Bob McCarty Writes

File this under, “Everything Changes After the Primary Ends.” St. Louis television station Fox2News caught me on video at the Midwest Region 9-12 Rally Sunday afternoon at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The cameraman caught me during the moment I was having a handshake conversation with Missouri Republican U.S. Senate Nominee Roy Blunt. I [...]

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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 [...]

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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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About two months ago, I began receiving robo-calls from Michael E. Carter, a candidate for Missouri’s lieutenant governor post who is exploiting the average Joe’s immense dislike of automated phone calls (a.k.a., “robo-calls”) by — you guessed it — using the very tactic he purports to dislike. Below is a chronological review of my communications [...]

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Now that Barack Obama appears to have secured Democratic primary victories in North Carolina and Indiana tonight, political pundits have started talking about the image the junior senator from Illinois will strive to project in his general election effort to attract voters. If Obama is honest, I expect him to use campaign imagery that carry [...]

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I can’t imagine being a Pennsylvania Democrat today. Having to decide between the lesser of two evils is tough enough. Having to decide between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in today’s primary election is truly a dilemma. Cartoon: Political Graffiti

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Much has been written and reported in recent months about the so-called “Oprah Effect” and its impact on the outcome of this year’s race for the Democrat presidential nomination. There has, however, been far less discussion about any role Oprah Winfrey played in sinking the White House “boat” of the first serious female candidate for [...]

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