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June 2008
- GOP Lawmakers Holding Out on McCain
  
  newser | The Hill | Jun 12, 08 2:12 PM CDT
  
  At least 14 GOP lawmakers are refusing to publicly support John McCain’s White House bid, and more than a dozen more are keeping mum about whether they back the senator, the Hill reports. A few say they are supporting their party’s candidate without going so far as endorsing him. Many refused to say why they were holding out, though some offered as reasons differences on Iraq and energy policy. More »
  
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  Iraq • John McCain • GOP • energy • Pennsylvania primary • Indiana primary • political endorsement • West Virginia primary • nominee
May 2008
- 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
April 2008
- Bill Resumes Central Role in Hillary's Campaign
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Apr 26, 08 2:12 PM CDT
  
  Despite controversial remarks on more than one occasion, Bill Clinton has moved to the forefront of his wife’s campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports. In what some insiders call the “Billification” of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, the ex-President is pushing for sharper attacks on Barack Obama amid an aggressive stumping schedule. “We’re not quitters,” he reportedly tells his wife. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • election 2008 • Bill Clinton • Pennsylvania primary • campaign trail • North Carolina primary • campaign staff • campaign tactics
- Between Barack and a Hard Place
  
  newser | National Journal | Apr 25, 08 7:42 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton can’t win the Democratic nomination, Charlie Cook concedes in the National Journal , but if she keeps winning primaries, she’s stuck in “political purgatory:" She can’t quit, either. The primary system is such that for all Clinton's big-state victories and the media flak buffeting Barack Obama, she can’t possibly turn the ship around—but she can't go home either. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Pennsylvania primary • momentum
- Age, not Race, Beat Barack in Pennsylvania
  
  newser | Newsweek | Apr 24, 08 4:39 PM CDT
  
  The best explanation for Hillary Clinton's big win in Pennsylvania was not race but age, Jonathan Alter argues in Newsweek . A remarkable 40% of the voters in Tuesday’s primary were over 60, and Barack Obama’s 41-59% defeat in the demographic was the killer. Pennsylvania is second only to Florida in average age, and Obama's showing among seniors there was actually markedly improved from his 28-69% thumping in that demo in Ohio. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Pennsylvania primary • the senior vote
- Clinton's Victory Demeans Uplifting Politics
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 24, 08 3:33 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton prevailed in Pennsylvania by dragging Barack Obama's bipartisan, hopeful vision through the muck, proving politics is “frequently mean and irrational,” Gail Collins writes in the New York Times . Clinton showed that the playing field is dirty, and that even the junior senator from Illinois would go negative if he was pushed. She also proved that nobody can match her for pure toughness. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Pennsylvania primary • negative campaigning • Bosnia • Bittergate
- Dems Look Small After Pa. Gutter Fight
  
  newser | Time | Apr 24, 08 1:34 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama, once the fresh-faced symbol of a new kind of politics, emerged from the Pennsylvania primary “stale, battered, and embittered,” Joe Klein writes in a stunningly dour piece on the state of the Democratic race in Time . Dragged into a morass of character attacks, some of it “scurrilous trash,” Obama withered. “There is an immutable pedestrian reality to American politics,” Klein writes. “You have to get the social body language right.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Obama 2008 • Clinton 2008 • Pennsylvania primary
- Obama Aide: Dems Don't Win White Working Class Anyway
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Apr 24, 08 9:43 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama’s top strategist yesterday downplayed the demographic that sank his candidate in Pennsylvania on NPR, noting that the “white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years.” Added David Axelrod: "This is not new that Democratic candidates don't rely solely on those votes." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Pennsylvania primary • North Carolina • blue-collar vote • David Axelrod
- 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
- Is Barack on the Rocks?
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Apr 23, 08 2:19 PM CDT
  
  How bad is the Pennsylvania result for Team Obama and what does it mean going forward? Three writers think it through: “He can’t finish her off,” says Dan Kennedy in the Guardian . Obama scooped up presumptive-nominee status too soon, and now Americans have “buyer’s remorse”—realizing Clinton is the scrappier fighter. But it’s probably too late to tap the former first lady. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Pennsylvania primary • Indiana primary • blue-collar vote • George McGovern
- Pa. Primary Changed the Spin, not the Race
  
