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Superdelegate Race Turns in Obama's Favor

Ill. senator gains 25 during primary
sweep while Clinton loses 2

Feb 23, 08 6:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's primary spree is swaying more superdelegates to his side: He has won over 25 of the elite voters and Hillary Clinton has lost two in the past 2 weeks, the AP reports. One California superdelegate has switched from John Edwards to Clinton to undecided, saying superdelegates must pick... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic National Convention • Democratic caucus • Democratic presidential primaries • superdelegates

Hillary Didn't Plan for Long Haul

Spending calls might reflect poorly on Clinton's management skills

Feb 23, 08 5:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton invested heavily to try to lock up the Democratic presidential nomination on Super Tuesday—but that didn't happen, and her failure to plan for the long haul let Barack Obama rack up 10 straight wins since and left some doubting her management skills. Clinton's dwindling war chest also... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Super Tuesday • Democratic presidential candidates • Democratic presidential primaries • Election 2008 • flexibility

Hillary Coalition Collapses as Barack Lures Working Class

He wins white men
3-2 in Wisconsin

Feb 20, 08 5:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's 17-point victory in Wisconsin contains a major warning for Hillary Clinton: not only did the Illinois senator win among his usual coalition of well-educated, young and black voters, but he also captured the vote of the working class, particularly men. The "durable coalition" that Clinton strategist Mark... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Wisconsin • demographics • Democratic presidential primaries • exit polls • Wisconsin primary • Election 2008

Clinton, Obama Home In on Wisc.

Primary shapes up as test of momentum

Feb 18, 08 4:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Tomorrow's primary in Wisconsin won’t decide the Democratic nomination, but Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are fighting tooth and nail anyway, Politico reports, airing their first negative ads of the campaign and taking shots at each other through aides. At stake is momentum: Obama doesn’t want to break... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Wisconsin • Ted Kennedy • Hawaii • health care reform • Democratic nomination • Democratic presidential primaries • attack ad • Wisconsin primary • Election 2008

Obama Delegate Lead Dicey
for Clinton

Unlikely to catch up, she'll push for Fla., Mich. delegates

Feb 14, 08 9:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has taken a lead of more than 100 delegates in the race for the Democratic nomination, leaving Hillary Clinton with a deficit she's not likely to make up unless she wins Texas and Ohio with a landslide, the New York Times reports. With dwindling options, aides say she'll... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic presidential primaries • Michigan primary • delegates • Florida primary • superdelegates • Election 2008

OPINION

Hillary's Not a True Test of Gender Bias

Dowd: Maybe you want a woman president —but not this woman

Feb 13, 08 1:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's sweep of eight primaries in the past four days has put Hillary Clinton on the ropes, and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wonders if women will once again come to her aid as they did in New Hampshire. But the "national seminar on gender and race"... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • women • female politicians • Democratic presidential primaries • female voters • Election 2008

Super Delegate Situation a Tangled Thicket

796 insiders must walk line between public's wish, party allegiances

Feb 10, 08 6:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have long been courting superdelegates—the 796 Democratic insiders whose votes are becoming ever more critical to their party's nomination—but the situation is rife with potential pitfalls, explains the Washington Post. The idea that the votes of everyday Democrats may not end up... More »

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Barack Battle
Strategy Snares
Delegate Bonus

Strategy to capitalize on mid-sized states likely to pay off come March

Feb 10, 08 5:35 AM CST
(Newser) - With three monster victories yesterday, Barack Obama could be poised to extend his pledged, "locked-in" delegate lead over Hillary Clinton before March 4 brings contests in Ohio and Texas. The gain is a feather in the cap of the Illinois senator's strategists, who had been doubted for aiming so... More »

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Barack Obama • Louisiana • Nebraska • Washington • Democratic presidential primaries • delegates • superdelegates • Virgin Islands

UPDATED

Obama Dominates All 4 Races

Dem hopeful tops Clinton in Wash., Nebraska, Louisiana, Virgin Islands

Feb 9, 08 10:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama swept all four primaries and caucuses tonight and nabbed the winner's share of the 161 Democratic delegates up for grabs, the New York Times reports. He won roughly two-thirds of Washington and Nebraska votes to Hillary Clinton's one-third, and snagged racially divided Louisiana by more than 10 points,... More »

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Blue-Collar Voters Not
Sold on Obama

