U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told several hundred at Barack Obama’s Midtown campaign headquarters Thursday night that she’s committed to spending the next four weeks focused primarily on winning Missouri for Obama.

“I will be in Missouri from now until Election…

Even national political Web sites like Politico are taking notice of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s longstanding role as chief surrogate/pitbull-with-lipstick for the Democratic presidential nominee, fellow Sen. Barack Obama.

But even us old hands, who think we sort of know McCaskill well,…

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, who was in the St. Louis area last month, will be back in the state later this week for a multi-day tour, the campaign says.

Although his schedule for his Thursday and Friday trip into…

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece this weekend on Gentry Collins, the Iowa-Missouri overseer for Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

(A hat tip to JohnCombest.com, for first pointing out it out.)

The story appears to confirm what some of us…

State Republican Party spokeswoman Tina Hervey reported tonight that the campaign’s suburban Kansas City office, in Independence, was broken into Tuesday night.

According to summary by an office staffer, the burglary apparently occurred between 10 p.m. Tuesday night and 6 a.m.…

Webster University just announced that it will host a debate watch party on Thursday, beginning at 7 p.m., in the University Center Sunnen Lounge.

Pre-debate, the event will feature “commentary by former Missouri Gov. Bob Holden and several debate and political science faculty from…

With the Missouri polls showing a dead heat between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, every campaign move is igniting scrutiny.

That’s the backdrop over a two-day dust-up that is attracting local TV coverage, and has even ignited a Web fight…

We’ve already posted online a new poll that Research 2000 conducted this week for the Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV (Channel 4).

This poll (unlike our earlier one, where the questions had been set before the Wall Street drama began)  focuses primarily on…

UPDATE:

Here’s the latest from the Political web site Politico.com:

 John McCain called Wednesday for the first presidential debate, scheduled for Friday in Mississippi, to be delayed and urged Barack Obama to join him in Washington for a high-level meeting of congressional leaders…

The Missouri Republican Party just sent out its list of watch parties around the state for Friday night’s first presidential debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.

Until we hear otherwise, we assume these events are still on, unless McCain’s proposal…