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Claire Mccaskill
Todd Akin Exposed the Republican Party’s Abortion Extremism Talk of “legitimate rape” from the former congressman, who died this week, led to GOP losses in 2012. Today’s Republicans could experience déjà vu.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 6, 2018
Josh Hawley Under Investigation for Letting Campaign Run His Public Office A media probe uncovered some funny business with campaign consultants ordering his state employee staff around.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 22, 2018
Dems Still Have a Good Shot at Flipping House, But Senate Is an Uphill Battle Fifteen days before the midterms, polls show the House going blue, but the GOP is likely to maintain Senate control, or even pick up a seat or two.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 19, 2018
Senator Claire McCaskill Says She Will Not Vote to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh She calls the allegations against him disturbing, but says that is not the reason for her decision.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
Most ‘Trump Ten’ Democratic Senators Doing Better Than Trump in Their States The president isn’t nearly as strong as he was in 2016 in many states where Democratic senators are running for reelection this year.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Greitens Avenge Himself on Missouri GOP With an Indie Run for the Senate? It could be a sign that God really loves incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill, whose last opponent imploded.
By Ed Kilgore
The Clintons Will Keep a Low Profile in the Midterms For the first time since the 1980s, Bill and Hillary are not likely to be major factors in a national election.
By Ed Kilgore
Another Day, Another Set of Scandalous Claims Against Missouri Governor Greitens Greitens was already facing calls to resign over a sex scandal. Now he’s been accused of illegally using his charity’s donor list and lying about it.
By Ed Kilgore
Missouri’s Attorney General Recommends More Charges for Governor Greitens The Missouri governor’s already on trial for felony violation of privacy. Now the state’s attorney general is recommending campaign-finance charges.
By Ed Kilgore
Democratic Senate Looking Like a Reach — Again Prospects for a Democratic Senate after the midterms have waxed and waned, but it may be tough for Democrats to hang on in deep red states.
By Ed Kilgore
Is Democratic Cooperation With Trump Depressing Supporters? You can’t rant and snarl every minute, and when your opponent is Donald Trump, he’ll do much of the work of mobilizing your base.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Just Flipped Their 35th State Legislative Seat Republicans are gaining in the polls, but Democrats keep wildly overperforming in special elections.
By Eric Levitz
Josh Hawley Goes Off the Deep End on the Sexual Revolution and Human Trafficking The main difference between today’s GOP Senate candidate in Missouri and the hapless Todd Akin is some Ivy League polish.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s W.H. Stops Feigning Bipartisanship Because It Has No Legislative Agenda For Trump and Pence, “bipartisanship” now means attacking centrist Democrats for not supporting them in 2017.
By Ed Kilgore
Vulnerable Democratic Senators Mostly Above Water; a Wave Could Keep Them There Approval ratio numbers for senators show a predictable erosion of support for Democrats running in red states. But they’re hanging in there.
By Ed Kilgore
Democratic Senators Call on Al Franken to Resign After a seventh woman accused Franken of sexual harassment Wednesday, several of the senator’s colleagues called on him to step down.
By Eric Levitz
2018 Senate Overview: The Pro-GOP Landscape Is Turning Blue Trump’s unpopularity, strong Democratic incumbents, and some luck are benefiting the party that would’ve expected to lose badly in 2018 Senate races.
By Ed Kilgore
Roy Moore’s Troubles Could Open a Door to a Democratic Senate It’s early days, but allegations of predatory behavior by the Alabamian could reduce the GOP’s Senate margin to one vote.
By Ed Kilgore
Four Female Senators Share Their #MeToo Harassment Stories Senators Elizabeth Warren, Heidi Heitkamp, Claire McCaskill, and Mazie Hirono open up about harassment.
By Lisa Ryan
Red-State Democrats Have No Good Excuse for Backing Trump’s Tax Plan The electoral benefits of dealing the GOP total legislative failure outweigh those of backing Trump’s unpopular tax policies.
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Tax Speech Empty of Tax Specifics, Budget Context It’s bad enough that the president’s “tax speech” had not a single specific proposal. He also didn’t mention how it would fit into the federal budget.
By Ed Kilgore
Things Are Looking Up for Democratic Senators in Trump Country Six Senate Democrats running for reelection in states easily carried by Trump last year are benefitting from strong popularity and GOP fecklessness.
By Ed Kilgore
Claire McCaskill Calls Out GOP for Crafting Health-Care Bill Behind Closed Doors “There’s a group of guys in a back room somewhere that are making these decisions.”
By Claire Landsbaum
Maybe Senate Democrats Aren’t in Such Bad Shape for 2018 With a horrific electoral landscape, it was thought Democrats would lose Senate seats even if they did well in the House. But things are looking up.
By Ed Kilgore
women in politics
Nov. 2, 2016
By Claire Landsbaum
ballpark frankness
Aug. 20, 2015
Drinking Beer With Senator Claire McCaskill “I get in trouble all the time for saying what I think. All. The. Time.”
By Marin Cogan
Claire McCaskill Will Not Be Trolled by James Taranto The Missouri Senator responds to Taranto’s claims of a “war on men.”
By Kat Stoeffel
binders full of women
June 3, 2013
By Kat Stoeffel
equal rites
Mar. 24, 2013
By Adam Martin
the end of 2012
Dec. 31, 2012
The Year of the ‘Year of the Woman’ America wanted 2012 to be about women. Was it?
By Ann Friedman
election 2012
Nov. 1, 2012
By Ann Friedman
todd achin’
Oct. 24, 2012
By Adam Martin
todd achin’
Oct. 22, 2012
By Dan Amira
master debaters
Oct. 19, 2012
By Adam Martin
early and awkward
Aug. 21, 2012
By Joe Coscarelli
shmashmortion
Aug. 20, 2012
McCaskill Says Akin Must Stay Nominee Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill says replacing Akin would be “pretty radical.”
By Dan Amira
hands across america
Nov. 18, 2010
By Nitasha Tiku
early and often
Aug. 26, 2008
Heilemann: Emerging Themes From a Different Kind of Convention Obama has had a rough August, and he needs this convention to really hit the bull’s-eye or he’ll be in serious trouble.
By John Heilemann
