(NOTE: The ballot positions of candidates in Illinois’ Feb. 2 primaries will be determined by a lottery being conducted in Springfield this afternoon. We’ll report the results here.)
Meister
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Jacob Meister, trying to stand out…
Blunt, left, and Carnahan
JEFFERSON CITY — Congressman Roy Blunt said the money would come, and it did. Stung by a poor first quarter of fund-raising in the battle for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat in 2010, Republican Blunt bounced back and topped…
Two prominent Republicans today endorsed the bid of U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt for the U.S. Senate.
The Associated Press reported that former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder announced their support for the Congressman’s campaign.
Blunt is…
JEFFERSON CITY — After getting hammered over his poor fund-raising showing in the first quarter, U.S. Senate candidate Roy Blunt is seeking to change the momentum by announcing the support of Missouri’s Republican elite.
First, earlier today, Blunt, the Republican congressman from…
JEFFERSON CITY — Black elected officials will meet Friday to brainstorm about African-American candidates who could step into Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s shoes if she is elected to the U.S. Senate next year.
The meeting, organized by Sen. Robin Wright-Jones,…
JEFFERSON CITY — Democrat Robin Carnahan raised more than $1 million in the first quarter for her race for U.S. Senate, according to a summary of her filings with the Federal Election Commission.
Carnahan, Missouri’s Secretary of State, is the presumptive Democratic…
A tome for our time? 1,500 pages of stimulus
Want some great bedtime reading? Try more than 1,500 pages of Congressional-ese. That is, try the final text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
On Friday, the House and Senate passed…
Seeking U.S. Senate
The Missouri Republican Party asserted tonight that Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, who’s now a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, has been riding a career “based purely on family legacy and not personal accomplishment.”
State GOP executive…
Steelman
According to the KY3 blog in Springfield, Mo., former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman is heading to Washington next week to meet up with some high-profile GOPers and make her case that she’s the strongest potential U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri.
Steelman’s trip would…
Bond, left, and Carnahan
We don’t normally write about polls here at Political Fix, with the exception of our own. But we will make another exception in this case, because the poll was conducted by Research 2000, the firm the Post-Dispatch…
