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Clinton-Obama Tussle

"Are there three people in this debate, not two?" -John Edwards

The feud between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is getting intense...so intense that it could cost the Democrats a White House victory. Clinton has called Obama a "frustrated" former "slumlord," while Obama has criticized Clinton's "different kind of politics" and "looseness with the facts." Whose side are you on?

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May 2008
- Maybe She's Looking to Bargain
  
  New York Times | May 9, 08 4:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s tactics have been especially divisive in the last few days, and Katharine Q. Seelye writes in the Times that maybe she’s “veering into dangerous territory” to force her rival to bargain. Some suggestions on what she wants from him: More »
- Superdelegate Count Now Favors Obama
  
  ABC News | May 9, 08 4:31 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama today moved ahead of Hillary Clinton among superdelegates for the first time. Obama picked up nine more by midday—one a defector from Clinton's camp, the Los Angeles Times reports. Both ABC and the New York Times put him ahead—the latter's count is 266-263—meaning he now leads in pledged delegates, states won, popular votes, money raised, and superdelegates. More »
- Clinton Asks Superdelegates for Private Commitment
  
  Politico | May 9, 08 2:46 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hillary Clinton wasn’t asking anyone to stand up and be counted as she met with superdelegates on Capitol Hill yesterday. Instead of trying to lock in public endorsements—with political risks for the supers involved—Clinton was just trying to get a private headcount, Politico reports. "We have to know where our numbers are,” said one Clinton staffer, “and there’s no other way.” More »
- With Time, McCain Readies for the Fall
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 9, 08 7:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain has had the Republican nomination locked up for three months, and while the Democrats were busily duking it out, the Arizona senator was laying the groundwork for this fall's campaign—hiring new staff and stuffing the piggybank of a once-broke candidacy. As the Wall Street Journal writes, he has also tried to define his ideological stance: a reliable conservative, but at a distance from George W. Bush. More »
- Clinton Camp Rejects New Michigan Plan
  
  Talking Points Memo | May 8, 08 8:51 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hillary Clinton today rejected the latest plan for seating Michigan’s rogue delegates, Talking Points Memo reports. A campaign rep wrote of the scheme settled on by state Dems that would award Clinton 69 delegates to Obama’s 59: “This proposal does not honor the 600,000 votes that were cast. Those votes must be counted.” January's extra-legal vote netted her 73 conventioneers to 55 for “uncommitted.” More »
- Why Obama Will Do Fine With Jews
  
  New Republic | May 8, 08 8:36 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Much has been made of Barack Obama’s “Jewish problem,” but while it’s hurt him in the primaries—he’s done 10 points worse among Jewish voters—it will have little or no meaning in November, SV Date writes in the New Republic . The demographic is most politically meaningful in Florida, and 80% of Jews there dependably vote Democratic. More »
- Clinton Still Defiant on Trail
  
  Associated Press | May 8, 08 7:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hillary Clinton urged her supporters to stick by her today, telling a West Virginia audience that calls for her to step down are simply "deja vu all over again," the AP reports. Clinton also told USA Today that only she can deliver the broad base of voters, including whites, necessary to beat John McCain. Her campaign chief, meanwhile, suggested Clinton would not keep the fight going until the convention in August, notes the New York Times . More »
- Obamas Play It Too Safe With Personal Finances
  
  Slate | May 8, 08 6:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack and Michelle Obama invest their own money “very, very safely”—perhaps too conservatively, say Sam Grobart and Tara Siegel Bernard in Slate. The Democratic frontrunner and his wife only began rolling in the money recently and their portfolio—“for the most part, a collection of run-of-the-mill mutual funds"—shows a couple “who wants no risk of ever being middle-class again.” More »
- Obama: It Ain't Over Til First Lady Sings
  
  CNN | May 8, 08 5:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Just about every political bigwig is calling the race for Barack Obama—but not the Democrat himself. "We've still got some work to do," he told CNN today, making sure to heap praise on Hillary Clinton. Asked whether she could be his running mate, he said it would be "presumptuous" to answer but noted, "Obviously, she'd be on anybody's short list." More »
- Team Hillary's 5 Big Mistakes
  
  Time | 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 California's primary was winner-take-all—an early flub that forced them into a big-state strategy. More »
- Hillary Defeat Would Shake Up Democrats
  
  New York Times | May 8, 08 1:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With Barack Obama headed toward the Democratic nomination, the Clintons' long reign over the party looks likely to end, the New York Times reports. That could lead to a bold new era—or a divided party that Obama can’t reconcile. “It’s going to create an upheaval,” said one Democratic organizer. “The Clintons and their allies have been running the show for 16 years.” More »
- Did Rush's Dittoheads Tilt Indiana for Hillary?
  
  Washington Post | May 8, 08 1:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Despite what has been hailed as a strong showing by Barack Obama in Indiana, his campaign claims he would’ve done better but for the sabotage of Rush Limbaugh, the Washington Post reports. Under his “Operation Chaos,” the conservative radio host urged Indiana Republicans to vote for Clinton in order to prolong the Dems' dogfight and "bloody up Obama politically." More »