Todd Akin will announce whether he’s staying in the Missouri Senate race, on Mike Huckabee’s radio show, in the next half hour, Huckabee just tweeted:

Todd Akin will return to The Mike Huckabee Radio Show in the next 30 minutes to announce his final decision on if he’s staying in the race.

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 21, 2012

Stay tuned.

Todd Akin reiterates that he’s staying in the Missouri Senate race.

Romney is loudly promising voters no cuts to Medicare benefits under his plan — while Team Romney concedes benefit cuts will be necessary under his Medicare plan

When the Missouri Senate race is still neck and neck next month, or into October, which national Republican outfit will suck it up and start putting money back into the race? The NRSC? The superpacs?

We’ll have a brief “discussion” of whether attack ads on Claire McCaskill count as support for Todd Akin, the man national Republicans have just denounced. But it won’t last long.

The high-minded denunciations will give way to the practical reality that control of the Senate could very well come down to the outcome in Missouri. Facts is facts.

Romney ups the ante, explicitly tells Akin to drop out.

I think we’re at the point where we can say the Akin debacle is moving in a direction national Republicans distinctly don’t want it to go in. After categorically refusing to drop out of the race, Todd Akin has now come out with graphic new imagery of a fetus to push his call for support from pro-lifers.

Clearly Akin wants to stay and he seems intent on creating a ‘with me or a against me’ choice for committed pro-lifers as his main gambit in his bid to hang on.

Social conservative Bryan Fischer says the person who’s really being raped is Todd Akin.

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Todd Akin tweets to the masses, says he won’t let the liberal media force him out of the race.

I apologized but the liberal media is trying to make me drop out. Please stand w/ me tonight by signing my petition at akin.org/still-standing

— Todd Akin (@ToddAkin) August 22, 2012

Over the weekend, Doug Preisse, chair of the Republican Party in Franklin County, Ohio, explained that he had no interest in “contorting” early voting rules in his county to “accommodate the urban–read African-American — voter turnout machine.”

The sentiment was not unusual coming from a partisan Republican but the context was: Preisse also serves as a member of the county’s election board, along with another Republican and two Democrats. He had voted against extending early voting. The board sets many of the rules for the counting and casting of votes and resolves election disputes. Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted, a Republican elected official, breaks election board ties throughout the state.

The battle over voter identification laws is only one front in the voting wars. Today, we turn our attention to the issue of who runs our elections and how they do it. We are one of the only mature democratic nations to allow partisans to run our elections, and to give local officials, often underfunded and sometimes incompetent, control over key aspects of the voting process. Read More