Negative Hulshof-Steelman Campaigns Help Jay Nixon June 29, 2008

State Treasurer Sarah Steelman and Congressman Kenny Hulshof didn’t wait long to crank up negative campaigns in their Republican primary contest in the race for Missouri governor.
Hulshof has attacked Steelman for supposedly being weak in her opposition to early stem cell research. Steelman has tried to paint Hulshof as just another congressional-earmarker-and-pork-barrel-spender-gone-wild.
The winner? [...]

Six Ways Kline’s Candidacy Will Help Kansas Democrats June 15, 2008

Phill Kline’s campaign for a full term as Johnson County District Attorney is a boon to Kansas Democrats.
That’s clear even though, as I noted in my last post, Steve Howe will likely defeat him in the Republican primary.
After all, as a KCTV5-SurveyUSA poll taken last year showed, Kline is unpopular among many Republicans [...]

Kline’s Candidacy Will Split Social Conservatives June 10, 2008

In a move that’s sure to split social and religious conservatives, Phill Kline announced yesterday that he would run for a full term as Johnson County District Attorney.
The announcement is just the latest development in the Kline opera bouffe. You can’t fully understand the political ramifications of his latest move without a recap of [...]

Obama Wins a Historic Victory June 3, 2008

Illinois Senator Barack Obama tonight secured enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination for President. He laid some of the groundwork for the victory in Kansas and Missouri.
First, though, we have to note the truly historic nature of his triumph.
He is the first African-American to win a major party’s nomination for President. There [...]

Rules Committee Gives Dems a Boost for November June 1, 2008

The big story coming out of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules Committee meeting yesterday wan’t the victory it handed Senator Barack Obama.
The big story was that the Rules Committee succeeded in crafting compromises on the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegations that will satisfy all but the most diehard supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton.
It’s [...]