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…
Voters cast their ballots Tuesday morning at Twillman Elementary School in Spanish Lake. John L. White | Post-Dispatch
On Tuesday, for the 55th time in the nation’s history, the United States held a presidential election. America voted.
It was 55,395 days since the…
A Jefferson County subdivision under construction in 2004. (P-D file photo)
On Nov. 4, Jefferson County voters will be asked to change a form of government that has existed since frontier days. Proponents of the ballot measure say the county has…
With one of the most widely anticipated presidential races in U.S. history at the top of the ballot and a hotly-contested governor’s race just below it, it’s safe to say that the race for Missouri treasurer isn’t a top-of-mind concern for…
This will come as a surprise to Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, but he is not the current state officeholder with whom this editorial page has had the most differences over the years; it is Attorney General Jay Nixon.
The Republican governor has…
Well, this has been a tough campaign. It’s been a very tough campaign. And I know from my experience in many campaigns that, if Sen. Obama had asked . . . responded to my urgent request to sit down and…
Post-Dispatch photo by Robert Cohen
Nine Days before the Feb. 5 presidential primaries in Missouri and Illinois, this editorial page endorsed Barack Obama and John McCain in their respective races.
We did so enthusiastically. We wrote that either Mr. Obama’s message of…
Things should be getting under way at Nashville’s Belmont University in just a few minutes.
For those joining our debate live blog for the first time, everyone is invited — indeed, encouraged — to contribute thoughts by adding their comments to this…
The ghosts of Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln slept soundly last night. The vice presidential debate at Washington University did not threaten their immortal legacy of 1858.
On the other hand, Democrat Joe Biden did not stick his foot in his mouth.…
Eleven months ago, when the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that Washington University would host the vice presidential debate this year, it was a little like being awarded the ArenaBowl instead of the Super Bowl. Indoor football’s championship game is a…
In warfare, it’s generally not a good idea to prepare for the last war. With hurricanes, this time at least, the opposite was true.
Federal, state and local disaster officials spent the weekend preparing for Hurricane Gustav as if the storm…
John McCain and Barack Obama spent some time on Thursday playing “Poormouth,” each of them trying to paint the other as a well-housed elitist who couldn’t understand the economic problems of average Americans.
Obama said McCain owned eight houses. McCain said…
