Susman
The Senate Foreign Relations committee today heard testimony from former Cardinals executive Louis Susman, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama as ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Susman, a St. Louis native, was August A. Busch Jr.’s personal lawyer when Anheuser-Busch…
The news site Politico lists St. Louis County as one of the five most important counties in the country for either Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain.
“McCain will likely win rural Missouri and Obama will win the big urban bookends, St.…
An Obama voter registration event in St. Louis
Barack Obama’s last-minute registration push in Missouri has caught the attention of the Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Ticket blog, which suggests that the effort might be more meaningful than anything said in…
And now for something on the lighter side of debate politics — or, at least, the sweeter.
Campus eating spots at Washington University are selling confections to match the contestants in Thursday’s vice-presidential debate: Blue donkey cookies with a frosted “B”…
Sen. Claire McCaskill is probably among the Top 25 wealthiest lawmakers in Washington, according to one rough estimation. 
Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, ranks the Missouri Democrat as #14 on a recent tally of the richest members of Congress.
McCaskill’s wealth…
U.S. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., offered up some sharp criticisms today of the Republican presidential ticket: Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin.
McCaskill asserted that McCain “is a typical politician” who is stooping to spreading lies about his ticket’s record, and that…
Newsweek’s Sarah Kliff was among the traveling press corps that followed Democratic veep nominee Joe Biden to St. Louis yesterday, filing an interesting dispatch assessing Barack Obama’s chances of winning Missouri.
“Can the Democrats flip Missouri this year? The state has gone…
Anybody who knows peripatetic Republican lawyer Ed Martin knows that he enjoys doing lots of things — serving as chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt, heading the St. Louis 
Elections Board, organizing opposition to the Anheuser-Busch takeover — but staying on…
DENVER –Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, among the hordes in Denver, said in a sidewalk interview this morning that it wasn’t his idea to withdraw all those Democratic workers from Missouri in October 2004 — an act that…
