With the bifurcated politics of Illinois - Downstate versus Chicagoland - it’s sometimes easy to forget the now-presumptive Democratic nominee is from the state next door.

While Barack Obama’s ties to the Windy City have been woven into the fabric of…

I had seen this last week when it first came out and thought it worth a laugh but wasn’t sure if it’d go anywhere. 

Well with a seemingly quiet weekend in national politics — it was Mother’s Day, people — Fox…

Below is a look at a brand new (yet another) professional music video supporting Sen. Barack Obama. This one comes from rapper TI$A and allegedly will be the debut single from his new album.

The psychedelic “Imma Vote Obama Way” includes…

The updated syllabus for Campaigning 101 should make learning how to handle “trackers” a required part of the curriculum.

And Kenny Hulshof might just be able to teach that part of the course.

In political parlance, a tracker is a member…

Earlier this spring, there was a good deal of discussion everywhere about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama’s former and long-time pastor. We heard plenty here Political Fix and elsewhere on STLtoday.com.

The fallout for Obama’s campaign lasted for weeks,…

Anyone following along this election year would hard pressed not to notice the staggering rise in what the reporter biz is calling citizen journalism. This is being fueled by the continuing increase in bloggers, the availability of low-cost technology, and of…

It’s happened again - another speaker inserting “Osama” when talking about Barack Obama.

This time the offender was former Missouri governor and U.S. Senator John Ashcroft, who was addressing students at Skidmore College in upstate New York last week.

The…

This year clearly will be the most-digital election cycle yet. For more evidence, look no further than the Missouri AG’s race.

Most of the would-be AGs — Dems, Rep. Margaret Donnelly, Rep. Jeff Harris, Sen. Chris Koster; and Republican Senate President…

If you need any more evidence that blogs have transformed political reporting, look no further than Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder.

Kinder is hosting a “bloggers conference call” this morning to discuss his support of a sales-tax holiday aimed at enticing…

And we’re back… 

It was apparently a quiet weekend on the campaign trail, something of a break from last week’s big primaries and the ever-escalating back-and-forth between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

That said, the latest buzz apparently in the Internet…