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  • March 2008

    • Clinton Camp Blames Obama for Blocking Mich. Re-Vote

      Detroit News  |  Mar 19, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Clinton Camp Blames Obama for Blocking Mich. Re-Vote

      (Newser) - As a re-vote for Michigan Democrats looks less likely, Hillary Clinton put blame squarely at her rival’s feet, with one spokesman calling Barack Obama's approach “a passive-aggressive effort … to disenfranchise the voters.” Meanwhile, Obama's campaign for the first time expressed opposition to do-over legislation, the Detroit News reports, noting concern over private funding of a public election. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Michigan primary  • re-vote

    • Florida Dems Nix Primary Do-Over

      Miami Herald  |  Mar 17, 08 7:24 PM CDT

      Florida Dems Nix Primary Do-Over

      (Newser) - Florida Democrats reacted to weeks of political wrangling today by ditching plans for a mail-in revote, the Miami Herald reports. "Thousands of people responded," Florida Democratic Party chair Karen Thurman wrote. "The consensus is clear: Florida doesn’t want to vote again. So we won’t." But she said the Sunshine State still isn't calling it quits. More »

    • Mich. Inches Closer to June Re-Vote

      Detroit Free Press  |  Mar 14, 08 4:20 PM CDT

      Mich. Inches Closer to June Re-Vote

      (Newser) - Michigan’s Democratic primary will take place—again—on June 3 if Barack Obama and the state legislature agree on a re-vote and private funds can be raised, the Detroit Free Press reports. Negotiators struck a tentative deal this afternoon on a full-fledged primary repeat, which state lawmakers must approve by the end of next week. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Michigan primary  • Carl Levin  • Ed Rendell  • Jennifer Granholm  • Jon Corzine

    • Mich., Fla. Closer to Approving Re-Votes

      Chicago Tribune  |  Mar 9, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Mich., Fla. Closer to Approving Re-Votes

      (Newser) - Michigan and Florida senators appeared closer today to approving mail-in re-votes for their disqualified primaries, the Swamp blog reports. DNC chair Howard Dean said he also supported the mail-ins if state leaders can agree with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on how to run them. “I have to run these rules so that the losing side feels it’s been treated fairly,” he said on “This Week with George Stephanopolous.” More »

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      Florida  • Michigan  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • Howard Dean  • Democratic National Committee  • Carl Levin  • Bill Nelson  • re-vote

    • Bigwigs Wrangle Over Fla., Michigan

      New York Times  |  Mar 7, 08 8:16 AM CST

      Bigwigs Wrangle Over Fla., Michigan

      (Newser) - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's race to capture every pledged delegate has revived a contentious issue: what to do with the disqualified delegates from Michigan and Florida. Both campaigns, state leaders, and party elders all agree that something must be done. But the party is at an impasse over how to proceed, not least over who would foot an $18 million bill for a do-over, writes the New York Times . More »

    • Mich., Fla. May Yet Be Hillary Key

      Salon  |  Mar 5, 08 1:43 PM CST

      Mich., Fla. May Yet Be Hillary Key

      (Newser) - Despite big wins yesterday, Hillary Clinton still needs a secret weapon to make up her delegate deficit and, Walter Shapiro writes in Salon , her strategy might have been presaged in Ohio by Gov. Ted Strickland urging, “Let’s go to Michigan and Florida." Do-over votes in those states, whose primaries weren't recognized by the Democratic Party for violating scheduling rules, could be her next push. More »

  • February 2008

    • Obama Delegate Lead Dicey for Clinton

      New York Times  |  Feb 14, 08 9:10 AM CST

      Obama Delegate Lead Dicey for Clinton

      (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 push aggressively to seat disqualified delegates from Florida and Michigan, where she won the primaries unopposed, a move likely to be highly divisive. More »

