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 ...

Representative Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for senator from Missouri, became nationally notorious yesterday for saying something stupid. In the course of explaining why he believes abortion ...

Under fire for his comments about rape and abortion, the Missouri Senate candidate is under pressure from his own party to drop out before the end... Update: Akin Vows Again To Stay In Missouri Senate ...

Embattled Republican Congressman Todd Akin (R-MO) is digging in, and digging his hole deeper, telling Mike Huckabee, on his radio show, that he has already decided not to exit the Missouri race for US ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Written off by many in his own party a mere month ago, Republican Rep. Todd Akin has been slowly rebuilding his Senate campaign after apologizing for inflammatory remarks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rep. Todd Akin’s decision this week to stay in the Missouri Senate race despite voter outrage over his “legitimate rape” comments has fired up conservatives who are planning to pour supporters and ...

The former Republican representative from Missouri was widely criticized after saying in 2012 that women’s bodies could reject pregnancies that were the result of a sexual assault. By Livia ...

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 ...