Tag: Clinton
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Get ready to be disappointed.
Gail Collins makes a good point in today’s New York Times. Addressing the growing chorus of folks on the Left who have expressed dismay over Senator Obama’s so-called shift to the center, including the Times’ own Bob Herbert and most recently the Rev. Jesse Jackson, she notes that Obama’s been in the center all along:…
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Clinton outmaneuvered
Story by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer, Fri May 30 Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul. Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama’s staff researched congressional districts in states with primaries that were months away. What they found were opportunities to…
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Striking distance
Obama about to clinch victory, aide says From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney (CNN) – Barack Obama will formally capture the Democratic presidential nomination soon after next week’s final primaries, the Illinois senator’s top campaign aide is predicting. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said that after…
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in politics . . .
ChattahBox A First Lady of a different kind CNN – 50 minutes ago By Jonathan Mann (CNN) — Take a brilliant, strong-willed, American woman. Let her marry a rising politician, start a family, build a successful legal career, and then emerge as a polished public figure in her own right. The War Over Michelle Obama…
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in politics . . .
Elections New York Daily News DC meeting could bring compromise on Michigan, Florida delegates New York Daily News – 1 hour ago Busloads of Hillary Clinton supporters will swarm a meeting next week at a DC Marriott, where Democratic Party elders hope to forge a compromise over Florida and Michigan’s now-voided convention delegates. Video: Victory…
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Obama seeks focus on end of primary campaign
EUGENE, Oregon (AP) — Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party’s presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa, where his solid win in January caucuses propelled him to his status as the front-runner. Obama was campaigning Saturday for primaries Tuesday in Oregon…
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Florida, Michigan cannot save Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) – Michigan and Florida alone can’t save Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states’ banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady’s best-case scenario. Her position, part of a formidable comeback challenge, is that all the delegates be seated in accordance with…
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A shot in the foot
Ben Smith, the irrepressible Politico.com blogger, has been paying attention. The details of Hillary Rodham Clinton latest mailings don’t quite add up. In a piece titled Clinton mailing’s gun gaffe, points out Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on…
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A New York Times editorial
April 23, 2008 Editorial The Low Road to Victory The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it. Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and…
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She (Annie Oakley) wins
Hillary Clinton Pennsylvania Primary Victory Speech Barack Obama Post-Pennsylvania Primary Speech Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin