Congressman Todd Akin

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Claire McCaskill has won re-election in Missouri, holding off Rep. Todd Akin who came under fire for saying women had ways of preventing pregnancies in the case of "legitimate rape." McCaskill's victory denies Republicans a seat they'd hoped to pick up before Akin's comments. Democrats have picked up two Senate seats […]

FESTUS, Mo. (AP) — An aide to Todd Akin on Monday used a profanity in a tweet to extend the GOP Senate hopeful's weekend analogy comparing Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill to a "dog" who fetches problems from Washington. Meanwhile, McCaskill launched a campaign tour with a series of small-town stops aimed at improving her showing […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Embattled GOP Congressman Todd Akin has made good on his promise to stay in Missouri's U.S. Senate race despite calls by top Republicans to quit following his comments about rape. The final deadline for candidates to remove their names from the Missouri ballot passed Tuesday as Akin began a statewide […]

If hypocrisy were bat guano, we’d all be hip deep in the stuff by now. Everybody wants to get in his or her two cents worth about Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” quote, and frankly, I can’t blame folks. If there are two words that absolutely, positively do NOT belong together, even in the […]

Reverend Al Sharpton discusses with TJMS whether or not Rep. Akin’s commens on voting rights and civil rights are as bad as his statement on women.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama is mocking Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri for his remarks about a woman's body being able to avoid pregnancy during what Akin called a "legitimate rape." Obama tells a group of donors in New York that the Republican congressman from Missouri "somehow missed science class" even though […]

DENVER (AP) — Meet the newest campaign issue for House Democrats: Todd Akin. From Colorado to New Hampshire to Illinois, Democrats already are using the incendiary comments about rape made by the Missouri congressman and Republican Senate candidate as a political bludgeon. In interviews, news releases and tweets, they've blasted Akin for saying victims of […]

No one should be all that shocked that Todd Akin believes that women’s bodies are biologically equipped to repel the sperm of rapists. The Missouri GOP congressman does, after all, belong to a party in which ideology has been easing out intelligence for a long time. It’s the party that has, for example, long fought […]

Gabrielle Union is very angry about comments made by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin recently about rape. Akin, who opposes abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, told an interviewer over the weekend that in cases of “legitimate rape,” women won’t get pregnant. Monday, on MSNBC’s “NOW with Alex Wagner,” Union, a participant in […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Rep. Todd Akin apologized Monday for his televised comments that women's bodies are able to prevent pregnancies if they are victims of "a legitimate rape," but he refused to heed calls to abandon his bid for the Senate. Appearing on former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's radio show, Akin said rape […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, the conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate, quickly backed off comments that aired earlier Sunday, in which he told an interviewer that a woman's body "has ways" to prevent pregnancy during rape and that such pregnancies are "really rare." Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat Sen. […]