The power of an incumbent President to raise campaign funds for others  has paid off for Senator McCaskill, who had President Obama as the star of her fund-raising event last night in St.Louis. Tickets cost 25-dollars to 25-thousand dollars to attend with the big donors getting up-close to the President and the smaller donors getting to stand next to a wall.

McCaskill says some of the money will go into her campaign war chest but a lot of it will help with candidates in this year’s elections. She’ll have to wait for the final accounting before she knows how much she’ll get and how it will be spent. [Audio after the jump] [Read more...]