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The Hillary Endgame

"It'll be over early June" -HRC campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe

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June 2008
- All Eyes on Clinton, Who's Hanging Tough
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 2, 08 10:07 AM CDT
  
  As campaign watchers strain to suss out Hillary Clinton’s endgame, the candidate’s not helping much—winking that she’ll stay in even as she lets some employees go. Asked about her plans after tomorrow’s last-in-the-country primaries, she said yesterday, “I’m sort of a day-at-a-time person,” “my political obituary has yet to be written” and “it is not over 'til it’s over.” More »
- Obama to Offer Clinton a 'Graceful Exit'
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jun 1, 08 5:38 PM CDT
  
  As Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the Democratic nomination wane, Barack Obama's camp is readying a consolation prize for the loser-apparent, the Daily Telegraph reports. In a "negotiated surrender," Clinton will likely be offered a cabinet post or the chance to lead a Senate charge on health care, an issue near and dear to her heart for more than a decade. More »
- Clinton Wins Puerto Rico Easily
  
  newser | MSNBC | Jun 1, 08 2:23 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton was projected to win the Puerto Rico primary by a wide margin today as polls closed, but turnout was estimated to be lower than the 700,000 that Bill Clinton said would support her emphasis on the popular vote. Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea Clinton had spent a combined 15 days campaigning in the primary once seen as a footnote, MSNBC reports. More »
- A Call for a Clinton Speech on Sexism
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 1, 08 7:56 AM CDT
  
  The time is ripe for Hillary Clinton to speak out on gender discrimination openly and honestly, writes Anna Holmes in the New York Times . After she ends her bid for the White House, such a move wouldn’t be called a political stunt, and would afford her the opportunity “to speak with courage and conviction,” as Barack Obama did in his much-admired speech about race. More »
May 2008
- Bush v. Gore 's Lessons for 2008
  
  newser | New Yorker | May 26, 08 3:30 PM CDT
  
  Memorial Day dates from the Civil War, but this week, thanks to HBO’s Recount, a different internecine conflict will be in the air: the 2000 election. The generally factual portrayal of the Florida snafu gets Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker thinking about another hairsplitting debate over vote counting. Perhaps inevitably, he zeros in on Hillary Clinton and her claims that she's winning the popular vote over Barack Obama. More »
- Fox News Guest Jokes About Killing Obama
  
  newser | Editor & Publisher | May 26, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  A Fox News analyst yesterday laughingly suggested on the air that Barack Obama be "knocked off." Commenting on Hillary Clinton's recent remarks about RFK's assassination, Liz Trotta referred to "what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama—well, both, if we could." She apologized today for her "lame attempt at humor." More »
- Spreadsheets Can't Handle Democrats' Haul
  
  newser | Politico | May 26, 08 11:16 AM CDT
  
  The Democratic presidential candidates have raised so much money that the FEC can’t handle the data, Politico reports. Barack Obama’s January report was so big that industry standard spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel 2003 couldn’t handle it. By March, Hillary Clinton had also broken the Excel barrier—a mere 65,536 rows and 256 columns. More »
- Senate Homecoming Won't Be Glorious
  
  newser | New York Times | May 26, 08 8:42 AM CDT
  
  If Hillary Clinton does indeed lose the Democratic nomination, her Senate homecoming won’t be a glorious one, the New York Times reports. Clinton is still a junior senator, ranking 36th out of 49 Democrats, and would need to leapfrog a lot of people to become a committee chair—much less majority leader, which is considered fanciful in staid Senate circles. More »
- Come On, Her RFK Gaffe's Not So Bad
  
  newser | Politico | May 25, 08 7:53 PM CDT
  
  Why have reporters turned Hillary Clinton's RFK flub into a huge story? To generate online hits with more political gossip, John Harris writes in Politico. Sure, it's hot news to hear about, but if you watch the remark on video, it's "deflating," Harris writes—it's just a calm, analytical statement made deep into a 20-minute conversation. More »
- Obama Says Clinton Meant No Offense in RFK Comment
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | May 24, 08 9:48 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama said today that he believes Hillary Clinton meant no harm when she made her much-maligned comment about Robert Kennedy's assassination, the Chicago Tribune reports. "Sen. Clinton says that she did not intend any offense by it, and I will take her at her word on that," he told a Puerto Rico radio station. Clinton has apologized for noting that RFK was shot in June, a remark that set off a firestorm given the concerns over Obama's security. More »
- Hillary's Killer RFK Quote Stuns Pundits
  
