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May 2008
- On RFK, Clinton Should Have Known Better
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 24, 08 10:25 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton used history to make a point, but her RFK gaffe provides a valuable lesson for those studying it: “There are taboos in presidential politics, and this is one of the biggest,” Libby Copeland writes in the Washington Post . Clinton has apologized for referring to the assassination in her rationale for staying in the race, but her comments “broke a double taboo,” because many fear Obama’s race makes him a bigger target. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • apology • Robert F. Kennedy
- Clinton's RFK Remark Sparks Fear, Outrage
  
  newser | New York Times | May 23, 08 7:54 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton whipped up a storm of anger today by invoking Bobby Kennedy's murder as grounds for staying in the Democratic race, the New York Times reports. Recalling the surprise outcomes of past contests, including her husband’s in 1992, the senator told editors at a South Dakota newspaper that “we all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California" in 1968. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • election 2008 • Bill Clinton • Democratic nomination • apology • press conference • Robert Kennedy
- No, She Isn’t Winning the Popular Vote
  
  newser | Newsweek | May 22, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton’s insistence that she’s winning the popular vote not only promotes a meaningless rubric in a delegate contest, but it's also a dangerous claim—and a false one, Jonathan Alter writes in Newsweek . Not only is Clinton trampling on old sore spots (think Al Gore in 2000), but she’s also in the wrong, Alter asserts, then runs through the math. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • Florida primary • Michigan primary • popular vote • caucuses
- Clinton Ready to Take It to Convention
  
  newser | New York Times | May 22, 08 8:39 AM CDT
  
  A defiant Hillary Clinton signaled yesterday that she might take the nomination fight all the way to the convention, the New York Times reports, again emphasizing the importance of seating Florida and Michigan delegates in a swing through the Sunshine State. Those delegates still wouldn't erase Barack Obama's lead, but some insiders believe she's trying to a make a symbolic point about the nomination process. More »
  
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  Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • superdelegates • Florida primary • Democratic National Convention • Michigan primary • barred delegates • convention delegates
- Hillary Will Win Huge Leverage in Narrow Defeat
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | May 21, 08 10:09 AM CDT
  
  It doesn’t look like Hillary Clinton will be the Dem nominee this year, but she “may gain more leverage from losing than almost any other failed presidential candidate,” says Michael Tackett in a Chicago Tribune piece about what’s in store for the second-place finisher. Assuming she is a “vigorous campaigner” for Obama in the fall and repairs rifts, she'll soon look more like Ted Kennedy than John Kerry. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • John Kerry • Ted Kennedy • female voters • Hubert Humphrey
- Obama Won't Declare Victory Tomorrow
  
  newser | Politico | May 19, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  Reversing earlier plans, Barack Obama will not declare the Democratic race over tomorrow night—in a move Carrie Budoff Brown, on Politico, sees as concern about “appearing presumptuous or antagonistic” toward Hillary Clinton. Hillary fans are sensitive about disrespect, so Obama will boast he’s won a majority of pledged delegates, a “tiptoe right up to the line” of claiming victory. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Iowa • Democratic nomination
- 'Poor Hillary' Refrain Has Hillary-Like Staying Power
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 16, 08 3:08 PM CDT
  
  There’s Hillary Clinton, writes Libby Copeland in the Washington Post , and then there’s “Poor Hillary.” Though Barack Obama destroyed her “inevitability,” she continues to quixotically pursue the Democratic nomination, touting the power of “grit” against arithmetic, and moving op-ed writers, news anchors and conservative talking heads to raise another chorus of “poor Hillary”—“an attempt," Copeland notes, "at death by condescension.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Democratic presidential primaries • Democratic nomination • Democratic presidential candidates • sexism • Hillary haters
- Edwards' Endorsement Is No Game-Changer
  
  newser | Newsweek | May 15, 08 9:45 AM CDT
  
  John Edwards’ endorsement of Barack Obama may “hammer another nail into Clinton’s subterranean coffin,” but it won’t do much to sway primary voters, Andrew Romano writes in Newsweek . Had Edwards taken a pro-Obama stand a few months ago, it might have helped the senator with blue-collar voters. But at this point, the endorsement was inevitable: “Edwards is a Democrat. Obama's the Democratic nominee. It had to happen eventually.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • election 2008 • John Edwards • Democratic nomination • endorsement • blue-collar vote • political endorsement • Democratic voters
- Obama Hamstrung by 'Nearly Nominee' Status
  
  newser | New York Times | May 14, 08 4:17 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama is feeling like a winner but unable to start campaigning like one, the New York Times reports. The almost-nominee can't go after John McCain the way he would if he had the nomination sewn up for fear of infuriating Hillary Clinton's supporters, aides say. He also is still unable to completely write off Clinton's challenge for the Democratic nomination. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Democratic nomination • campaigning
- A Closer Look at the Math Problem Edwards Averted
  
  newser | New York Observer | May 12, 08 4:41 PM CDT
  
  The long-tern effect of John Edwards’ early exit is that Barack Obama will wrap up the nomination by early June, a grateful Steve Kornacki writes in the New York Observer . A slower withdrawal would have spelled trouble for the Democrats, who are having enough trouble making up their minds. "Imagine the comparative mess Democrats might be in if Edwards had opted to stick around," says Kornacki, who dissects the numbers. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Democratic nomination • Democratic National Convention
- Team Hillary's 5 Big Mistakes
  
  newser | Time | May 8, 08 2:04 PM CDT
  
  With the Clinton campaign in death throes, Karen Tumulty runs down its five crucial mistakes in Time : Mood. In a season when Democrats were desperate for change, Hillary “completely misread the mood” and went with incumbency. Rules. Clinton's inner circle wasn't up on them. Mark Penn thought California's primary was winner-take-all—an early flub that forced them into a big-state strategy. More »
  
