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Clinton makes case for wide appeal
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent...(close)Related info:
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Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too
ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton's support among superdelegates, according to the ABC News delegate estimate.
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McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam
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Obama picks up 9 superdelegates, union endorsement
Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.(close)Related info:
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Obama picks up 3 more Illinois superdelegates: Daley, Currie and Stroger. (5/1/2008) 
Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too (5/9/2008) - You all voted for Obama, but the Superdelegates put Hillary in the lead (2/6/2008)
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Sen. Clinton and the Campaign
We believe it is Senator Hillary Clinton’s right to stay in the fight and challenge Senator Barack Obama as long as she has the desire and the means to do so.
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Clinton's campaign loans raise concerns about Bill's income
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton's decision to lend her presidential campaign $6.4 million from assets she holds jointly with her husband is rekindling questions about millions of dollars that special interests have paid Bill Clinton for speeches and other work since he left the White House.
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall April 4, 2007 11:59 PM (4/6/2007) - For Clinton, New Wealth In Speeches (2/23/2007)
Obama plans to declare victory May 20
One candidate will claim to be nominee while other vigorously denies it.Declarations
This is an amazing story. The Democratic Party has a winner. It has a nominee. You know this because he has the most votes and the most elected delegates, and there's no way, mathematically, his opponent can get past him. Even after the worst two weeks of his campaign, he blew past her by 14 in North Carolina and came within two in Indiana.(close)Related info:
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Obama's Remarks in Raleigh, North Carolina (5/7/2008)
Latest updates on top stories Blog Archive - Clinton supporter pressures Pelosi over White House battle «
WASHINGTON — In a heated phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late last month, Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign money to congressional Democrats unless Pelosi embraced a new plan by the movie mogul to finance a revote of the Democratic presidential primaries in Florida and Michigan, according to three officials who were briefed on the contents of the conversation.
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- Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too (5/9/2008)
U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat
More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show.(close)Related info:
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Bolton on whether Bush might bomb Iran before he leaves office: ‘I think so, definitely.’
In a Fox News interview this afternoon, former UN Ambassador John Bolton discussed his desire to bomb camps inside Iran that are reportedly training and arming Shiite insurgents who fight in Iraq. Fox host Martha McCallum asked, “Can you imagine a scenario where President Bush would do that before the end of his term?” Bolton responded, “I think so, definitely.” He added later, “This is entirely responsible on our part.” Watch it: Asked by McCallum whether Israel would be supportive of the strikes given the possibility of Iranian retaliation, Bolton responded, “I think they’d be delighted(close)Related info:
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Thinking About November
Barack Obama has an extraordinary opportunity in this year’s election. He should do everything possible to avoid squandering it.Oil Lobby Reaches Out to Citizens Peeved at the Pump
Faced with a national outcry over the high price of gasoline and soaring profits for energy companies, the oil and gas industry is waging an unusually pricey campaign to burnish its image.
Cindy McCain Refuses to Release Her Tax Returns... Ever
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It's Obama, Warts and All
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each took a state Tuesday. But the result was a damaging loss for the woman who was once the overwhelming front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Here are some observations on the race: - Mr. Obama is now the prohibitive favorite. Tuesday night, he took at least 94 delegates to Mrs. Clinton's 75 and leads the former First Lady by 176 delegates in the AP tabulation. He has 1,840 of the 2,025 delegates needed to win. Mr. Obama needs only 185 – or 38% – of the 486 outstanding delegates (217 to be elected in the six remaining contests, and 269 superdelegates yet to endorse a candidate).
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Delegates (3/5/2008) - Super Delegates To Determine Nominee (2/5/2008)
- You all voted for Obama, but the Superdelegates put Hillary in the lead (2/6/2008)
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- Clinton makes case for wide appeal (5/8/2008)
UPDATE: Nuns strike back.
Surely, our majority-Catholic Supreme Court should have known better than to get on the wrong side of the Sisters. As we wrote earlier, the first victims of the new ruling on Voter ID were elderly nuns in Indiana.
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Obama's Consolidation of the Party
Over 1.25 million Indianans voted yesterday for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primary. Over 1.1 million Indianans voted for Jill Long Thompson or Jim Schellinger in the Democratic primary for Governor of Indiana. In 2004, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry received 969,000 votes in the state of Indiana...in the general election. That is stunning. The primary has been exceptionally good for party building.
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For Hillary Clinton, no 'clear path to victory' -- nor to an exit
She's darting around the country like a full-fledged presidential candidate, but within Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's circle of advisors and donors, the conversation has turned to how she can make a dignified exit from the race.(close)Related info:
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McCain's Pastor Problem: The Video
In a taped sermon, the preacher McCain calls a "spiritual guide" calls on America to see the "false religion" of Islam "destroyed." Still, the candidate won't reject Rod Parsley's endorsement.(close)Related info:
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100 Years War (4/2/2008)
The Card Clinton Is Playing
Clinton's sin isn't racism, it's arrogance.
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Race Is All the Clintons Have Left
Sitting there on the set, listening to the endless wrap-ups and explanation of the exit polls, I was on the verge of faking my own death on national TV in order to go talk to myself about the obvious, unspoken equation in the little there is left to this fight between Obama and Clinton. The beast that is nearly always there in American life, the danger that rustles the shrubs at the edge of our daily existence -- race -- was routinely ignored in the recitation of numbers pouring out of North Carolina and Indiana.
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Rocket hits BBC bureau in Baghdad
Shiite militants launched rockets toward the fortified Green Zone on Friday, taking advantage of a sandstorm that gave cover from attacks by U.S. aircraft. Some rockets fell short, including one that damaged the British Broadcasting Corp. bureau.(close)Related info:
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Max Boot Compares Walled Baghdad Neighborhoods To American Gated Communties
Today, Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Max Boot continued to cheerlead for the “success” of the surge in Iraq in an online debate. Boot insisted that Iraq has met two-thirds of the original 18 benchmarks, that the government’s offensive in Basra was successful, and that the so-called Sons of Iraq will always remain loyal to the Shiite-controlled Iraqi state.
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Clinton Supporters Send Last-Ditch Obama Attack Emails To Supers
As the Democratic primary nears its long-awaited conclusion, undecided superdelegates have been drowned under a sudden deluge of angry, sometimes vicious emails from Hillary Clinton supporters urging them to not fall in line behind Barack Obama. The letter writing campaign picked up steam late Thursday evening when several superdelegates confirmed that a coordinated effort had been launched, apparently independent of Clinton&aposs campaign, to raise last-minute concerns about Obama&aposs candidacy and present the specter of voter defections should the Illinois Democrat become the nominee.
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Great tits cope well with warming
Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds.McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidenti...(close)Related info:
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