has a bright future…
11.04.2008 5:27 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rosemary Kochner
Margaret Gillerman reports that workers at the St. Louis County Election Board and politicians were heartened to see Peggy Kochner continuing in the tradition of her beloved mother, Rosemary Kochner, who died last week.
Rosemary Kochner was a 30-year Election…
11.04.2008 3:30 pm
Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau
No burger and fries here.
CHICAGO - This is the menu at the main vendor stand catering to reporters in the media area of Grant Park, where Barack Obama will address the nation tonight.
Kind of speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
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11.04.2008 3:23 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Goeke
Margaret Gillerman reports back with an update from the St. Louis County elections board where Republican Director of Elections Joe Goeke said this morning that the biggest problem was that voters were walking away with pens.
Now he says there might…