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New Evidence Mark Penn To Blame For Major Clinton Mistake

CBS News | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics


Hillary Clinton's first major mistake of the campaign, her staff has long admitted, was whacking Barack Obama after his supporter David Geffen trashed...

Sam Stein

Clintonites Offer McCain Advice: Make A Dramatic Play And Pray

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics


Facing a difficult electoral map and dispiriting public opinion polls, John McCain finds himself in a situation similar to Hillary Clinton's in the cl...

Read and Report On Leaked Clinton Campaign Docs

Amanda Michel | Posted 09.12.2008 | Home


Amanda Michel

This was essentially the Mt. Vesuvius of campaign leaks. Readers and bloggers will find all kinds of stuff buried in these memos and emails and help advance the story of the campaign's great fall.

Sam Stein

The (Innocent) Obama Tapes Mark Penn Wanted Released

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics


On Monday evening, the Atlantic Magazine released its long awaited opus on the downfall of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. The piece, titl...

Dems Went Out Of Their Way To Put Clinton's Voice In DNC Platform

Marc Ambinder | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics


The Obama campaign appointed Michael Yaki, a lawyer and former member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, to be their national platform director. ...

Atlantic Gets Hold Of Internal Clinton Camp Memos

Washington Post | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics


Just when you thought everyone had moved on... former advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a tizzy over an upcoming piece in the Atlantic Mo...

McCain Is Running Same Campaign As Hillary

New York Magazine | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics


Feel free to tell me I'm nuts for asking the question, but doesn't it seem that, more and more, the McCain campaign is turning into the Clinton campai...

Mark Penn, Karen Hughes Team Up On Corporate Crisis Group

WSJ | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics


The Wall Street Journal reports (password req.): Two hard-charging political operatives are teaming up to create a bipartisan consulting organization...

Top Clinton Aide Staying In Her Corner

Marc Ambinder | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics


Here's an e-mail from Hillary Clinton's Internet guru, Peter Daou, to his friends, bloggers and online Clinton supporters. More evidence that Clinton ...

Clinton Campaign Debt Rises To $22.5 Million

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton needs Barack Obama's donors to help retire her sizable debt. Obama, who's forgoing public funds for the gene...

What Went Wrong Inside The Clinton Campaign

New York Times | Peter Baker and Jim Rutenberg | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics


By the time the campaign tracked down the small-city Indiana mayor, Bill Clinton was in a lather. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had lost the North Ca...

At Clinton's Final Rally, The Scene Is More Bitter Than Sweet

McClatchy Newspapers | Matt Stearns | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics


Bettyjean Kling is tough, she's mad and she's about ready to kick some pasty MSNBC butt. "Chris Matthews, I can't even look at him anymore," Kling sp...

Clinton Concession Speech: Read Transcript

Huffington Post | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics


Hillary Clinton delivered the following speech Saturday June 7 at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C.. Thank you so much. Thank you all...

Clinton Concession Speech Reaction

Huffington Post | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics


Hillary Clinton formally suspended her campaign and enthusiastically endorsed Barack Obama in Washington D.C. today. Below is reaction to her speech. ...

Hillary Clinton Concession Speech: Suspends Campaign, Endorses Obama

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency on Saturday and summoned supporters to use "our energy...

Sam Stein

Clinton's What If: Ickes' Abandoned Run At DNC Chair

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics


The post-mortems are just now trickling in on Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and already there is a list of "what-could-have-beens" lin...

Time And Tide Wait For No Woman

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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.

Clinton's Dilemma: Awash In Both Cash And Debt

McClatchy Newspapers | Greg Gordon | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics


The climactic end of the Democratic presidential race left loser Hillary Clinton in an odd position: Her campaign is both awash in cash and buried in ...

Hillary: It Ain't Over Yet!

Beverly Davis | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home


Beverly Davis

The Hillary speech not only ignored Obama's historic win but was so laden with self-preservation and -aggrandizement it's clear that, although she is at the end of her candidacy, she is not done with her self-deluded power plays.

Clinton Campaign Manager 'Blessed' Group Pushing For Unity Ticket

Marc Ambinder | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


The effort by two former Clinton aides to launch a draft unity ticket (VoteBoth) movement believes it was quietly blessed a few weeks ago by Clinton's...

Clinton Camp Converging On NY Tuesday, Shedding Staff

Politico.com | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics


Members of Hillary Clinton's advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and...

Bubba Trouble: The Comeback Id: Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair | Todd S. Purdum | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics


Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton's post-White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business asso...

Bill Clinton's Enemies List: The Media, MoveOn.org

Politico | KENNETH P. VOGEL | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics


With Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on the verge of defeat, Bill Clinton has been placing blame on enemies including a brazenly biased media ...

Chelsea's T-Shirt Project: Too Little, Too Lame

Chip Collis | Posted 06.07.2008 | Home


Chip Collis

The Clinton daughter breathless fundraising T-shirt contest is utterly lame and yet probably much more exciting than the actual nomination contest, at this point. We have some design proposals.

Why Do We Stick With Her?

Hilary Rosen | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics


Hilary Rosen

The personal answer for me is that I am loyal. But I want to focus on trying to translate for my friends, just what it is about this campaign that keeps the enthusiasm of her supporters.