Republican Chuck Purgason, the 14-year veteran of the Missouri State Senate taking on Congressman Roy Blunt in the Aug. 3 GOP primary for U.S. Senate, says the results of a new poll show him as “the clear favorite” in November. Purgason cites a Magellan Strategies poll which questioned 1,234 registered voters in the state of [...]
Purgason Beats Carnahan by 12 Points in New Poll
July 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments
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Missouri Voters Make English Official Language
November 5th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Eighty-nine percent of Missouri voters, including yours truly, voted to approve a ballot measure to enact English as the official language of their state government. “Voters spoke decisively Tuesday,” says K.C. McAlpin, executive director of ProEnglish. “This landslide vote confirms national polls reflecting that a vast majority of Americans — Democrat, Republican and independent — [...]
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‘Robo-Call Candidate’ Pulls ‘a Lieberman’
August 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Two days after learning Michael E. Carter had lost his Democratic Party primary bid for Missouri’s lieutenant governor position, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the headline, Missouri Robo-Call Candidate Loses in Landslide. Today, however, my post-primary bliss turned to disappointment upon learning the “robo-call candidate” has reinvented himself and pulled “a Lieberman.” Remember Lieberman? Sen. Joe [...]
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‘Mobile Phones More Dangerous Than Smoking’
March 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The headline for this post caught my attention this morning — not for any obvious reason, mind you — when it appeared above an article published by the Independent. The headline made me think about the way Paul Marcarelli, the 30-something actor from New York City who plays the lead role in the Verizon Wireless [...]
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Twas the Night of the Caucus…
January 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’m not an Iowa voter, but I spent some “quality time” over the weekend imagining what one might be thinking as he considers his options. A product of that time appears below: Few voters actually participate in the Iowa caucuses, according to one report today. Among those who do, I can’t imagine there exists anything [...]
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‘Slippery Slope’ Push Dangerous for GOP
September 28th, 2007 · 8 Comments
The folks over at the Donklephant and Central Sanity blogs asked me to consider signing a letter that, if enough signatures are collected, will be forwarded to leaders of the Republican National Committee, to all GOP governors and members of the U.S. House and Senate. The body of the letter begins this way: We, the [...]
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