Political endorsements and the promise of PAC dollars have come streaming back to Representative Todd Akin, who’s challenging incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill for the U.S. Senate seat in Missouri.
Brookings senior scholar Thomas E. Mann is author (with Norman Ornstein) of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.
Democratic U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri is no stranger to the rough and tumble world of politics. After all, she’s been at it for three decades in a state that is traditionally tough on Democrats.
