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Clinton 2008

Though she lead in the popular vote (so she claims), the champagne wishes and Presidential dreams are over for Hillary.

Love her or hate her (and many people fall into one or the other of these camps), Hillary Clinton ran neck and neck with Obama for the Democratic nomination. Her husband, who helped her top the fundraising charts for the first quarter (but not by nearly as big a margin as expected), was both one of her biggest assets and her biggest liabilities. She's won kudos in the Senate for hard work and bipartisan effectiveness, but in the end the numbers just weren't on her side.

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June 2008
- Clinton: 'We Stand Shoulder to Shoulder'
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 27, 08 1:12 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama finally took a stage in support of the same candidate today—with Clinton asserting that it was time for the “36 million Americans who supported us” to stand in solidarity behind Obama, the Washington Post reports. "We are not going to rest until we take back our country," declared Clinton, adding, in a dig to the GOP reign, "think of the progress we have not made!” More »
- Pre-Unity, Some Clinton Donors Just Not Into Obama
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jun 27, 08 10:56 AM CDT
  
  On the eve of today’s Democratic Unity rally, top Clinton donors intimated that they weren't quite ready to break out their party hats (or pocketbooks) for Obama. Said one of the 200 top Hillary backers corralled by the senators last night in DC, “This felt like when your mom forces you to go visit your Aunt Ida and she has to pinch your cheeks and…you can't wait to leave.” More »
- Barack Writes Campaign Check to Hillary
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 27, 08 3:15 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama made a personal $4,600 donation to Hillary Clinton's campaign—a gesture to win over her supporters as the Democratic party tries to unify following the divisive campaign for the nomination. Obama told a meeting of 200 top Clinton fundraisers he's encouraging his donors to help pay off Clinton's $20 million campaign debt. "I'm going to need Hillary by my side campaigning during his election, and I'm going to need you," Obama said. More »
- Delicately, Team Clinton Gets Behind Obama
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 26, 08 8:24 AM CDT
  
  Under the eye of one of Washington's most powerful lawyers, Barack Obama is negotiating with Hillary Clinton over a tangle of issues, from how to retire her campaign debt to what role she will play in this summer's convention. The Democratic party is slowly recovering from its bruising primary fight with the aid of Robert Barnett, who brokered book deals for Obama and both Clintons, the New York Times reports. More »
- Contrast in Defense Chiefs: Blunt Vet vs. Rhodes Scholar
  
  newser | NPR | Jun 25, 08 6:13 PM CDT
  
  How would a McCain Pentagon differ from Obama's? NPR sits own with two potential defense chiefs and finds common ground in their praise of Robert Gates' reforms but big differences in their approach to Iraq and in their own styles. Richard Armitage is an earthy McCain adviser and Vietnam vet who appreciates the value of "an infantryman with a bayonet." Obama adviser Richard Danzig is a Rhodes Scholar who wants soldiers to learn foreign languages. More »
- As Clinton Returns, Obama Asks His Donors to Help Her
  
  newser | Reuters | Jun 24, 08 10:49 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton received a hero's welcome today with two standing ovations when she returned to Capitol Hill, Reuters reports. "There was a tear or two and a lot of high-fives," said Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. Clinton may be getting more than moral support, however. Barack Obama asked his top donors in a conference call to help Clinton retire her $10 million campaign debt, ABC News reports. Also today, Bill Clinton publicly backed Obama and said he'd help him get elected. More »
- NH Town in a Tizzy as Obama, Clinton Seek Unity
  
  newser | Concord (NH) Monitor | Jun 24, 08 3:04 PM CDT
  
  A no-traffic-light, one-store New Hampshire town is scrambling to prepare for Friday's joint appearance by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the first since she bowed out of the presidential race and endorsed him, reports the Concord Monitor. They're the biggest names to hit town since Arlo Guthrie in 1979, but maybe civic leaders shouldn't be too surprised—the town's name is Unity. More »
- Elian Spotlight Shows Obama Weak Spot
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 24, 08 11:58 AM CDT
  
  Eight years after the Elian Gonzalez standoff contributed to Al Gore’s defeat, the row is back in the headlines and causing trouble for Barack Obama. Obama’s stance on Cuban issues, not to mention the prominent roles Elian’s father’s lawyer and a Clinton deputy AG play in his campaign, have angered many members of Florida’s Cuban exile community, Politico reports. More »
- Can Obama Talk Smart to Dumbed-Down America?
  
  newser | New York | Jun 24, 08 10:33 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama’s trip to the DNC podium is expected to be the "rhetorical blockbuster of the summer," writes Sam Anderson in New York . But is the senator up to using his oratorical sophistication to expand his popularity among Americans hooked on a junk-food diet of low-brow stump speeches? Can a "Clinton-style natural who flaunts the artifice of his speeches and refuses to strategically hide his intelligence" score with an audience ambivalent about exactly those qualities?" More »
- Women Scarce on the Trail
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 23, 08 5:26 PM CDT
  
