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Yesterday my daughter and I attended a massive Sarah Palin rally in Springfield, Missouri. Springfield is Missouri's third-largest city. Officially, it has a population of 150,000. When you include outlying communities, it's probably more like 200,000 people in the area. Local news has estimated the crowd that turned out at 20,000! This is good news in this battleground state. Every election, it seems to be basically us in Springfield and the entire rest of the state against the big-city liberals in Kansas City and St. Louis. And in St. Louis, they bring out the dead. Heck, they've even been known...

-- SNIP Among the 800 likely Missouri voters polled last week, 48 percent backed Obama, while 47 percent favored McCain. Three percent preferred one of three third-party candidates, and two percent were undecided. Although statistically insignificant, Obama's lead is his first in Missouri against McCain in any Research 2000 polls this year. The previous poll, in late September, showed McCain with a one-point edge. -- SNIP Ali says Obama's strength with voters on economic issues is undoubtedly helping his cause. More than half of those polled in Missouri (52 percent) said they trusted his judgment more on the economy, compared...

ST. LOUIS (AP)—Blues goalie Manny Legace left after one period Friday night with a hip injury that occurred when he slipped on the carpet placed on the ice for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Alaska governor dropped the ceremonial first puck before the Blues hosted the Los Angeles Kings. A narrow carpet walkway was placed from the gate at the Blues bench to center ice for Palin, her husband and two of her daughters.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin dropped the ceremonial first puck at an NHL game for the second time this month. The Alaska governor and self-described "hockey mom" got more cheers than boos Friday night before the St. Louis Blues hosted the Los Angeles Kings.

View Sarah Palin's rally in Springfield MO, via live video feed from tv station KSPR. http://www.kspr.com/ She is scheduled to speak at 12:00 Noon Central Time Also check CNN.com . They have been carrying a lot of her rallies. Also check at http://www.ustream.tv/ . You have to scroll down and look for John McCain. This site is not very reliable, but is worth a try when all else fails.

<p>ST. LOUIS - Republican vice-presidential candidate and self-proclaimed "hockey mom" Sarah Palin will drop the ceremonial first puck Friday night at the St. Louis Blues' game against the Los Angeles Kings.</p> <p>The Blues say the Alaska governor and running mate of Republican John McCain confirmed Wednesday that she'll make a stop at Scottrade Center.</p>

Published Wed, Oct 22, 2008 7:29 PM ST. LOUIS Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will drop the ceremonial first puck Friday night before the St. Louis Blues' game against the Los Angeles Kings. The Alaska governor and self-described "hockey mom" also dropped the first puck Oct. 11 before Philadelphia's home opener against the New York Rangers. Palin has an appearance Friday at Missouri State University in Springfield.

The Green County GOP has announced that because of overwhelming demand, the location of the Friday 11:00 a.m. Sarah Palin Road to Victory Rally in Springfield, MO has been moved from Missouri State University's McDonald Arena to the Bass Pro Shop Parking lot at 1935 S. Campbell (corner of Campbell and Sunshine). McDonald Arena only seats 4,000 people, and all of the available tickets were gone shortly after they were made available this morning at 9:00 a.m. Many who stood in long lines at GOP headquarters in both Green and Christian counties hoping to get tickets were not able to...

Story Updated: Oct 22, 2008 at 6:24 PM CDT By Gene Hartley SPRINGFIELD -- People eager to see and hear vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin quickly snatched up the 4,000 available tickets to her rally on Friday. The demand and the number of disappointed people caused the McCain-Obama campaign and Republican Party officials to scramble Wednesday to move it to a bigger site than McDonald Arena at Missouri State University. Just before 6 p.m, party officials said the rally would be at a parking lot outside Bass Pro Shops' Outdoor World store at the corner of Sunshine Street at Campbell Avenue....

Suffolk University presidential poll of 600 likely Missouri voters (11 electoral votes). THE NUMBERS: John McCain 45 percent, Barack Obama 44 percent. OF INTEREST: Of the Obama supporters, 14 percent said a factor in their position was a desire to vote against President Bush, while 6 percent said their vote was against McCain. About 21 percent of McCain's supporters said a factor in their stance was the desire to vote against Obama, while 4 percent said it was a vote for vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. DETAILS: The poll was conducted Oct. 16-19. It involved telephone interviews with 600 likely...