  newser | Newsweek | Apr 23, 08 1:13 PM CDT
  
  The Pennsylvania primary didn't change the basic parameters of the race for the Democratic nomination in any significant way, Andrew Romano writes in Newsweek. But it had a huge effect on the narrative, handing Hillary Clinton Exhibit A for her claim that Barack Obama can't win over white men. She will taunt him, as she did last night, for failing to knock her out, despite outspending her 3 to 1. Obama will boast, as he did last night, of cutting her Pennsylvania lead, and will hammer her for divisive tactics that are hurting the party. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Obama 2008 • Clinton 2008 • Pennsylvania primary • Pennsylvania • political spin
- Hillary Win Leaves Dems Unmoved, Barack Weaker
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Apr 23, 08 7:38 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton's 10-point win in Pennsylvania leaves the Democratic Party in the same quandary it was in before the primary, writes Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle, but with the pressure ratcheted up. While the race did not much improve Clinton's chances, it did expose Barack Obama's possible weaknesses as a general election candidate. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • election 2008 • Democratic presidential primaries • Democratic nomination • Pennsylvania primary • Democratic Party
- Steadfast Coalition Delivers 55-45% Clinton Win
  
  newser | Politico | Apr 23, 08 4:00 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton conquered Pennsylvania with the same coalition that drove her to victory in Ohio: white women, blue-collar workers and older voters. And once again, voters who decided in the last days of the primary skewed heavily toward the New York senator, reports Politico. The only surprise in her 55-45% win came among the young—while Barack Obama still won that demographic, the candidates split white voters age 29 and under. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic presidential primaries • Pennsylvania primary
- Obama Looks to Next Primaries
  
  newser | CNN | Apr 22, 08 10:31 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama looked to the next primaries in his speech tonight, applauding his supporters for making inroads against Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary despite his loss, CNN reports. Obama pushed his theme of changing politics-as-usual, saying, "It's easy to get consumed by the tit-for-tat," when the country is beset by "two wars, an economy in recession, a planet in peril." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • election 2008 • Pennsylvania primary • Indiana primary • North Carolina primary
- Clinton Celebrates Pa. Win
  
  newser | MSNBC | Apr 22, 08 9:51 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton savored her win in the Pennsylvania primary tonight, pitching herself in her victory speech as the toughest Democratic contender for the job. She dismissed calls for her to drop out of the race, adding, "The American people don't quit and they deserve a president who doesn't quit, either." She pledged to stand up for ordinary citizens, for people who "never waver in the face of adversity, who stand for what they believe and never stop believing in America." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Pennsylvania primary • Democratic Party • Pennsylvania • Democratic campaign
- Hillary Notches Critical Win in Pennsylvania
  
  newser | NBC News | Apr 22, 08 8:02 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton gave her campaign a jolt of life tonight with a decisive win in the Pennsylvania primary, NBC News reports. With 99% of results in, Clinton led 55% to 45%, a margin of victory that gives her campaign enough credibility to remain in the race. "The tide is turning," she told supporters in a victory speech. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Pennsylvania primary • Pennsylvania • Democratic campaign
- Blue-Collar White Voters Back Clinton
  
  newser | CNN | Apr 22, 08 7:43 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton fared especially well among white, blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania, exit polls show. She won two-thirds of their votes, her best showing among that group to date, the AP reports. She also won among women overall and late deciders. Barack Obama, meanwhile, won among young voters and affluent voters. He took more than 90% of the black vote and most of the male vote overall. More »
  
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  Pennsylvania primary • exit polls
- Pennsylvania: When a Win Is Not a Win
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Apr 22, 08 1:00 PM CDT
  
  Polls agree that Hillary Clinton should win the popular vote today in Pennsylvania, but watchers say that victory won't be clear-cut. Adam Nagourney in the New York Times and Peter Wallsten in the Los Angeles Times predict that while an outright Clinton loss would end her candidacy and a 10-point spread would boost her enormously, a single-digit win will be tough to interpret. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • superdelegates • Pennsylvania primary • blue-collar vote • poll numbers
- Demos to Watch in Pa. Vote
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Apr 22, 08 11:29 AM CDT
  
  Some of the election season’s most intriguing demographics will be out in force in today’s Pennsylvania primary. The Wall Street Journal breaks down who they are and how they might vote in November. Working-class white males mostly went red in 2006, supporting Republicans by a 14-point margin. Increased economic worries could swing some, but will they cross gender or racial lines? More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • election 2008 • Pennsylvania primary • young voters • demographics • the Hispanic vote • working-class vote • general election
- Pennsylvania: The Obama Referendum
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 22, 08 5:41 AM CDT
  
  As Pennsylvanians go to the polls on what could be the decisive day of the Democratic primary, one columnist sees today's vote not as a race between two candidates, but a referendum on one. Barack Obama has appeared as both populist and elitist, crusader and policy wonk, black and post-racial. Which Obama voters choose to see today will define his fate, writes EJ Dionne in the Washington Post . More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Pennsylvania primary • Democratic presidential candidates

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