The Tangerine Twit wanted to put Bill Clinton’s accusers in his family box. Debate officials said no.


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Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill says she now believes that gay couples should be allowed to marry, a change from her previously nuanced stance during last year's re-election campaign in which she defended the right of Missouri voters to outlaw same-sex weddings.

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Most Republicans and conservative Democrats still do not support marriage equality

Support for gay marriage is picking up steam all over the country - except on Capitol Hill.

Take Sen. Saxby Chambliss. When asked if his views had changed on gay marriage, the Georgia Republican quipped: “I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.”

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Missouri Republican Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin was arrested at least eight times in the 1980s at anti-abortion protests, according to newly obtained records.

That is four arrests in addition to four the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported last month based on a review of its contemporaneous coverage of protests. The four additional arrests each ( Read more... )

Todd Akin’s militia ties exposed 

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Senate candidate Todd Akin (R-MO), who is still trying to make it up to women since he suggested that victims of “legitimate rape” cannot become pregnant, blew another hole in his pro-woman persona on Thursday when he said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is not as “ladylike” as she was in 2006.

In an interview with the Kansas City Star, Akin implied ( Read more... )

On the day that Republican leaders had hoped Todd Akin would drop out of the Senate race, the defiant GOP nominee launched a statewide bus tour with renewed backing from fiscal and antiabortion conservatives.Alongside more than 100 supporters, many of them faith leaders at conservative congregations, the GOP candidate whose campaign was upended by ( Read more... )

More than two weeks after Republican Todd Akin stunned Missouri with his comments about rape victims, Democrats are convinced that the Senate race remains so intensely competitive that Claire McCaskill could lose in November."It's going to be a close election, people," Democratic Secretary of State Robin Carnahan told Missouri delegates Tuesday ( Read more... )