via CNN Republican Rep. Todd Akin isn’t budging. Despite calls from his party establishment to drop out — including a personal phone call from vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan — Akin said Wednesday he is staying in the Senate race. “The people of Missouri chose me to be their candidate. And I don’t believe it’s […]

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Besides engaging in what is arguably considered a vicious war on women, the GOP is shaping up not to be the brightest box of crayons…

(CNN) — A defiant Republican Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri said Tuesday that he will stay in the Senate race to unseat Democrat Claire McCaskill…

via Mediaite President Barack Obama took questions from the White House press corps for the first time in several weeks during Monday’s press briefing. Obama was asked for his comments on Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin’s controversial statement in which he said that a woman’s body has the natural ability to abort a pregnancy that […]