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Sam Stein

Ickes: "Undercurrent Of Racial Implications" Coming From GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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One of the chief strategists of the modern Democratic Party criticized the McCain campaign and its crowds on Monday for fostering an "undercurrent of ...

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Hillary Clinton Campaign Insiders Dish On What Went Wrong

Vanity Fair | Gail Sheehy | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's Campaign, Harold Ickes, Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, Politics News

Vanity Fair's Gail Sheehy talks to Clinton insiders about what went wrong with her once 'inevitable' campaign. See excerpts below and read the entire...

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Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Ickes: Obama and Clinton Can't Win

Ari Melber | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Ari Melber

The RNC is trying to drudge up an intraparty "attack," but it sounds more like warmed-over punditry.

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Hillary Clinton's Last Hurrah

Michael Carmichael | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

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Michael Carmichael

The final syllables Clinton's campaign echo in the winds of history in the form of a curious series of statements that combine to form the "last hurrah" of her now-passé political era.

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Bill Explodes But Then Apologizes

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

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Carol Felsenthal

Wouldn't it have been better for Hillary, if, on the eve of the last two primaries, as practically everyone has her finally quitting the race, for Bill to have just kept his mouth shut?

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Thomas B. Edsall

Obama's Debt To Harold Ickes

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama stands on the brink of capturing the presidential nomination in large part because of Democratic Party reforms initiated by the civil rig...

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Fashion Faux Politics

Briana R. Morgan | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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Briana R. Morgan

Democratic Party leaders must think long and hard about the identity of the party. They must decide what they want that party to be in the future. Maybe next time, having two highly qualified candidates won't be such a tragedy.

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Michigan and Florida: The Biggest Losers

Tom Douglas | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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Tom Douglas

There are at least two reasons why the DNC's rules committee should not even have met on Saturday to discuss resolving the flawed Michigan and Florida primaries. It was a net loss for the DNC.

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Reading The Pictures: Scenes From The Sausage Factory

Michael Shaw | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media

Read More: DNC Rules Committee, C-Span, Harold Ickes, Chris Matthews, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-06-02-hynes_ward_shaw.jpgIt was a rare and total pleasure witnessing the democratic process play out on C-SPAN, completely unmediated by the talking heads.

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The Rules Committee Finds A Solution And Hillary Finds Her Voice...Again

Linda Hansen | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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Linda Hansen

If the DNC nominating system really bothered her, the experienced "ready to lead from Day One" candidate would have known what to do and how to do it. And when. She'd have "gotten the job done" long before now.

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It's Over!

R.T. Eby | Posted 06.01.2008 | Home

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R.T. Eby

The Clinton campaign has sunk so low they could walk under a snake's belly with stilts on. Thankfully, Nancy Pelosi has made it clear that in her role as leader of the Democratic Convention she isn't going to suffer fools.

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Ickes' Breakey Heart as the Fight Winds Down

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

Harold Ickes, hand wringing throughout the DNC's hearing this afternoon, sounded more like someone fresh off a breakup than a Hillary Clinton's surrogate.

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The Primary Punishment

Nora McAlvanah | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iowa and New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton, Florida, Dnc, Harold Ickes, Barack Obama, Michigan, Politics News
Nora McAlvanah

Part of righting the wrongs in Florida and Michigan will require the DNC realizing the role they played in the flawed process.

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Thomas B. Edsall

Ickes At The Alamo: Clinton's Delegate Counter Warns Of Defections At DNC Meeting

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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The major dispute over the Florida and Michigan delegations to the Democratic convention in Denver has now boiled down to Hillary Clinton's demand for...

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The Trap: Clinton's "Briarpatch" Strategy For The DNC Rules Committee Meeting

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

A compromise Democratic Party decision tomorrow on how to allocate the Mich. and Fl. delegates will not be a setback for Clinton. On the contrary, it will give her the fodder she needs to continue her campaign.

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Moving Clinton's Goalposts, Again

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

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Martin Nolan

Hillary Clinton and her inventive mathematicians see a parallel between Robert Mugabe and George McGovern, who won the 1972 presidential nomination while losing the popular vote.

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Ban the Pundits

Marvin Kitman | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media

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Marvin Kitman

If there is such a thing as poetic license, why shouldn't pundits be licensed? You need a license before you can drive a car legally. The information highway is equally fraught with dangers.

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Clinton Campaign Reduced to Sketch Comedy

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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Tom D'Antoni

The Clinton campaign has turned out to be as idiotically funny as the current TV spots DirecTV has been running.

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"The Most Shocking Story You Will Ever Read!" -- Why Clinton's National Enquirer Strategy Is Bound to Fail

John Eskow | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

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John Eskow

Just as the Enquirer's readership continues to plunge, so too does the future of Clinton's political campaign, in a colossal twin belly-flop. It's a marriage made in tabloid heaven.

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Top Clinton Aide: Wright Is Key Issue In My Talks With Superdels

Talking Points Memo | Greg Sargent | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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In an interview with me this morning, senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a key topic in his discussions wi...

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Harold Ickes, Hillary's "Hammer"

Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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Harold M. Ickes never forgets a favor, especially if he's the one who did the favor. So the veteran political operative made sure that, when the time ...

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Civil War in Hillaryland

Dylan Loewe | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Harold Ickes, Mandy Grunwald, Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, Guy Cecil, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Pollster Mark Penn, Clinton Mandy Grunwald, Hillary Clinton Mark Penn, Hillary Campaign, Clinton Campaign, Politics News
Dylan Loewe

Is Hillary going to run a general election campaign the way she ran her primary race? Can Democrats really afford Mark Penn and Harold Ickes throwing temper tantrums through the fall?

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The Campaign of Magical Thinking

Jennifer Nix | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Magical Thinking, Delegates, Harold Ickes, Democratic Nomination, Ohio, Superdelegates, Fear-Mongering, Texas, Democrats, Clinton, Obama, Politics News
Jennifer Nix

With Clinton's inevitability turned to dust and her losses in 11 straight contests pointing to the likely end of her campaign, her staffers are busying themselves with ominous tasks to fend off the shock.

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Why Hillary Will Win

Marvin Kitman | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Marvin Kitman

We can assume the War Room warriors have finished their background checks on the superdelegates.

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