    • Dems in Florida, Michigan Could Get a Re-Vote

      Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 9, 08 8:41 AM CST

      Dems in Florida, Michigan Could Get a Re-Vote

      (Newser) - Michigan and Florida Democrats—stripped of delegates to the national convention when the states moved their primaries ahead of Super Tuesday—could get another shot at helping select the candidate, the Wall Street Journal reports. With Hillary Clinton and Obama in a dead heat, pressure is mounting on the states to come up with a new delegate-selection process, such as a caucus or convention, that doesn't violate party rules. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary

  • January 2008

    • Clinton U-Turns on Michigan, Florida Ban

      Reuters  |  Jan 26, 08 4:46 PM CST

      Clinton U-Turns on Michigan, Florida Ban

      (Newser) - The Dems punished Michigan and Florida for slating their primaries early, but yesterday Hillary Clinton said she wants their delegates to count after all, Reuters reports. As the only Dem on last week's Michigan ballot and the front-runner in Tuesday's Florida's primary, she would reap nearly all 350 delegates at stake. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Democrats  • Florida  • Democratic National Convention  • Michigan  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary

    • National Effort Straining Huck

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 17, 08 12:45 PM CST

      National Effort Straining Huck

      (Newser) - Mike Huckabee's campaign is still in post-Iowa shock, trying to figure how it can run nationally with a miniature war chest and paltry organization. The GOP candidate has no offices in any of the 21 states that vote Feb. 5—save in hometown Little Rock—and his third-place finish in Michigan was managed by a 28-year-old recruited less than a week before the vote. More »

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      Mike Huckabee  • presidential campaign  • Iowa caucus  • Super Tuesday  • evangelicals  • Michigan primary

    • Mitt-mentum: How Far Will It Go?

      Time  |  Jan 16, 08 11:09 AM CST

      Mitt-mentum: How Far Will It Go?

      (Newser) - Mitt Romney finally got his gold medal last night in Michigan, but the win has analysts wondering whether his home-state comeback can carry the country. Michigan was, after all, the land of his father, a three-term governor in the Big Three's glory days; there was a nostalgic haze around the campaign the last few days, Salon notes. His message was so focused on the state, "you almost got the idea that the winner would go on to be president of Michigan," writes Mike Madden. More »

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      election 2008  • Mitt Romney  • Detroit  • Michigan  • Michigan primary

    • Romney Wins Michigan Primary

      MSNBC  |  Jan 15, 08 8:06 PM CST

      Romney Wins Michigan Primary

      (Newser) - Native son Mitt Romney won the Michigan primary tonight, salvaging his campaign and scrambling the Republican race anew, MSNBC reports. With 99% of returns in, Romney had 39% of the vote, John McCain 30%, and Mike Huckabee 16%. Ron Paul finished a distant fourth, but he had nearly as many votes as Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani combined. More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • Republicans  • Rudy Giuliani  • Mike Huckabee  • Fred Thompson  • Michigan  • Michigan primary

    • Mitt Outplayed Mac in Michigan

      National Review  |  Jan 15, 08 5:39 PM CST

      Mitt Outplayed Mac in Michigan

      (Newser) - With Great Lakes State voting booths not quite closed—and polls tied—pundits are already writing post-mortems on the two-Republican race, and giving Mitt Romney the campaigning edge. The New Republic ’s Jonathan Cohn and Henry Payne in the National Review agree that Mitt hit his stride, convincing Michiganders he’s the man to inject optimistic business sense into the flailing auto industry. More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • auto industry  • environmentalism  • Michigan primary  • job

    • Romney Sr. Cronies Ditch, Rebuke Mitt

      New York Times  |  Jan 15, 08 8:16 AM CST

      Romney Sr. Cronies Ditch, Rebuke Mitt

      (Newser) - Mitt Romney might have expected to ride the legacy of his late father, the former Michigan governor, to a victory in today's primaries. But old friends of George Romney aren't thrilled with the politics of his son, the New York Times reports. "I think George Romney would despair of what Mitt has done in order to become the candidate of the conservative extreme right of the GOP party," said Walter DeVries. More »

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      Mitt Romney  • Michigan primary  • George Romney

    • McCain Holds Narrow Edge in Mich.

