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04.22.2009 4:36 pm

House approves promoting voter registration for hunters and anglers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Andrew Koenig

Andrew Koenig

JEFFERSON CITY — The House has given first-round approval to a bill that would supply voter registration forms to people seeking hunting and fishing licenses.

Sponsor Rep. Andrew Koenig, R-Winchester, said this will encourage more people to vote.

But Democrats said the…

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04.17.2009 4:39 pm

The conservative case for gay marriage

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
Schmidt

Schmidt

WASHINGTON — We haven’t heard much from Steve Schmidt of late. In fact, it seemed like John McCain’s chief strategist went underground after McCain’s loss in the November election.

He popped up today, and his comments may not please some of McCain’s supporters:…

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11.19.2008 2:38 pm

Missouri officially a red state — but barely

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This just in from the Associated Press:

Republican John McCain has defeated President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri _ the last state to be decided in the 2008 presidential election.
McCain’s narrow victory over Obama breaks a bellwether streak in which Missourians had picked the winning…

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11.06.2008 11:57 am

Were Missouri rural votes for John McCain racist?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you’re not too tired of voting, let’s try another poll.

St. Louis University professor Ken Warren says that Missouri’s vote for Republican John McCain shows some rural racism tendencies. Why? Many of Missouri’s rural counties voted for Democrats at the top…

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11.06.2008 11:30 am

Gov. Blunt criticizes SLU professor over election comments

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ken Warren

Ken Warren

St. Louis University political science professor Ken Warren says Sen. John McCain won Missouri while losing the nation because of the “racist vote in rural Missouri.”

Gov. Matt Blunt, who backed his fellow Republican, proved today that lame duck or not, he…

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11.04.2008 4:20 pm

Both sides flex GOTV muscle on Election Day

St. Louis Dems drive an Obama RV around the city heckling encouraging voters:

Regional GOP works the phones telling people to get to the polls:

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11.04.2008 8:55 am

The S-Z voters

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Did Obama and McCain ignore the S-Z voter while courting Joe the Plumber?

The St. Louis-area white pages on my desk have S-Z names comprising nearly a solid one-third of the book.

And yet, voters with the surnames S through Z are…

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11.04.2008 8:11 am

A win-win?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As the sun rose on a spectacular fall day, some voters found reason for cheer.

“America’s in a win-win situation,” Rebecca Yarbrough, 27, told the P-D’s Valerie Hahn outside the polling place in New Town at St. Charles, where Republican candidate…

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11.04.2008 7:46 am

Calling in replacements

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Strep throat — that scourge of grade schools — may be making its mark in Decision 2008.

A number of election workers in St. Louis County have called out sick, reports our Margaret Gillerman.

The County Board of Elections says it’s ready.…

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11.04.2008 7:11 am

Packing them in

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Voters wait in line outside St. Vincent's Church early Tuesday morning. Max Gersh | Post-Dispatch

Voters wait in line outside St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. Max Gersh| Post-Dispatch

At St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, just south of downtown in the Lasalle Park neighborhood, the P-D’s Lisa Eisenhauer spied dozens of voters waiting in the…

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