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  Hillary Clinton • Internet • campaign fundraising • Democratic nomination • Mark Penn • California primary • caucuses
- Hillary Defeat Would Shake Up Democrats
  
  newser | New York Times | May 8, 08 1:22 PM CDT
  
  With Barack Obama headed toward the Democratic nomination, the Clintons' long reign over the party looks likely to end, the New York Times reports. That could lead to a bold new era—or a divided party that Obama can’t reconcile. “It’s going to create an upheaval,” said one Democratic organizer. “The Clintons and their allies have been running the show for 16 years.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Democratic nomination • Democratic Party • Clintonites • Clintonism
- Obama Will Declare Victory on May 20
  
  newser | Politico | May 8, 08 11:29 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama plans to lay claim to his party’s nomination on May 20, the day that votes in Kentucky and Oregon will net him a majority of pledged delegates, a top aide tells Politico, setting up what David Paul Kuhn calls “a train wreck waiting to happen.” For at least 11 days—until the DNC meets on whether and how to seat Michigan and Florida’s outlaw delegates—the Clinton camp will dispute it. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • superdelegates • Oregon primary • pledged delegates • Kentucky primary
- Rush Calls Off 'Chaos,' Says GOP Can Beat Obama
  
  newser | CNN | May 7, 08 10:35 PM CDT
  
  Now that Barack Obama has all but knocked out Hillary Clinton, Rush Limbaugh is calling off "Operation Chaos" and relishing the notion that Obama will be the nominee, CNN notes. Limbaugh has for months urged Republicans to vote for Clinton to prolong the race. Today, he urged superdelegates to publicly back Obama, calling him the "weakest" of the Democratic candidates. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • superdelegates • John Kerry • Indiana primary • Rush Limbaugh
- Clinton Aides Start to Believe Own Spin
  
  newser | Politico | May 1, 08 11:39 AM CDT
  
  Optimism is spreading through Hillary Clinton’s once-dispirited war room, Politico reports, as a series of wins accumulate in their candidate’s column: fundraising has rushed in since Pennsylvania, she's collected some well-timed endorsements, she’s bobbed up in the polls, and Barack Obama is once again afflicted by Jeremiah Wright. All of which makes Clinton’s advisers believe that her comeback-kid rhetoric might actually have legs. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • election 2008 • election • campaign fundraising • Democratic nomination • superdelegates • Clinton 2008 • Pennsylvania primary
- The Long, Slow Breakup of Wright-Obama
  
  newser | New York Times | May 1, 08 10:20 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama has a very long fuse, the New York Times notes, and so his break-up with his pastor and surrogate father has been playing out in slow motion, since even before the day he launched his presidential campaign. It took Jeremiah Wright's direct assault on Obama's credibility in his speech Monday to make the candidate finally snap, Michael Powell observes in a look at why a man so focused and formidable has fumbled in handling the biggest crisis of his campaign. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Democratic nomination • race • Jeremiah Wright • David Axelrod
- Ex-DNC Chair Switches to Obama Camp
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 1, 08 6:51 AM CDT
  
  Joe Andrew, a superdelegate and the Democratic Party chair during Bill Clinton's presidency, has switched his allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama, reports the AP. Andrew had endorsed Hillary on the day she announced her candidacy, but in a lengthy letter to other superdelegates he says they must rally behind Obama to "heal the rift in our party." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • superdelegates • Democratic presidential candidates • Democratic National Committee
April 2008
- Pastor Strife Forces Obama to Get Tough
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 30, 08 6:09 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's angry break with his former pastor marks a dramatic change in tone for the Democratic hopeful—and the party's superdelegates are paying close attention, the New York Times reports. Obama's forceful handling of the furor has impressed many but the revival of thorny racial issues ahead of next week's primaries is causing some to fret. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Democratic nomination • race • Jeremiah Wright • Democrat
- 'Change' Falls Flat With Hoosiers
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 24, 08 2:13 PM CDT
  
  Despite the ubiquitous use of “change” as a rallying cry in the Democratic primaries, the New York Times notes, the candidates might want to reconsider using it ahead of Indiana's May 6 primary. Although they’re dissatisfied with the economic toll taken by the decline in manufacturing, voters generally expressed “queasiness” in response to both candidates' use of the mantra. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic presidential primaries • Democratic nomination • delegates • Indiana primary • Indiana • manufacturing • change
- Race Looms Large After Obama Loss
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 24, 08 8:25 AM CDT
  
  Until recently, Barack Obama seemed to have quashed concerns about the chances of an African-American winning the White House. But as he inches closer to the nomination, more Democrats are beginning to ask whether white and other non-black voters will elect a black man in November. The question has taken on new urgency since Obama's loss in Pennsylvania, writes the New York Times . More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Democratic nomination • race • Pennsylvania primary • Democratic Party • Democratic presidential candidates • African Americans • African-American voters • voting • white voters

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