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AHSA HIDES FUNDING SOURCE Fairfax, VA-There is a last minute effort in Missouri by a new pro-gun control group camouflaging itself as a pro-hunter organization to try to deceive Missouri voters. The group, running a last minute advertising campaign, is hiding its source of funding, but leaders of the group have contributed to anti-hunting politicians’ campaigns in Congress. The leadership of the fly-by-night group, known as the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), contributed money to candidates backed by Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). HSUS must not be confused with local humane, animal welfare groups. HSUS is an...

MICHAEL J. FOX was right--at least partially. "What you do in Missouri," Fox said in his now famous TV ad, "matters to millions of Americans--Americans like me." He never mentioned Amend ment 2. He never mentioned the word "cloning." He merely endorsed Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, the state auditor, and spoke against GOP incumbent Jim Talent. But the subtext was clear: Vote for McCaskill--and while you're at it, vote "yes" on Amendment 2. "As you might know, I care deeply about stem cell research," said Fox, a longtime and visibly suffering Parkinson's patient, in a spot that first aired...

Voter Registration Fraud by Liberal Advocacy Group Goes Virtually Unreported Posted by Noel Sheppard on October 25, 2006 - 10:59. Assume for a moment that a conservative advocacy group was accused of voter registration fraud four weeks before the upcoming elections, and had been accused of similar activities in 2004. Further imagine that this group was accused by some of its representatives of campaigning for a Republican candidate for the U.S. senate in a key state that could determine which party controls that Congressional chamber. Do you think this would get reported by the media, especially given all the attention...

The Missouri Republican Party has asked federal election regulators to investigate whether a group that registers voters illegally campaigned for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill. The complaint sent to the Federal Elections Commission this week points to an online video testimony from former employees of the St. Louis branch of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - or ACORN. The video, produced by Pubdef.net, an online political blog based in St. Louis, shows two ACORN workers protesting last week that they were never paid for signing up new voters. Two workers said in the video they were...

Sen. James M. Talent of Missouri and Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill sparred over the war in Iraq, stem cell research and the House page scandal in a feisty debate yesterday, as the candidates fought for an edge in a race that polls show is a dead heat. Talent's challenge is to win moderate suburban voters who have grown disillusioned with GOP leadership, while rallying the more partisan-minded social conservatives who live in rural southern Missouri. .. Tim Russert, who moderated the debate on NBC's "Meet the Press," noted that Talent sided with Bush on almost every major issue and counted...

The U.S. Senate campaign of Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill has been under sharp criticism since she accused President Bush of letting poor blacks in Louisiana die during Hurricane Katrina. Mrs. McCaskill, the state auditor, is attempting to link Republican Sen. Jim Talent with the president as she tries to unseat the incumbent. "George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black," she told a group of Democratic state legislators last week. The comments, made as she outlined Mr. Talent's efforts to attract minority voters, were first reported by Pub Def...

After months of toggling leads, the race for Missouri’s seat in the U.S. Senate between incumbent Republican Sen. Jim Talent and State Auditor Claire McCaskill has now leveled. Results of the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of 500 likely voters show the candidates now tied at 42% with Republicans and Democrats divided evenly along party lines.

Incumbent Jim Talent holds a slight advantage in the Show Me State, according to the latest poll by Zogby Interactive. 49 per cent of respondents in Missouri would vote for the Republican in the election to the U.S. Senate, while 44 per cent would support Democrat Claire McCaskill.

Research 2000's poll of 800 likely voters in Missouri showed that 47 percent preferred McCaskill, a Democrat, while 44 percent favored Talent, a Republican. Nine percent were undecided. McCaskill's three-percentage-point edge over Talent isn't considered statistically significant because it is within the poll's margin of error rate of 3.5 percentage points for each figure.

Republican Senator Jim Talent is tied with his Democrat Claire McCaskill in the first Rasmussen Report for this election 2006 match-up. The early election poll finds both candidates attracting 46% of the vote.

The state Auditor announced this afternoon that she will run for the Senate in 2006, providing a huge boost to Democrats in Missouri, who were looking for a challenger to Republican Jim Talent.

By this time next week, if she keeps her word, state Auditor Claire McCaskill will finally have ended Missouri's most popular political parlor game. After moving the deadline for months, she has promised to announce by Labor Day whether she's running for reelection or for the U.S. Senate.

he tea leaves, the chicken entrails, the tarot cards all point to an inescapable conclusion. Much of the week was spent on the phone trying to nail down the hottest political story in Missouri. Will Claire McCaskill run for the U.S. Senate next year? Will the state auditor place her political career on the line just months after a bitter loss against Republican Matt Blunt in last year’s race for governor? Here’s the answer: Yes, she will. The former Jackson County prosecutor would beat her self-imposed Labor Day deadline by announcing this week that she will challenge GOP incumbent Jim...

After a weekend trip to Nantucket Island, Mass., where she met with a bevy of Democratic senators, McCaskill says she hasn’t made a final call about whether she will challenge Republican incumbent Jim Talent next year. The weekend gathering was sponsored by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and featured talks by Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, who leads the committee, Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and several other senators.

HANNIBAL, Mo. - In a polite but tension-filled encounter, Gov. Bob Holden and primary challenger Claire McCaskill shared a stage Saturday before Democrats for the first time since both filed for an August showdown in the governor's race. Holden showed off the influence of incumbency, introducing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as keynote speaker for a party banquet and welcoming the endorsement of his fellow Democratic governor. McCaskill, the state auditor, was introduced long after Richardson's exit and - standing at the microphone next to the seated Holden - acknowledged at the outset: "I know this is a little tense."...