      Reuters  |  Jan 14, 08 7:57 AM CST

      McCain Holds Narrow Edge in Mich.

      (Newser) - John McCain holds a slim lead over Mitt Romney going into tomorrow’s primary in Michigan, according to the latest Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll. The Arizona senator leads Romney 27% to 24%, within the poll’s margin of error. “It’s very close, and it’s been very close every day that we’ve polled,” says pollster John Zogby. Mike Huckabee holds third with 15%; everyone else is in single digits. More »

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      John McCain  • election 2008  • Mitt Romney  • Mike Huckabee  • Republican presidential primaries  • Michigan primary  • independents

    • McCain Now National GOP Favorite: Poll

      New York Times  |  Jan 14, 08 6:56 AM CST

      McCain Now National GOP Favorite: Poll

      (Newser) - A new nationwide poll shows seismic shifts in the standings of presidential hopefuls in the last month, with John McCain, earlier counted out with just 7% support, now leading the GOP race at 33%. The New York Times /CBS poll has Mike Huckabee trailing with 18%, and Rudy Giuliani with 10%. Mitt Romney's support among Republicans slid from 16% to 8%. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • John McCain  • poll  • Michigan primary  • South Carolina primary  • electability

    • Romney Gets Personal in Michigan

      Politico  |  Jan 13, 08 10:04 PM CST

      Romney Gets Personal in Michigan

      (Newser) - You can go home again, Mitt Romney is finding in Michigan, where the GOP presidential candidate has adopted a softer approach as he vies for a badly needed primary victory in the state where he was born and raised and his father was governor. Voters are responding to the more personal approach, and polls show him gaining ground against John McCain. He's telling Michigan residents he shares their pain, and, for a change, he seems sincere, Politico says. More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • US economy  • auto industry  • Michigan  • Michigan primary

    • Romney Leads McCain in Michigan: Poll

      Politico  |  Jan 13, 08 6:30 AM CST

      Romney Leads McCain in Michigan: Poll

      (Newser) - Mitt Romney has grabbed an 8-point lead over closest rival John McCain heading into the Michigan primary, according to the latest MSNBC/McClatchy poll of the state's voters. Romney needs the good news: he has reduced advertising in South Carolina and staked his continuing candidacy on Michigan. The poll puts Romney at 30%, McCain at 22%, and Mike Huckabee at 17%. The field winds up with Fred Thompson at 7%, Rudy Giuliani at 6% and Ron Paul at 5%. More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • Rudy Giuliani  • Mike Huckabee  • Fred Thompson  • Michigan  • South Carolina  • Ron Paul  • Michigan primary  • Republican evangelicals

    • Needing Win, Romney Attacks McCain in Mich.

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jan 12, 08 6:45 PM CST

      Needing Win, Romney Attacks McCain in Mich.

      (Newser) - After huge cash infusions won him second place in Iowa and New Hampshire, Mitt Romney is seizing on hopes for economic—and campaign—rejuvenation in his home state of Michigan, the Chicago Tribune reports. In a GM plant where 200 workers were just laid off, Romney attacked policies today that have let jobs disappear "again and again and again"—part of his strategy in a state where 7.4% are out of work. More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • US economy  • Michigan  • unemployment  • Michigan primary

    • Blogfather to Mich. Dems: Vote Romney

      Daily Kos Blog  |  Jan 11, 08 3:05 PM CST

      Blogfather to Mich. Dems: Vote Romney

      (Newser) - Left-wing netroots tastemaker Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is endorsing Mitt Romney in next week’s Michigan primary. You read that right. In Michigan's open primary system, any registered voter can cast a Republican ballot, and the blogger calls for strategic sabotage. With the Democratic race uncontested, the Michigan left can back a GOP candidate, he writes, “adding fuel to their civil war.” More »

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      Mitt Romney  • Michigan primary  • Jesse Jackson  • Markos Moulitsas  • sabotage  • George Wallace

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