College grads prefer him by 20%; working class goes for Clinton

Feb 9, 08 4:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s camp has spotted Hillary Clinton’s edge among working class voters, the Chicago Tribune reports. A recent Obama campaign memo said he expects to lose in states where collars are more blue than white. And numbers support the Dem divide: Workers picked Hillary over Obama by 60%... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • working class • Democratic presidential candidates • Democratic presidential primaries • Election 2008

Team Obama Prepares for Stalemate

Leaked memo forecasts dead heat with Clinton for nom

Feb 7, 08 10:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign is preparing for a deadlocked contest with Hillary Clinton and forecasting a virtual tie in the race for Democratic delegates, according to an internal memo. Bloomberg reports Obama's advisers envision him winning 19 of 27 remaining primaries but giving Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to Clinton. That scenario... More »

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Clinton Scores Mass. Surprise

Kennedy, Kerry endorsements
can't help Obama overcome ad blitz

Feb 5, 08 7:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton topped Barack Obama in the Massachusetts primary today, overcoming his fervent endorsements by Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, MSNBC reports. Clinton did benefit from backing by state lawmakers like the senate president, Therese Murray, who implied Clinton lost the big endorsements because she is a woman, the AP... More »

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OPINION

Dems: Who Can Beat McCain?

As GOP rallies round McCain, Hillary must battle Obama and the Clinton negatives

Jan 31, 08 10:43 AM CST
(Newser) - With the presidential race narrowed by yesterday's big defections, David Broder sees a clear favorite in each party. Despite lingering opposition from "unelected conservative ideologues," McCain's got the nod, the payoff for dogged stumping in New Hampshire and huge endorsements heading into the big states. But on the... More »

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Carter Backs Obama, Almost

Ex-president won't endorse, but calls senator 'extraordinary and titillating'

Jan 30, 08 11:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter came tantalizingly close to endorsing Barack Obama in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, calling the Illinois senator's campaign "extraordinary and titillating for me and my family." While he's officially neutral, the former president and Nobel Prize winner heaped praise on Obama, predicting that he... More »

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Edwards' New Plan: Outlast 'Celebrity Candidates'

Hopeful lays out new strategy and boasts of January funding increase

Jan 28, 08 9:10 PM CST
(Newser) - John Edwards may be running third among Dem hopefuls, but he vowed to stay in the race today with a new long-term strategy, the Chicago Tribune reports. He plans to roll online donations into ad campaigns in Super Tuesday states and a dozen others—including "red" ones—until the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Super Tuesday • campaign contributions • Democratic presidential primaries • Election 2008

Will Edwards Be Obama's AG?

His camp denies the rumor; either way, 3rd-place finisher
stays in race

Jan 27, 08 5:15 PM CST
(Newser) - He doesn't have a single primary win yet, but as John Edwards continues his bid for the presidency, rumors are swirling that the trial lawyer is more likely to end up as attorney general in an Obama administration. "Illinois Democrats" have been quietly circulating the rumor, claims Robert Novak,... More »

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Edwards Can't Steal Spotlight

Can't match Obama, Clinton's celebrity

Jan 27, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The nation is enraptured with the prospect of a female or black president, and John Edwards' loss in his home state yesterday underscores his inability to nab the spotlight from his celebrity rivals. "He is the most gifted athlete on the field, but there's just not room," one... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • gender • John Edwards • race • South Carolina • Democratic presidential primaries

Dems Do Their Math on Feb. 5 Primary States

Candidates pay heed
to delegates, not just overall state wins

Jan 23, 08 4:39 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton is all but ceding Saturday's South Carolina primary to Barack Obama, just one variation of the political calculus Democratic presidential candidates are using ahead of Super Tuesday primaries February 5, the Washington Post reports. Clinton will spotlight states with personal history—Arkansas and New York—and two with... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • California • Super Tuesday • New York • caucus • Latinos • Democratic presidential primaries • independents • Election 2008

UPDATED

Dem Debaters Get Feisty

Policy talk devolves into bickering between Clinton, Obama

Jan 21, 08 8:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama drowned out policy talk in a South Carolina presidential debate tonight as they bickered over Ronald Reagan and what Obama called Clinton's "corporate" past, CNN reports. On economic policy, they wrangled over Senate votes as much as subprime bailout plans. “This kind of... More »

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Edwards' Biggest Role to Come

Jan 19, 08 4:57 PM CST
(Newser) - John Edwards may be a longshot to win the Democratic nomination, but he could wind up anointing the eventual candidate, and not just as a spoiler. Democratic delegates are divvied up proportionally in each state, Politico explains, so Edwards could wind up with a tidy clump of delegates if he... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Democratic National Convention • Democratic presidential primaries

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