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5:40 pm
Fri September 28, 2012

Akin Defends 'Unladylike' Characterization, Regains Support From Top GOP

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Republican Congressman Todd Akin.
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U.S. Senate Candidate Todd Akin is dismissing the controversy over his use of the word “ladylike” to describe his opponent, Claire McCaskill.

Referring to the first debate between the two candidates Akin said that McCaskill wasn’t behaving as “ladylike” as she did in her first campaign for Senate in 2006.

McCaskill rebuked Akin’s choice of words during an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, saying that she is once again "at a loss" to describe Todd Akin.

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Politics
6:27 am
Fri September 28, 2012

Political Collection At Mercantile Library 'Makes History Real'

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This gold bug pin comes from the 1896 presidential campaign by Republican presidential candidate William McKinley, who supported the gold standard. At one time the wings would actually flap.
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A campaign button for Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, who ran against Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. Dunn-Morton says Willkie’s strategy was to flood the country with his campaign buttons in an effort to gain name recognition.
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The peanut was an instantly recognizable representation of Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, a former peanut farmer from Georgia.
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The Dr. Allen B. & Helen S. Shopmaker Political Collection includes more than 4,000 items and is now held by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
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This Sunday an exhibition called “Presidents and Politics” opens at the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis.

The campaign buttons, posters and cartoons on display seem quaint compared to this year’s high-tech presidential race, but they also show American politics has always been spirited.

The memorabilia is part of the Dr. Allen B. and Helen S. Shopmaker Political Collection, a gift to the Mercantile Library.

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2:13 pm
Thu September 27, 2012

Mapped: Voter ID Requirements In All 50 States

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The bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures has put together an interesting interactive map of Voter ID requirements in all 50 states. Check it out via the link. How do you feel about requiring an ID to vote?
Summary of state requirements for voter ID at the polls.
Read More: http://www.ncsl.org

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