Politics is tribal. When a candidate commits a typical gaffe, his opponents attack while his allies mount a defense. That’s just the way it goes. But once in a while, a candidate says something so ...

After calling Akin’s comments “wrong and foolish,” Davis opined that Akin is “not going to win this race and it’s very possible that he could cost Mitt Romney this state,” adding that his “are beyond ...

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After Republican Rep. Todd Akin's inflammatory comments over the weekend in which he blithely minimized rape-induced pregnancies, there are at least two inescapable questions: 1) What impact will his ...

Former conservative Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has died. Akin’s son, Perry, said in a statement that his father died late Sunday at age 74 from cancer. Akin’s comment in 2012 that ...

A Columbia, Mo.-area television station says it has pulled Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-Mo.) ads off the air because it has only received half the payment for them, CBS reports, stoking speculation that he ...

Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin won’t be exiting the race today, his deadline for doing so. "Staying in the race, as we've said," Ryan Hite, the campaign's communications director, said ...

It may be too little, too late for Rep. Todd Akin. The Republican candidate for Senate from Missouri is seeing an influx of money in the closing days of his campaign. Still, it would come as a ...

Todd Akin said something stupid when he uttered the words "legitimate rape," and after at first being shunned by the Republican Party, he is being welcomed back. But there are two Missouri politicians ...