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Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 9, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. According to the Mayan calendar, the world's about to end thi ... More >>

The Fitz's Election Results Are In: Did Romney Beat Obama in Root Beer Sales?

With the 2012 Presidential election cycle coming to a close next Tuesday, November 6, we at Gut Check need to check in with our ever-so-technical election predictor, the election-themed root beer sales at Fitz's Bottling Company (6605 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-726-9555), one final time. ... More >>

Update: Fitz's Presidential Election Root Beer Battle Wages On

The presidential debates might be over but with the election just weeks away, a final heated two weeks loom large on the political landscape. Will Governor Mitt Romney beat President Barack Obama? We're not soothsayers or Nate Silver, so we don't have answers about which candidate will triumph. Ins ... More >>

Is Fitz's Limited Edition Obama Root Beer Bottle Still Outselling The Romney?

Election day is fast approaching, and with the implacable persistance of a robo-pollster Gut Check continues to track the polls sales of soda at Fitz's American Grill & Bottling Works (6605 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-726-9555) to see who has the edge in this year's election. Last time w ... More >>

Fitz's Releases Limited Edition Obama and Romney Root Beer Bottles

There are many ways to track a political race, from the traditional polling the electorate to wunderkind Nate Silver's statistical analyses on New York Times' Five Thirty Eight blog. Gut Check, however, does things a little differently. You see, during this election season, Fitz's American Grill & ... More >>

What People Are Saying About Santorum's Missouri Win

​Last night Rick Santorum swept the primaries in Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado. As expected, his most decisive victory was in Missouri, where he took all 114 county for a 55 percent runaway, more than doubling Mitt Romney's 25 percent. In many ways, it's a hollow success. It didn't count towa ... More >>

Kevin Jackson wrote the book on how to win (white) friends and influence (black) people

FiveThirtyEight and NYT: Polls Indicate Robin Carnahan is Totally Screwed

Image viaNo Horsing Around: Carnahan needs a miracle to beat Blunt.​To the untrained eye, the race for Missouri's senate seat between Robin Carnahan and Roy Blunt looks like a toss-up.  A tenacious battle between a longtime Republican congressman with a carefully crafted aw-shucks demeanor an ... More >>

Analysis Argues KFC Double Down Unhealthier Than You Think

Ian Froeb​You can say many things about the KFC Double Down "sandwich" of bacon and cheese between two fried (or grilled) chicken-breast fillets -- Gut Check called it a triumph of marketing over substance, and we might have been kinder than the average response -- but at 540 calories, you can't s ... More >>

Two of a Kind: Clayton High grad Sean Quinn and poker buddy/baseball stat head Nate Silver crunch the Electoral College numbers on FiveThirtyEight.com

FiveThirtyEight.com's Sean Quinn Previews Tonight's VP Debate