The advance crew for a Barack Obama rally in St. Louis today certainly performed above and beyond -- a throng estimated at 100,000, a figure a police official signed off on, jammed into the city's Gateway Arch to hear the candidate hold forth.  

A large gathering also was massing in the evening for an Obama appearance across the state in Kansas City.

But rather than get a raise, might those hard-working Obama staffers in Missouri need to fear for their jobs? We ask, mainly