Democratic Primaries

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Spare Change for Hillary?

Keith Berner | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

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Every minute spent trying to fill Hillary Clinton's tin cup is a minute not spent raising that same money for Obama or myriad other candidates. She has sucked bank-fulls of cash out of the DNC donor rolls.

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Obama supports pay HRC's debt? Surely you jest!

Horace McMillon | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home

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When you run out of money you either fly coach (see John McCain), or drop out (see Joe Biden). You don't rack up a big debt expecting someone to bail you out after the fact.

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Winning to Change or Changing to Win: Obama and the Progressive Dilemma

Marshall Grossman | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Those of us who want real change must hold with one hand to the absolute necessity of an Obama victory and with the other to the possibility that pragmatic cynicism may be precisely not the road to achieve victory.

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How the Democratic Party Blew the Communications Part of Its Florida/Michigan Decisions

RJ Eskow | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

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The Party's failure to frame this issue effectively opened the door for some campaign demagoguery, which led in turn to the bitter demonstrations this weekend.

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Hillary's 2012 End Game

Diane Francis | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Primaries, Bill Clinton, John McCain, 2012 Election, Hillary, Democratic Primaries, Obama, Dick Morris Hillary Clinton, Election, Politics News

This week will be great fun to watch because the delegate arithmetic simply doesn't work after Tuesday. Then, the real Hillary will be revealed in one of two scenarios.

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Puerto Rico Primary: Clinton Wins

AP | DAVID ESPO and JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Primary, Democratic Primaries, Puerto Rico Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Politics News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, the fi...

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Clinton expects superdelegates to decide next week

AP | MATT GOURAS | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Superdelegates, Democratic Primaries, Politics News

HELENA, Mont. — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she expects uncommitted superdelegates to begin making the choice that will decide her marath...

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More People Have Voted Against Hillary Clinton Than Have Voted Against Any Primary Candidate In History

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Abrams, Democratic Primaries, Schismogenesis, Hillary Clinton, Wesley Clark, Count Every Vote, Barack Obama, Politics News

Take Michigan: Even though it was an "election" worthy of Joseph Stalin or Saddam Hussein, with no major opponent on the ballot, 41% of voters chose nobody instead of Clinton.

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Obama Versus R. Kelly: No Competition

Christine Escobar | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

In Obama's hometown the big news this week was not his historic delegate lead. It was the R. Kelly underage porn trial, which is no knock on Obama, for what can compete anymore with a celebrity underage porn trial?

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A Question For Democratic Primary Voters: What Is The Value Of Higher Education?

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Educated Voters, Oregon, Kentucky, Uneducated Voters, Cultural Divide, Democratic Primaries, Politics News

These primaries seem to be a clash between those who didn't go to college and those who did. Parents who didn't go very often want their kids to -- who will then turn into Obama types.

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Hillary's Gift to the American People (and Barack Obama)

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

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If we step back and really look at the Democratic presidential race for 2008, the gift bestowed by Hillary Clinton shines through. Her staying in the ...

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Mrs. Clinton and the Dying of the Dream

Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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The dream may be dying. But there is no reason that this must be her last dream. Death may be about finality, but it is also about new beginnings.

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How to Lose an Election 101

Keli Goff | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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Here's a look at the top 10 people and moments that are helping the Democrats return to the glory days of loserdom.

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Carolina On My Mind

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primaries, Election 2008, Obama, Clinton, Superdelegates, North Carolina Primary, Politics News

If Hillary loses North Carolina tonight, it's over. Any superdelegate who is sentient and truly not committed should bring this thing to an end, by endorsing Obama as quickly as possible.

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Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid Says Hillary Clinton Should Stay In The Race: "People Should Just Cool Their Jets"

Erin Medlicott | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

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"This primary is a good thing. Democrats have developed a way to raise $100 million, 80 percent in donations under $90. We have millions more registered voters, 50,000 new Democrats in Nevada."

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Indiana, North Carolina Primaries Have Potential To Reshape Competition

New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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It's almost over. Well, not quite. But the Democratic presidential primaries taking place on Tuesday in North Carolina and Indiana have more delegate...

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Anyone Want a Few Million More Votes?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Single voters play favorites, their favorites are Democrats, and there are about 92 million of them eligible to vote.

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Democrats Propose New Whites-Only Primary

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Under this proposal, the Democratic Party would only count the votes of Caucasians whose income level is considered to be "working class," and conservative - or, as the official put it, "culturally non-elite."

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This Time Listen to Chicken Little

R.T. Eby | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home

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So go ahead Indiana and North Carolina, step up and pull that lever for Clinton. You'll make Limbaugh's dream of riots in Denver come true, rhetorically if not literally.

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Superdelegates Must Tell Color of Change What it Can Do With its Silly Vote for Obama Petition

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

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The assumption that all blacks scream with one voice for Obama is foolish, arrogant, and racially myopic.

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From 'A More Perfect Union' to Prices at the Grand Union

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

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It's becoming clear that Obama needs to do a better job speaking to the kind of voter once condescendingly described as a "regular person."

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Vote Demographics Spells Much Bigger Trouble for Obama than Pennsylvania Loss

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home

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Barack Obama's decisive Pennsylvania loss to Hillary Clinton was predictable and inevitable. Obama pretty much confirmed that when he tossed in the to...

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Is Hillary Lucky to be a White Woman?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

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Obviously Clinton put herself in the ballgame by running an effective campaign and holding views that appeal to the voters. But after she crossed these thresholds, it has helped her that she is a woman.

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Pennsylvania Outcome Won't Sway Superdelegates But Money Will

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

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Politics being politics, money and favoritism are making a mockery of the ideal of letting superdelegates decide a nominee purely on their conscience and the best interests of the party.

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Just How Soft has Obama's Coverage Been?

Taylor Marsh | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Finally Obama got real questions for which he should have had ready answers. Forgive me if all the blogospheric bellyaching permeating Democratic circles is not impressing me much.

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