Obama Nomination

Obama To Clinch Democratic Nomination

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- It's official: President Barack Obama will clinch the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday, ending a low-key primary race that ma...

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Obama Nears Campaign Milestone

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON — It's official: President Barack Obama will clinch the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday, ending a low-key primary race th...

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Romney Delivers Prebuttal To Obama

AP | Posted 04.19.2012

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama is over his head and swimming in the wrong direction when it comes to the economy. In...

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Senate GOP's Move Awaited In Big Fight With Obama

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 03.23.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's appointments to two key agencies during the Senate's year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return ...

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Democratic War Room Unleashed For Kagan Nomination

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the hours following the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, the predominant feature of the debate has been the swift, campaign-like ope...

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Dawn Johnsen's Nomination In Peril With Brown Senate Win

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In addition to hurting the prospects for health care reform, there may be another casualty of the Democratic party's loss of Ted Kennedy's old Senate ...

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Obama 'Frustrated' By 'Slow' Confirmation For Nominees, Expected To Re-Nominate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama is increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of confirmation for his judicial and executive appointees, according to White House Pres...

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Chuck Blahous, Pro-Privatization Bush Aide, Nominated To Social Security Board

Wall Street Journal | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 05.25.2011

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For much of 2005, a battered Democratic Party sought to regain its footing by doing battle with President George W. Bush over his attempt to carve pri...

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Question on Sotomayor: What Does Obama's SCOTUS Nomination Have to Do with Immigration Reform?

Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011

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Those who think Sotomayor's nomination means no on comprehensive immigration reform should consider these four points.

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The Crusade to Defeat Obama Intelligence Pick Hurts All Jews

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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The effort to force Obama to withdraw the nomination of Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council is all about Israel.

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Plouffe: "We Might Not Have Been The Nominee" If Florida Primary Had Counted

New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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This might not fall in the category of things that make Hillary Rodham Clinton feel better about how the Democratic presidential contest turned out. B...

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Obama's Nomination Speech In Denver and Dayton

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Suddenly my companion is sobbing, "I'm three generations from slavery," she says. I'm holding her. "I didn't know it would affect me this way," she says, and I'm thinking that all of my maternal American ancestors owned slaves.

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The New Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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The nomination of Barack Obama will test whether the new Democratic coalition has grown strong enough to fend off Republican assaults to produce the f...

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Obama Steps Into History

AP | DAVID ESPO and ROBERT FURLOW | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed po...

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Obama Convention Offer Could Violate Minnesota Gambling Law

Minnesota Monitor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Minnesota's top gambling official is wondering if a drawing announced on Barack Obama's website constitutes an illegal raffle -- but neither he, nor t...

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Time And Tide Wait For No Woman

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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We can credit Hillary with many gifts, among them, however, is not a mastery of timing: The "experience" candidate's campaign is a textbook example of right things done at wrong times.

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Bush Congratulates Obama On Winning The Nomination

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, the highest-ranking black member of the Bush administration, congratulated Barack Obama Wednesd...

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Obama: Calm In The Swirl Of History

New York Times | MICHAEL POWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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He gives the appearance of a strikingly laid-back victor, this presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. On the day before the night he made histo...

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Obama Reaches For The Brass Ring

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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The next five months will be no cakewalk for Barack Obama. The first African American presidential nominee must deal with substantial weakness of sup...

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Obama Wins Democratic Nomination: Round-Up Of Reactions

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A round-up of the reaction to Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary: Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic: Yes We Did... As we...

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Half-Vote Florida Solution: A Mixed Semi-Ending

Ron Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The DNC's decision to give Florida delegates half votes got mixed reviews. The decision left many local party activists less than happy and supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton combative.

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No Clear Map For Clinton's Political Future

Washington Post | Shailagh Murray, Paul Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

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In August 1980, with no hope left of winning the nomination, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy conceded defeat to incumbent Jimmy Carter in the Democratic presid...

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Obama Beats Hillary In Superdelegates For First Time, ABC Reports

ABC | Karen Travers | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton's support among superdelegates, a...

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Obama Says He's on His Way to Nomination

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN ANTONIO — Barack Obama says even if rival Hillary Rodham Clinton has had a good night, he's on his way to winning the Democratic presidentia...

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