Hans von Spakovsky, the controversial former Federal elections commissioner, was in town over the summer at the invitation of the St. Louis chapter of the Federalist Society.
He participated in a panel discussion about anticipated problems with the upcoming national elections.
Renee Racette at the Obama field office in the Shaw Neighborhood. Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch
To understand why Barack Obama is president-elect of the United States, it helps to visit the old Lester’s Music Store on the corner of 39th Street and Castleman…
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The television was showing pictures from Grant Park in Chicago, from the streets of Harlem, from Spelman College in Atlanta. Young people and old people; black, brown and white people of all shades; dancing, hugging, screaming, weeping. It was…
William Hogarth: The Election I: An election entertainment (1754)
As near as we can tell, the 2008 presidential election first was referenced in the Post-Dispatch on Sept. 23, 2003, when then-New York Times columnist William Safire threw out the first name:…
On Nov. 4, voters in the St. Louis metro area will choose more than 70 legislators to represent them in in the respective House of Representatives in Missouri and Illinois. The charts linked below list the candidates in contested races…
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Updated below (as of Oct. 15 at 10:45 a.m.)
Thanks to unprecedented interest in this year’s presidential election — and a massive registration effort by labor and community activists on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama…
Alaksa Gov. and Republican Rock Star Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential running mate, will sit this week for interviews with ABC’s Charles Gibson. (AP story here.) Many in the media had been calling for Palin to be made…
Over the next 65 days, Americans will be presented with two very different visions of the role of government, one anchored in the verities of the past, the other urging something that hasn’t been tried for a while.
The first will be…
This was originally tacked onto the end of my last post on Russia and Georgia, but I decided it deserved a separate post:
The prospective presidential candidates have, of course, reacted to the situation in Georgia and weighed in on how…
U.S. Representative and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO 7th) came in to have a chat with the Post-Dispatch editorial board today, discussing a wide range of election-year issues ranging from energy to health care to his take on the presidential race.
Energy
Most…
In a Washington Times article sure to spark discussion around the blogosphere, conservative pundit Matthew Sheffield has a column today alleging that left-leaning blogs contain far more profanity than their counterparts on the right.
Using George Carlin’s “seven dirty words” as a…
[This is a bit of a follow-up to a previous post about disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters and Democratic unity behind Obama.]
At a fundraiser, Hillary Clinton answered a question about allowing her delegates to vote for her at the Democratic Convention (echoing…
That’s the margin that separated Democratic AG candidates Chris Koster and Margaret Donnelly when the final results came in last night. 345,790 total votes were cast for the Democratic AG candidates.
Koster’s razor-thin margin of victory — 43.3 percent to Donnelly’s 43.0…
It seems that no matter how many times “the race issue” seems to fade to the background of this campaign, it doesn’t stay there for long. Recurring controversies about race are keeping the issue front and center in the contest…
Apparently the Democratic party’s “unification” process is not yet complete. This YouTube video was added yesterday:
Also, check out the comments. There’s still a lot of anger simmering among ardent Hillary supporters, and a surprising number of…
Project Vote Smart is a non-partisan group dedicated to providing voters with basic information on issues and candidate’s positions for all elective offices from the president down to the state legislature.
They also send out a “Political Courage Test” to all candidates, which…
In Harold Meyerson’s column today in the Washington Post about Democratic “harmony” on economic issues, based on the results of Barack Obama’s recent meeting with 20 economic advisers, this section stood out:
That doesn’t mean that differing views weren’t voiced in the…
Yesterday, Gallup’s tracking poll showed Barack Obama with an 8-point lead over John McCain among registered voters, 48-40 — a result, Gallup believes, of the “bump” Obama received from positive media coverage of his overseas tour.
But today, a USA Today/Gallup poll…
It seems like 2008 could go down as the Year of the Youth. Perhaps this will be the year remembered as the moment when young Americans finally turned off their iPods, put away their PS3s, and became a political force…
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