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Castro Casts Lot With Clinton-Obama
Castro Casts
Lot With Clinton-Obama
Aug 28, 2007 3:27 PM CDT

Castro Casts Lot With Clinton-Obama

Ailing dictator reminisces on presidents past

(Newser) - One week after both Democratic hopefuls called for democracy in Cuba, Fidel Castro has called a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama ticket “apparently unbeatable.” A Granma editorial attributed to the ailing revolutionary—who is rumored to be dead—says the US opposition he’s faced over the years is fodder...

Obama Has GOP Crossover Appeal
Obama Has
GOP Crossover Appeal
Aug 24, 2007 6:28 PM CDT

Obama Has GOP Crossover Appeal

Dem came in third in recent poll of Iowa Republicans

(Newser) - Here's one race where Barack isn't trailing Hillary: the one for GOP defectors. In a recent poll, Iowa Republicans chose the freshman senator as their third-favored presidential candidate (after Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani), Salon reports. And in recent GOP focus groups, Obama’s crossover appeal was more than twice...

Giuliani Tops McCain With Vets
Giuliani Tops McCain With Vets
Aug 24, 2007 1:29 PM CDT

Giuliani Tops McCain With Vets

Vets favor Rudy over McCain; Obama

(Newser) - In a new poll, military veterans like Rudy Giuliani best of the top-tier presidential hopefuls. Rudy beats ex-POW John McCain's favorable rating 64% to 52%, the Post reports. Surprisingly, the third place candidate is Barack Obama, at 44%, edging out Edwards (43%) and Thompson (40%). Clinton (37%) and Romney (33%)...

Financial Woes Crucial Issue in '08 Election

AARP voters concerned about their wallets, new poll shows

(Newser) - A new poll of AARP members shows that financial security will be a big factor in how 90% will vote in early 2008 presidential primaries, the Politico reports. Though many of the 5,000 potential voters aren't familiar with candidates' positions on financial and health issues, one pollster says, more...

Congress' Only Iraq War Vet Backs Obama

Ex-paratrooper's endorsement seen as blow to Clinton

(Newser) - The only Iraq War combat vet in Congress endorsed Barack Obama yesterday, saying, "I'm inspired by his call to action to change how business is done in Washington." Pennsylvania's Patrick Murphy, who served as a paratrooper in Baghdad in 2003 and 2004, has worked with Hillary Clinton...

Obama Would Ease Cuba Travel Limits
Obama Would Ease Cuba Travel Limits
Aug 21, 2007 11:02 AM CDT

Obama Would Ease Cuba Travel Limits

Candidate backs looser rules on money transfers, family visits

(Newser) - Barack Obama says that as president, he would reverse the Bush administration's increased restrictions on travel to Cuba, the AP reports. Visiting or sending money to relatives on the Communist-controlled island became more difficult in 2004, a policy change the candidate calls "strategically blundering" in an op-ed published in...

Obama Girl's Crush Is Unrequited
Obama Girl's Crush Is Unrequited
Aug 21, 2007 5:19 AM CDT

Obama Girl's Crush Is Unrequited

Barack says sexy dancer's antics are confusing his daughter

(Newser) - Barack Obama has no love for sexy fan "Obama Girl." The hot YouTube video featuring the aspiring model crushing on the candidate is confusing his 6-year-old daughter and he says he finds it hard to take. She said, "Daddy, already has a wife," he told the...

Dems Pal Around in Iowa
Dems Pal Around in Iowa
Aug 19, 2007 4:45 PM CDT

Dems Pal Around in Iowa

Frontrunners dominate Iowa event

(Newser) - In a more-amiable-than-usual war of words, the Democrats debated this morning in Iowa, the locale of the pivotal first primary. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards dominated the 90-minute discussion moderated by ex-Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopolous, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza reports, playing it safe as the lower-tier...