(CBS) Countering new criticism of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, Gov. Matt Blunt, R-Mo., called her the "perfect candidate" for his state. "I can take Sarah Palin to my Stratford hometown or any community in our state and she would immediately connect with people," Blunt said on CBS News' Face The Nation. "She understands the real world. She understands the struggles that ordinary families face. She is the type of person we need in Washington, D.C. She's a proven reformer. And she's been a great help in Missouri, as we move forward this campaign." Blunt was responding to statements...

ST. LOUIS — Hours before Sen. Barack Obama had even landed here Saturday, this city's mass transit system and downtown streets were packed with people headed to see the presidential hopeful who hails from the state across the river. The sea of humanity that came to stand under the Gateway Arch eventually grew to what a police official estimated was 100,000 people, the largest domestic crowd Obama has assembled during his campaign. The massive gathering—followed by an evening event in Kansas City that his campaign said drew at least 75,000—created a powerful image of strength in a bellwether state that...

Democrat Barack Obama said today the winds of change were blowing across America as he roused monster crowds totalling more than 175,000 in the Republican "red" state of Missouri. - 175,000 gather - Change is coming: Obama - Faces Republican stronghold Republican John McCain, fighting a rearguard offensive before the November 4 presidential election, insisted that Obama's economic plan would "kill" job creation as the United States weathers its worst financial crisis in decades. "At least in Europe, the Socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are upfront about their objectives," he said in his weekly radio address. Obama, 47,...

Barack Obama apparently attracted more people to his rally today in St. Louis than to his August acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver. Lt. Samuel Dotson of the St. Louis Police Department placed the crowd count at 100,000 people, according to the campaign. "All I can say is, 'Wow,'" Obama said just after taking the stage underneath the Gatway Arch. Politico called Dotson to confirm the crowd figure but has not yet heard back. If the number is verified, it would be Obama's largest American crowd, second only to the 200,000 people who turned out for his speech in...

Senator McCaskell lied about what Sarah Palin said in North Carolina.

For what it's worth... Video feed from St.Louis/Obama rally

ST. LOUIS - Under the Gateway to the West, the St. Louis arch, Barack Obama addressed an estimated 100,000 people in the “red” Show Me State just 17 days before the general election - his biggest rally to date in the United States.

KANSAS CITY - Missouri voter Mary Kay Green has had enough. The supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama filed a lawsuit this week over what she claims is dangerous “hate speech” coming from the rival campaign of Republican presidential nominee John McCain. Green, a 66-year-old grandmother and “semi-retired” civil rights attorney, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas City this week accusing McCain, his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and their campaign manager Rick Davis of “intentionally, recklessly and irresponsibly” portraying Obama “as un-American, a terrorist by association, and ‘not like us,’ a non-white individual.” Palin,...

Barack Obama's presidential campaign tonight formally announced the senator's Saturday visit to Kansas City. Place: Liberty Memorial. Time: Gates open at 4 p.m. No word yet on when the actual event begins. His topic: The economy. The outdoor event is free. No tickets required, but the campaign urges those planning to attend to RSVP, and you can do that right here. For more information, call 816-820-6747. Obama will begin his day in St. Louis with a late-morning rally under the Gateway Arch.

In Missouri, John McCain's Lead Among White Voters Has Evaporated: In an election for President of the United States in battleground Missouri today, 10/13/08, three weeks until votes are counted, Democrat Barack Obama has momentum and a meaningful advantage in SurveyUSA's latest tracking poll, conducted for KMOX radio in St Louis and KCTV-TV in Kansas City. The contest in Missouri has swung 10-points to Obama since SurveyUSA's last track point, 3 weeks ago. Then, McCain led by 2. Today, Obama leads, 51% to 43%. Among white voters, McCain had led by 11. Today, tied. There is movement among men, where...