Barak Obama held a town-hall meeting in Cape Girardeau today that Sen. McCaskill said was “about the losses that working people have suffered.” We guess Senator McCaskill forgot to share today’s message with the owners of Thorngate Ltd., the site of Obama’s town hall meeting. Related: Peter Kinder Campaign blog:  I made it very clear […]

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“Senator Clinton would do the party well to reassess her options and graciously move her support to Mr. Obama. If she wants to extend this beyond tonight, that’s her prerogative. I wish she would take assessment of what this does to the party and our future objective of winning the White House.” – Rep. Lacy […]

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“Hulshof is a conservative Congressman from the rural 9th District in the northeast quadrant of the state. His name identification outside his district is low and his fundraising is suspect.” Read more…

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Former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, Romney’s national-policy adviser, described the Republican establishment’s dilemma: McCain “has not been in sync with the mainstream of the conservative movement,” he said, and Romney is up against the “party’s reluctance to consolidate behind a new person.” Read more…

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The Bell’s Mad Hatter: (Liberty High School) “Clay Chastain has his faults. He has finally gotten the citizens to agree that they want light rail. He now needs to be flexible and let the city do their work to make light rail a reality. His new lawsuit will only slow things down and decrease the […]

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“Some of our colleagues misread the tea leaves of politics and thought it was a slam-dunk for Hillary, and it’s not.” Read more… “Now the veneer has come off people like [Black Entertainment Television founder] Bob Johnson, who felt compelled to make statements that might bring down the one candidate who can expand upon the […]

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From CQ Politics: House Republican leaders warned Tuesday they would oppose spending increases for food stamps and unemployment insurance as part of a stimulus package. “We’re really talking about doing something to prevent an economic downturn so we don’t have to do those kind of things,” said Minority Whip Roy Blunt . Read more…

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Rep. William Lacy Clay (Mo.), an Obama campaign co-chairman, said yesterday that Clinton was “trying to score cheap political points on the back of Martin Luther King’s legacy” when she said that “King’s dream became a reality when Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964” — the statement that helped launch the debate […]

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Mark Siettmann, of Axiom Strategies, commenting on efforts to get Huckabee supporters to Iowa. “We took over 50 people to Iowa. And when we can get 50 on a bus to Iowa, you can be sure we have a lot more than that.” (Hat tip: SNL Ozarks Opinions)

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Missouri Pulse sounds off on St. Louis attorney Chet Pleban being chosen as the new lead counsel for Jay Nixon’s “independent investigation” into deleted emails in the governor’s office. “Pleban has time to fit a partisan witch hunt into a busy schedule that has recently included representing sex offenders who live near schools, defending a […]

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