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  • June 2008

    • Rivals Plan Joint Unity Event

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jun 18, 08 2:59 AM CDT

      Rivals Plan Joint Unity Event

      (Newser) - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will make a joint appearance in Washington next week in a show of party solidarity—despite behind-the-scenes tensions. Though Clinton's finance director invited top supporters to the event, some Hillary backers are frustrated by signals that their candidate won't be invited to join the ticket, including the Obama team's hiring of Patti Solis Doyle, a former Clinton campaign manager fired in February, to be chief of staff to the VP nominee. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Democratic nomination  • party unity  • public appearance

    • Obama, McCain Camps Trade Fire on Foreign Policy

      Associated Press  |  Jun 17, 08 7:10 PM CDT

      Obama, McCain Camps Trade Fire on Foreign Policy

      (AP) - A defiant Barack Obama said today he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the US safer, a sharp rebuke to John McCain's aides who said the Democrat had a naive, "September 10th mindset" toward terrorism. Obama said Osama bin Laden is still at large in part because President Bush's strategy toward fighting terror has not succeeded. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Election 2008  • War on Terror  • US foreign policy

    • Why Isn't Obama Further Ahead?

      ABC News  |  Jun 17, 08 5:33 PM CDT

      Why Isn't Obama Further Ahead?

      (Newser) - Barack Obama has less of a lead over John McCain than would be suggested by his advantages in party affiliation and by President Bush's disapproval numbers, writes Gary Langer of ABC News. Among other things, data from a new poll show Obama has not received a major boost from Hillary Clinton's endorsement, suggesting he still needs to work to recruit her supporters. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain

    • Candidates Spar Over Origins of 9/11 Attacks

      Time  |  Jun 17, 08 4:20 PM CDT

      Candidates Spar Over Origins of 9/11 Attacks

      (Newser) - A top aide to John McCain aide today called Barack Obama “naïve,” “delusional,” and the “perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset,” ABC News reports. The sniping came in response to Obama’s comment that the US acted correctly in trying the terrorists behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in the federal court system, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Iraq  • John Kerry  • World Trade Center  • Richard Clarke

    • Obama-Hagel Ticket? Tempting, but Forget It

      Salon  |  Jun 17, 08 2:49 PM CDT

      Obama-Hagel Ticket? Tempting, but Forget It

      (Newser) - Republican maverick Chuck Hagel is being bruted as a possible running mate for Barack Obama, and it's a tempting fantasy. He's a Vietnam vet with abundant foreign policy experience and a very public split with Bush on the Iraq war; having him on the ticket would also give serious cred to Obama's post-partisan message. But he “may be a more attractive candidate in theory than in reality,” Mike Madden writes on Salon. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Bush administration  • Republicans  • Democrats  • vice presidential candidate  • vice president  • Chuck Hagel

    • Obama Hire Bodes Ill for Clinton as VP

      Huffington Post  |  Jun 17, 08 2:48 PM CDT

      Obama Hire Bodes Ill for Clinton as VP

      (Newser) - Don’t be fooled into thinking Barack Obama's hiring of Hillary Clinton’s ex-campaign manager is a play for unity; insiders say it’s a signal Clinton is not the future VP nominee. One Clinton bundler called the move the “biggest f--- you I have ever seen in politics.” Patti Solis Doyle will be the VP nominee's chief of staff, and she and Clinton didn't part on good terms. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • vice president  • Patti Solis Doyle

    • Obama Opens 11-Point Ohio Lead

      Talking Points Memo  |  Jun 17, 08 12:44 PM CDT

      Obama Opens 11-Point Ohio Lead

      (Newser) - Barack Obama now holds an 11-point margin over his rival in the state that decided the 2004 election. As recently as March, John McCain led in Ohio 49% to 41%; three months later, a significant shift finds Obama winning 50% to 39%. Talking Points Memo notes that polling organization PPP was “almost exactly right” in its pre-vote survey of the Democratic primary. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Iraq war  • Ohio

    • To Court Blue-Collar Vote, Light Up

      New York Times  |  Jun 17, 08 10:00 AM CDT

      To Court Blue-Collar Vote, Light Up

      (Newser) - Everyone has ideas about how Barack Obama can attract the working-class white voters that eluded him in the primaries. Author Tony Horwitz goes for the throat: Start smoking again. West Virginia and Kentucky, where Hillary Clinton clobbered Obama, lead the nation in cigarette consumption among whites, and lighting up could help worse-off voters see him as one of their own. More »

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      Barack Obama  • smoking  • tobacco  • white voters  • working class  • cigarette  • working-class vote

    • Gore: 'We Need Change'

      Detroit Free Press  |  Jun 17, 08 5:48 AM CDT

      Gore: 'We Need Change'

      (Newser) - Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama for president at a Detroit rally last night, saying the 2008 election “matters more than ever before,” the Detroit Free Press reports. “After 8 years of lost jobs, we need change,” the former Democratic nominee said. “After 8 years of the worst, most serious foreign policy mistakes, we need change.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Detroit  • endorsement  • Al Gore  • Jennifer Granholm  • campaign rally

    • Blogger on Trail Scoops MSM

      New Yorker  |  Jun 16, 08 7:20 PM CDT

      Blogger on Trail Scoops MSM

      (Newser) - Two of the biggest recent campaign scoops—Barack Obama's "bitter" bomb and Bill Clinton's "scumbag" tirade—originated not with the mainstream media but with a 61-year-old Oakland resident who blogs for the Huffington Post. The New Yorker visits with Mayhill Fowler, who ruminates about her exclusives and expresses a few regrets. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • journalism  • online journalism  • Huffington Post  • Citizen journalism

    • Ex-Clinton Manager Joins Team Obama

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 16, 08 5:37 PM CDT

      Ex-Clinton Manager Joins Team Obama

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager and longtime loyalist Patti Solis Doyle will serve as chief of staff to Obama's eventual VP choice. This may mean that Clinton is unlikely to nab the veep spot, since Doyle—booted from Hillary's campaign—has not spoken to her since, Don Frederick blogs in the Los Angeles Times . More »

    • Gore Endorses Obama

      ABC News  |  Jun 16, 08 4:43 PM CDT

      Gore Endorses Obama

      (Newser) - Al Gore will endorse Barack Obama for president tonight at a rally in Detroit, ABC News reports. "From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States," Gore said of Obama in an email to supporters. Obama has talked openly of inviting Gore to serve in an administration. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Al Gore  • political endorsement  • Cabinet

    • Anti-Obama Evangelical Writes Pro-Obama Book

      Politico  |  Jun 16, 08 4:35 PM CDT

      Anti-Obama Evangelical Writes Pro-Obama Book

      (Newser) - Stephen Mansfield expects to cast his ballot against Barack Obama in November. But that hasn’t stopped him from writing an admiring book about the candidate's religious profile— The Faith of Barack Obama —which argues that the candidate may well steal young evangelical voters away from John McCain. McCain is “clumsy when it comes to religion,” Mansfield tells Politico, in stark contrast to Obama’s “fluency” in the language of Christianity. More »