Obama Brushes off Fall Debates
Obama Brushes off Fall Debates
Aug 18, 2007 9:20 PM CDT

Obama Brushes off Fall Debates

(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign declared forum fatigue today, announcing that the presidential hopeful will decline requests to speak at debates and forums for the rest of this fall, beyond those they've already committed to. “Unfortunately, we simply cannot run the kind of campaign we want and need to," campaign...

Obama Needs to Try On a Blue Collar
Obama Needs
to Try On a
Blue Collar
Aug 13, 2007 12:35 PM CDT

Obama Needs to Try On a Blue Collar

Dem struggles to overcome ‘arugula’ rep

(Newser) - Barack Obama is having trouble appealing to the more downscale wing of the Democratic Party, a problem on display in a recent Iowa farm appearance in which the Chicagoan complained about the price of arugula at Whole Foods. More a “wine track” than a “beer track” candidate, Obama...

Obama: the Accidental Candidate
Obama: the Accidental Candidate
Aug 12, 2007 7:58 AM CDT

Obama: the Accidental Candidate

Dem rose with dizzying speed on a cascade of lucky breaks

(Newser) - 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...

Hillary to Barack: 'Don't Even Do as I Say'

Clinton chided Obama for untabling nukes— like she did last year

(Newser) - 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...

Dems Court Rainbow Vote
Dems Court
Rainbow Vote
Aug 10, 2007 11:37 AM CDT

Dems Court Rainbow Vote

At Forum debate, Hillary's pink; Obama's on the brink; Edwards, Richardson stink

(Newser) - 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...

Obama Does Housework
Obama Does Housework
Aug 9, 2007 8:52 AM CDT

Obama Does Housework

Candidate works with a home health care worker for a day

(Newser) - Barack Obama mopped, dusted, and made breakfast for an elderly amputee yesterday as a precondition for gaining endorsement from the powerful Service Employees Union. Accompanied by a throng of photographers, Obama helped a caregiver perform her daily duties, and did his best to please. "Is this the way he...

Does Armani Make a Football Helmet?

Pats QB tops Esquire 's list of the best-dressed men of 2007—no, really

(Newser) - On a best-dressed list, one might expect a few actors—but world leaders, a presidential hopeful, and couple of journalists, all trailing a guy who often works in sweatpants? Esquire, you've officially blown our minds. The top 10:
  1. Tom Brady
  2. Jay-Z
  3. Daniel Craig
  4. Barack Obama
  5. André Balazs

Elbows Keep Getting Sharper
Elbows Keep Getting Sharper
Aug 8, 2007 5:40 AM CDT

Elbows Keep Getting Sharper

In Chicago, the testy senators spar on Iraq and Pakistan

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama delivered their sharpest attacks yet at each other's foreign policy visions at a debate last night in Obama's hometown. Newsday writes that the two senators went after each other with unprecedented ferocity: Clinton suggested that Obama was naive and unschooled in diplomacy, while Obama cited...

Hillary &amp; Barack 'Barely Speak'
Hillary & Barack 'Barely Speak'
Aug 7, 2007 5:12 AM CDT

Hillary & Barack 'Barely Speak'

Tensions tell on the campaign trail

(Newser) - 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...

She's Giuliani's Kid, but She's in Obama's Camp

On Facebook, Caroline Giuliani declares her independence from dad

(Newser) - He may be America's mayor, but to Caroline Giuliani he's just dad—and she's not having anything to do with the idea of him as president. In her Facebook profile, the soon-to-be Harvard freshman lists herself as politically liberal, and says she's is backing Barack Obama. At least she was...

GOP Candidates Play Nice in Iowa Debate

Repubs target Dems with tough talk on war, abortion, Obama

(Newser) - The Republican presidential candidates were mostly civil to each other in today's debate in Iowa, but they hammered Democrats on foreign policy and taxes. The tensest exchange occurred early, the Washington Post reports, when Sam Brownback accused Mitt Romney’s wife of working for Planned Parenthood. Romney called the charge...

Candidates Face Liberal Bloggers
Candidates Face Liberal Bloggers
Aug 4, 2007 5:32 PM CDT

Candidates Face Liberal Bloggers

(Newser) - 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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