  newser | New York Daily News | May 24, 08 3:10 PM CDT
  
  Hillary’s RFK gaffe certainly has people talking—and most aren’t being too kind. Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News calls it “an X-ray of a very dark soul” that considers murder just another strategic possibility. Hillary has shot her chance at being vice president, he writes: “She doesn’t deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now.” More »
- On RFK, Clinton Should Have Known Better
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 24, 08 10:25 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton used history to make a point, but her RFK gaffe provides a valuable lesson for those studying it: “There are taboos in presidential politics, and this is one of the biggest,” Libby Copeland writes in the Washington Post . Clinton has apologized for referring to the assassination in her rationale for staying in the race, but her comments “broke a double taboo,” because many fear Obama’s race makes him a bigger target. More »
- Clinton's RFK Remark Sparks Fear, Outrage
  
  newser | New York Times | May 23, 08 7:54 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton whipped up a storm of anger today by invoking Bobby Kennedy's murder as grounds for staying in the Democratic race, the New York Times reports. Recalling the surprise outcomes of past contests, including her husband’s in 1992, the senator told editors at a South Dakota newspaper that “we all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California" in 1968. More »
- Biden Backs Obama on Talking to Foes
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 23, 08 12:40 PM CDT
  
  Joe Biden takes on Senate colleague Joe Lieberman in the Wall Street Journal today. Lieberman charged earlier this week that Democrats have lost the thread on FDR-style internationalism; Biden counters that it’s Bush who's lost it, with careless saber-rattling and a poorly targeted war on terror, both of which John McCain would perpetuate. Sending the right global signals requires “more than a great solider," he writes. "It will require a wise leader." More »
- Clinton's Sexism Charges 'Insulting'
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 23, 08 10:50 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton’s claims of misogyny this week were cheap shots that history’s greatest women never would have uttered, Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal . Suggesting that sexism is costing her the nomination is “insulting” and “manipulative”—it paints other candidates’ supporters as biased—it’s false, and ultimately, Noonan notes, it is “undermining of the position of women.” More »
- Bill Likes Idea of Hillary as VP
  
  newser | New York Times | May 23, 08 8:30 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton has vowed to keep fighting for the nomination, but family friends say Bill Clinton is warming to the idea of an Obama-Clinton ticket, the New York Times reports. He sees it as Hillary's best chance to eventually become president and thinks her big-state victories have earned her serious consideration. Meanwhile, members of her camp have begun "very preliminary" talks with Obama representatives about the possibility, CNN reports. More »
- Dems Jockey on Florida and Michigan Votes
  
  newser | St. Petersburg Times | May 22, 08 5:10 PM CDT
  
  With primary voting in its final stretch, the long-simmering argument about outlaw Florida and Michigan balloting is heating up. Hillary Clinton's camp is still arguing that all delegates should be seated, while Barack Obama said seating half the Florida delegates would be “a very reasonable solution”—though he discounted the vote's legitimacy, calling it “essentially a referendum on name recognition.” More »
- Linchpin in 'NAFTA-Gate' to Step Down
  
  newser | Globe and Mail | May 22, 08 2:47 PM CDT
  
  Ian Brodie, chief of staff to Canada's prime minister and the key figure in the "NAFTA-gate" scandal, will step down by summer, the Globe and Mail reports. Brodie, the architect of the Conservative Party's victory in 2006 elections, is under investigation in leaks that clouded the Democratic primary in Ohio in March. More »
- No, She Isn’t Winning the Popular Vote
  
  newser | Newsweek | May 22, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  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), but she’s also in the wrong, Alter asserts, then runs through the math. More »
- Clinton Ready to Take It to Convention
  
  newser | New York Times | May 22, 08 8:39 AM CDT
  
  A defiant Hillary Clinton signaled yesterday that she might take the nomination fight all the way to the convention, the New York Times reports, again emphasizing the importance of seating Florida and Michigan delegates in a swing through the Sunshine State. Those delegates still wouldn't erase Barack Obama's lead, but some insiders believe she's trying to a make a symbolic point about the nomination process. More »

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Guerra-Mondragon had become "concerned about the tone of the race," an Obama aide said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

One of Hillary Clinton's top fundraisers is leaving her campaign to join Barack Obama's fundraising team. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., right, addresses to her supporters as her daughter Chelsea and her husband former President Bill Clinton watch during her Indiana Primary... (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a fundraiser in Washington, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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