Bob McCarty Writes

Though the primary races are heating up among Republicans, the results of a Public Policy Polling poll released today prove money doesn’t always result in support — especially among those battling for the chance to face incumbent Democrat Gov. Jay Nixon in November. Most surprising in the GOP gubernatorial primary — and the focus of the [...]

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I’ve heard quite a bit of feedback — most of it offline — about an article I published three weeks ago in which I was the first to ask the question, Is Missouri Republican Party Trying to Limit Participation in Presidential Nomination Process?  Yesterday, “Pat P.” offered the following comment below that article: Thanks, Bob. [...]

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How many Missouri Republican voters know the votes they’ll cast for a presidential nominee Feb. 7, won’t count? I suspect the number is extremely small, but before I explain my suspicions, let me offer some background. If you go to the Missouri GOP website and start looking for any news about major changes to the [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger In the wake of the Romney-Perry bloodletting in Las Vegas… in which Texas Governor Rick Perry savagely and inappropriately attacked former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney… it is time to assess the winners and losers, those on the way up and those on the way out. Taking the candidates in [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger My wife does not often make suggestions for what I should write about, but today was an exception.  As we watched a Fox News update on the field of Republican hopefuls for the 2012 presidential nomination, she said, “You know what we need to defeat Obama in 2012?  We [...]

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Herman Cain appeared to win a decisive victory in the first Republican presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, held Thursday night in Greenville, S.C. Members of a Fox News Channel/Frank Luntz polling group of approximately 30 South Carolina voters were asked to raise their hands if they thought Cain, the former Godfather’s CEO-turned Atlanta radio [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger The Democratic Party is the oldest of the two major U.S. political parties.  It was first organized in the early 1790s by anti-federalists, led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as the Democratic-Republican Party.  Unlike the Democratic Party of today, it was distinguishable by its support for states’ rights [...]

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