Campaign '06: A Fight for the Heartland in Missouri
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To have any real chance at unseating incumbent Senator Jim Talent, Democrat Claire McCaskill knows she is going to have to reach conservative rural voters
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It's no secret that Senate Democrats are looking at a target-rich environment in 2008. Open Republican seats in Colorado, Virginia and Nebraska are likely to be seriously contested by Democrats, while Republican incumbents in Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Oregon are also in danger.
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Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican longshot Ron Paul have won the top ballot billings for Missouri's presidential primary elections.
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- As the November election draws closer, the candidates are pulling off the gloves to win the battleground states.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - A routine city hall appointment threatens to turn Kansas City into a new front in the U.S. debate over illegal immigration, even though the closest Mexico border crossing is hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.
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In Democratic strongholds like St. Louis, voters spoke of their passion for picking a nominee who stands the best chance in November.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has won the endorsement of two fellow Democratic senators from the heartland Â Ben Nelson, a popular moderate in largely Republican Nebraska and Claire McCaskill from Missouri, historically a bellwether in presidential contests.
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By Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 8--Gov. Matt Blunt has nominated a school choice supporter to the board that oversees Missouri's public schools.   Former State Rep. Derio Gambaro, a St.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Sept. 28 -- Spend nine days traveling through one of this year's most contested political regions and there is no mistaking the mood of voters: They are angry.
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Propelled largely by rural voters, Democrat Hillary Clinton won the important presidential testing ground of Missouri on Tuesday. Republicans Mike Huckabee and John McCain were in a tight battle for a rich delegate reward.
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Description: Sen. John Kerry takes a campaign trip into rural Ohio. There, Kerry stressed economic issues in the traditionally Republican territory.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader won&#39;t be on Missouri&#39;s general election ballot on Nov. 2. The secretary of state&#39;s office says Nader supporters failed to get the 10,000 valid signatures they need.
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The following is a summary of recent campaign fundraising activity by the six major national party committees, comparing their efforts in the current 2005-06 election cycle with those in other recent cycles. The data was prepared by the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University, and were presented Tuesday by a panel of experts on campaign finance.
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The midterm congressional campaign year of 2006, which saw the Democrats gain 30 seats in the House and six in the Senate and take control of both chambers, was one of those big &ldquo;swing&rdquo; years that usually come along only every decade or so. Invariably, the party that is on the wrong end of one of these political shifts will gear up for a comeback in the very next round of elections.
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During the nineties, our state saw an increase in population, due to "The Californians" (who we like to bitch about) migrating to our low tax/low smog state.  Though most of us natives like to bitch about their supposedly shallow, urban sprawl, rude soccer mom, cell phone, and shopping mall ways, they have done something useful and actually turned us backwards hillbilly, gun toting, Republican loving rednecks into a swing state. Now we have to deal with traffic on I-25 being snarled for hours whenever Dick Cheney decides to send his motorcade through rush hour.  The most important issue on the ballot in our state is Amendment 36, which would change our electoral voting from "winner takes all" to a proportional voting system.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - Two weeks before a tight U.S.  presidential election, tension among bitterly divided voters is  translating into a barrage of attacks on political targets that  can't talk back - yard signs.
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By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 11--A Sedgwick County district judge who has pushed for campaign reform in judicial elections for 10 years has asked a federal judge in Topeka to let him join a lawsuit against the commission that wants to keep candidates silent.