  John McCain's press corps boasted but a single woman today among its two dozen men: Elizabeth Holmes, who blogs about it in the Wall Street Journal . More women were in evidence when Hillary Clinton was stumping, because she employed several herself, Holmes writes, but now few females are left to either report on hopefuls or advise them. This year's contest "seems to be the old-style male-dominated game." More »
- 'Star' Hillary Keeps Vow With Bronx Grad Speech
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Jun 23, 08 6:46 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton was given a rock star's reception yesterday at her first public appearance in New York since surrendering the Democratic field to to Barack Obama. She presented the graduation address at Pelham Preparatory Academy in the Bronx, fulfilling a promise she made years ago to attend the commencement of a supporter's daughter. More »
- Ragtag Levees Leave Midwest Soaking
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 22, 08 10:18 AM CDT
  
  As the Midwest battles massive flooding, the New York Times looks at the region's patchwork of homemade levees—which fail to meet federal standards and tend to spring unexpected leaks. Bill Clinton's White House advised a uniform levy system 15 years ago, but the report was read and forgotten. “We told them there were going to be more floods like this,” an engineering professor said. More »
- Obama Campaign Fixes Gender Balance
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 21, 08 3:22 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's campaign has been getting more women on board at high levels, Politico reports. Female activists welcome the new hires, while campaign insiders say the "boy's club" image that dogged Obama's campaign during the primaries was never correct. Among the biggest names are Patti Solis Doyle, former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, and Stephanie Cutter, who worked with John Kerry. More »
- Where Are the Feminists for Michelle?
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 21, 08 1:12 PM CDT
  
  Like strong women before her, Michelle Obama has been “demonized” in the press—so why aren’t feminists coming to her aid? asks Mary C. Curtis in the Washington Post . Feminists spoke out when Hillary Clinton faced sexism in her campaign—but the cause hasn’t embraced women of color. “In America, there's seldom a cost for disrespecting black women,” Curtis notes, adding that the anti-Michelle campaign "has not caused a rift between black and white women so much as it has exposed it." More »
- McCain, Obama Raise $21M Each
  
  newser | MSNBC | Jun 21, 08 12:11 PM CDT
  
  John McCain nearly matched Barack Obama’s fundraising intake last month, granting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee “a level of parity that would have been unimaginable just a few months ago,” MSNBC says. McCain scored $21.5 million while Obama, whose fundraising slumped to its lowest levels of the year, pulled in $21.9 million. More »
- Obama Grabs 15-Point Lead Over McCain: Poll
  
  newser | Newsweek | Jun 20, 08 8:21 PM CDT
  
  Breaking out of a tight race, Barack Obama registered a 51% to 36% lead over John McCain in the newest Newsweek nationwide poll, released today. Obama's bounce, expected after Hillary Clinton conceded him the Democratic nomination, comes courtesy of younger voters, who prefer him by 66% to 27%. Among registered voters age 40 and up, the two hopefuls are in a statistical dead heat. More »
- McCain Misfires by Targeting Prosecutions
  
  newser | New Republic | Jun 20, 08 6:35 PM CDT
  
  Terrorism may be the one issue on which John McCain out-polls his presidential rival, Jonathan Chait writes in the New Republic , yet he has faltered by slamming Obama's call to prosecute terrorists. None other than 9/11 hawk Rudy Giuliani wanted prosecutions too—and other options, like guns and bombs, don't always work. Would anyone want an anti-terror air strike in downtown New York? More »
- 'Swift Boating' Fears for Obama May Be Premature
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 20, 08 1:35 PM CDT
  
  Democrats fretting over a reprise of the swift boating that marked the 2004 campaign may be hearing false alarms, Politico reports. Third-party organizations, aka 527 groups, have thus far been unable to drum up enough opposition to Barack Obama to fund an offensive. It's early yet, but antagonists like T. Boone Pickens and Freedom's Watch are on the sidelines. More »
- Clinton to Campaign With Obama Next Week
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 20, 08 9:05 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will campaign together for the first time next Friday, Obama's camp revealed today, in a step toward unifying a fractured Democratic Party after a bruising primary fight. A day earlier, Obama and Clinton also plan to meet in Washington with some of her top contributors to calm donors who remain frustrated with Obama's campaign. By announcing the events in advance, Team Obama sought to turn attention away from his public financing switch, the AP speculates. More »
- Obama Up in Swing States, Making Red Inroads
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Jun 18, 08 7:06 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama holds a 2-point edge over John McCain in recently red Virginia, a poll margin Eric Kleefeld, on Talking Points Memo, sees allowing Obama to make “the map of competitive states really ... much broader than usual this year.” Blogger Nate at FiveThirtyEight.com reads in the numbers that Obama's lead is “an unusually robust one in terms of the Electoral College.” More »

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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pauses during a press conference to announce that Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., left, will support her in her run for the presidency on Monday,... (Associated Press)

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, talks with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY prior to the start of the Democratic presidential primary debate of the 2008 election hosted by the South Carolina State University... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., answers questions from supporters at the Allen Temple A.M.E. Church and Community Development Center in Greenville, S.C., Friday, April... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton address the California Democratic Convention in San Diego, Saturday, April 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton address the California Democratic Convention in San Diego, Saturday, April 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton address the California Democratic Convention in San Diego, Saturday, April 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy) (Associated Press)

Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., delivers her remarks at the National Jewish Democratic Council conference Wednesday, April 25, 2007, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press)

Former President Bill Clinton is speaking on behalf Sen. Hillary R. Clinton, in Tyler, Texas, on a swing though several East Texas cities, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman) (AP Photo)

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