Combative campaign ad strikes nerve with Bush, Hillary says
New York Daily News Aug 15, 07 2:33 PM CDT
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A Bush spokeswoman has slammed a Hillary Clinton campaign ad in which the Senator says that many Americans, including combat troops, are invisible to the president. But the New York Daily News reports that advisers to Clinton are delighted by the shrill reaction, as they increasingly seek to paint their candidate as a thorn in Bush's side.
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America's Mayor is
oddly absent on the campaign trail
New Yorker Aug 14, 07 2:45 PM CDT
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Rudy Giuliani holds a nice lead in the pack of GOP presidential candidates, but it's not a result of anything he's doing on the campaign trail, Peter Boyer reports in a profile in the New Yorker . The Rudy who's winning in the polls is America's Mayor, the guy who cleaned up New York and carried the ball after 9/11, the feisty father-figure for whom, as George Will described it, "pugnacity is a political philosophy."
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Former Wisconsin governor drops out
after 6th-place showing
CNN Aug 13, 07 12:50 AM CDT
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Longshot presidential candidate Tommy Thompson announced yesterday he's dropping out of the race after finishing sixth in Iowa's Republican straw poll. The former Wisconsin governor set a goal for himself of coming in first or second, but he couldn't even beat Libertarian loose cannon Ron Paul. "There's no sense in looking back," he said.
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Showing could catapult GOP longshot into
top echelon
Politico Aug 12, 07 9:18 AM CDT
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Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was a surprise winner in Iowa's straw poll yesterday when he came in a strong second, which may have catapulted him into the top tier. He pulled 18.1% of the vote to Mitt Romney’s 31.5%. Huckabee's performance is particularly impressive given that he spent almost no money on the race, report's Politico's Roger Simon.
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Dem rose with dizzying speed on a cascade
of lucky breaks
Washington Post Aug 12, 07 7:58 AM CDT
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Barack Obama’s rapid ascent to top-tier presidential candidate was the stuff of lucky break after lucky break, as quiet charisma and other people’s sex scandals catapulted him to the top, the Washington Post reports. It was a chance opening that first took him to Chicago and chance again that opened up a US Senate seat from Illinois. “It’s like he’s cut in line,” a Hill staffer observed.
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Clinton chided Obama for untabling nukes— like she did last year
Associated Press Aug 10, 07 2:45 PM CDT
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A year before Hillary Clinton blasted Barack Obama’s prohibition on nukes against Pakistan, she made one on using them in Iran. The AP reports the frontrunner’s head-shaking rebuke last week—no “president should make any blanket statements” about nuke use—doesn't jibe with her own position last year. “I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table,” Clinton said in April 2006.
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At Forum debate, Hillary's pink; Obama's on the brink; Edwards, Richardson stink
Time Aug 10, 07 11:37 AM CDT
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All of the Democrats who appeared at last night’s gay rights forum touted their support of sponsor Human Rights Campaign—but it was Hillary Clinton who aced the tightrope test, according to Time ’s Mark Halperin. Hillary managed to oppose gay marriage without playing defense, all the while supplying “major doses of Clintonesque eye contact.”
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Backchannel back-stabbing on rise ahead of Iowa poll
Slate Aug 9, 07 3:42 PM CDT
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With second-tier candidates sensing that Saturday's straw poll may be their last, best chance to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Iowa is abuzz with whispering campaigns, Slate 's John Dickerson says. The homegrown negative ads are a major tool for cash-poor politicians with names like Tancredo, Brownback and Huckabee.
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Tensions tell on the campaign trail
New York Times Aug 7, 07 5:12 AM CDT
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White House hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are no longer on speaking terms after months of increasingly glacial rivalry on the campaign trail, the Times reports. With another half a year until the first primary, the public tension—the pair carefully avoid contact whenever possible—may bode ill for a future partnership.
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Associated Press Aug 5, 07 9:28 PM CDT
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Jon Stewart’s roll call of presidential hopefuls is filling the coffers at Comedy Central as big-name advertisers sign on for “Indecision 2008,” billed as “Something Approximating Election News With Something Approximating Honesty.” High-profile advertisers are flocking to “The Daily Show” and its offshoot, “The Colbert Report,” the AP reports.
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Ex-mayor's erratic third wife says she's just a political newbie, not a distraction
New York Times Aug 5, 07 10:36 AM CDT
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Politicos say Rudy Giuliani can't win without his wife—but he may not be able to win with her either. Rumors have dogged Judy during her cautious public roll-out: She throws her weight around on the trail, her Louis Vuitton handbag gets its own seat on the campaign jet, and she has a “hit list” of aides she wants fired. But the garrulous Judy fires back, saying she lacks only political acumen—not substance.
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Associated Press Aug 4, 07 5:32 PM CDT
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Political campaigning took another step into the blogosphere today as Democratic presidential hopefuls vied for the support of the netroots community at the Yearly Kos convention in Chicago. Seven of the eight candidates answered sometimes-testy questions from what the AP called "powerful and polarizing liberal bloggers."
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