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Conservative commentator Mike Huckabee tells Newsmax.TV that Republicans who abandoned Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin following his controversial remarks about rape should “repent.” Huckabee, who was one of the first prominent conservatives to voice his support for Akin hopes that fellow conservatives will “repent of their sins and will get back and help Todd Akin” before it’s too late. “It’s interesting that he is, in some polls, leading and some he’s just barely behind within the margin of error and they’ve abandoned him,” said Huckabee on Wednesday. “They’ve got other Senate candidates that they’re pouring vast amounts of resources in...

Former U.S. Rep. Jim Talent should be Missouri's next U.S. senator in about three weeks or less, Secretary of State Matt Blunt told reporters Wednesday afternoon. Talent beat incumbent Sen. Jean Carnahan by 23,531 votes in a special election Tuesday, for the right to complete the final four years of the six-year term originally won by Carnahan's late-husband, former Gov. Mel Carnahan; he had died in a plane crash three weeks earlier. Because Talent's selection Tuesday was in a special election, Blunt said, both U.S. Senate rules and Missouri law say he should take the seat as soon as the...