Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: caucuses

caucuses stories: 3 news summaries
ANALYSIS


 How Obama Did It:
 The Delegate
 Strategy 

Delegate-by-delegate fight led to historic upset

Jun 4, 08 8:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last night was not a triumphant coronation for Barack Obama, whose campaign limped over the finish line in Montana and South Dakota. But the Illinois senator's victory over Hillary Clinton—one of the biggest upsets in US political history, writes the Washington Post—was never about glamorous wins in battleground... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • primary • Democratic presidential candidates • delegate count • pledged delegates • caucuses

ANALYSIS

No, She Isn’t Winning the Popular Vote

Claim divisive at best, untrue at worst,
so let's just call it a tie

May 22, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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),... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • Michigan primary • Florida primary • caucuses • popular vote

OPINION

 Team Hillary's
 5 Big
 Mistakes 

How mood, rules, caucuses, money, and pacing laid her campaign low

May 8, 08 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Hillary Clinton • Internet • campaign fundraising • Democratic nomination • California primary • Mark Penn • caucuses

3 Stories


from our news partners