Gov. Tim Kaine

WASHINGTON – Who can forget the Democratic Party’s messy primary season last year, when Democrats in two big states — Florida and Michigan – ended up in a standoff with the national party?

To recap, party rules stipulated that just four states —…

Rudy, left, and Mitt

GOP sources are saying that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney will be here campaigning for Sen. John McCain over the weekend. Their visits here are part of the expected crush of heavy-hitters…

DENVER — Though tonight belonged to Hillary Clinton, John McCain will be in O’Fallon, Mo. on Sunday, and could make his veep selection as soon as Friday.

One of those at the top of the list — and scheduled to appear with…

DENVER — So Mitt, let’s get this out of the way. How many homes do YOU have.

“One less than John Kerry. That’s four,” Mitt Romney told reporters at a lunch here today.

We had to ask him something, considering that Romney evaded…

John McCain has a familiar task for his local supporters: Wear red and fill a baseball stadium.

Of course, McCain is not talking about Busch Stadium, but T.R. Hughes Ballpark in O’Fallon (home of the Frontier League’s River City Rascals), where the…

DENVER — Political party tactics now include invading one another’s conventions, and Fox News is reporting that John McCain might even drop the name of his veep choice on Thursday, tromping on Barack Obama’s accepting speech.

Can they do tricky stuff like that? Yep, though…

I had a good chat this morning with Rich Magee, chairman of the St. Louis County GOP central committee and the mayor of Glendale, in his law office in Clayton. We talked about a lot of political topics, both locally…

Gov. Matt Blunt — formerly a high-profile backer of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney – announced this morning that he’s now supporting Sen. John McCain for president.

 ”I had the opportunity today to talk to Senator McCain and I told him he is the best person…