Iowa

Obama's Clouded Victory Rally

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

In the VIP line at the rally were those who had caucused for Edwards, Kucinich, Richardson, Biden and Dodd. There were Iowans for all the Democratic candidates. Except one. And there were no Republicans.

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Does Everyone Matter Equally?

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.18.2008 | Home

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Sally Kohn

From the superdelegate process to the farm bill to the recent raid on immigrants in Iowa, elitism is rearing its nipped-and-tucked head all across America.

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Reading The Pictures: Preparing For The Second Coming (Of Obama-Mania)

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home

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Michael Shaw

2008-05-08-china_shaw_obama.jpg At the moment at which the Democratic race apparently reached its tipping point, I saw as quick and dramatic a flip in the visual tone as I've ever seen before.

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Superdelegates Still Splitting Support: Clinton Picks Up Two; Obama Three

Erin Medlicott | Posted 04.29.2008 | Home

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Erin Medlicott

Reflecting recent seesawing in the race for the Democratic nomination, which seemed all but won by Obama two weeks ago, Party superdelegates, far from tipping the race, are still divided.

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Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.26.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.

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Hillary Clinton Supporters -- The Global Warming Deniers of Democratic Politics?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home

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Cenk Uygur

The Clinton team is now trying to make the specious argument that she is winning in the popular vote. The first problem with that argument is that it's not true.

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The Day Hillary Clinton Knew She Had Lost

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

That she has been able to stay in the race at all is a testament to the power of the Clinton name, the Dem's ludicrous electoral system, and her hold over a petrified media and the party's bureaucratic elite.

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Clinton And Obama Woo Edwards' Iowa Delegates

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 03.15.2008 | Home

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up nine d...

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It's Back to Iowa, for Round 2

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 03.12.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — Not so fast, Pennsylvania. The next stop in the Democratic presidential race is ... Iowa. Yes, Iowa....

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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Urgent Weather Alert: Advice from a Cityslicker After Her First Iowa Winter

Christine Whelan | Posted 03.10.2008 | Home

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Christine Whelan

I'm from NY where your winter storm survival kit is $20 for a taxi, your two-inch wedges instead of your three-inch stilettos and a fashionable, but not-very-warm, belted trench.

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Clinton's General Election Disaster in the Making

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate.

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When Losing is Winning

Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.29.2008 | Home

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Dylan Loewe

On the other side of an exceptional month for Obama, one thing has become clear: the loss in New Hampshire proved ironically valuable.

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Clinton Campaigning As She Would Govern

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.22.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

It is mind-boggling that the Clinton campaign could have failed to understand the importance of two key factors: the yearning for change, and the distaste for the street-fighting brutality that is the Clintons' trademark.

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Chess. Not Boxing.

Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.21.2008 | Home

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Dylan Loewe

While Mark Penn was boxing, David Axelrod was playing chess. His decisions have been made within a long-term strategic framework, designed with a focus, three, four, sometimes five moves ahead.

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The Memo That Could Have Made Hillary President

Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.18.2008 | Home

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Dylan Loewe

In May of 2007, Campaign Manager Mike Henry advocated that Clinton forego Iowa. It reasoned that Iowa was the weakest of the early states and a loss there could be irreparable.

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Beverly Davis | Posted 02.14.2008 | Home

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Clinton Spinning Into Twilight Zone

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.11.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

The Clinton operation's dismissive attitude towards the states that she loses feels uncomfortably like a post-facto snub by the aggrieved party in a break up: "he's not really my type anyway."

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Sam Stein

Massachusetts College-Kids Went To Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.05.2008 | Home

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In what became a relatively close battle, Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Massachusetts primary despite the fact that her rival, Sen. Barack Obama, had t...

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Political Traders: Can't Get Enough of That Hillary Stuff

NYCity News Service | Posted 02.03.2008 | Home

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The IEM political market for the Democratic nomination currently prices Clinton at about 60 cents. Obama is at 37 cents.

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The Epic 2008 Election (So Far)

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.30.2008 | Home

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Chris Weigant

Out of the frozen tundra of Iowa, out of the snowy mountains of Vermont, out of the brightly-lit casinos in the Nevada desert, out of the churches of ...

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My Primary Picks For Florida

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.28.2008 | Home

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Chris Weigant

Ever onwards, into the fray, we return to the latest in a series of primary "picks" columns, this time heading down to Florida to examine the Republic...

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Obama and the Grumpy Old Men

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.20.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

Younger black activists and elected officials are unlikely to feel any loyalty to the Clintons, are engaged by a post-baby-boom candidate and feel more in sync with Obama on the issues.

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I Love the 90s: Gender, Race and the Clintons

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.13.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

Hillary has begun a campaign based on rigorous 1990s politics of identity, a game at which the Clintons excel, using one group against another as the need arises.

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Mitt Romney, Meg Whitman and the Failed CEO Campaign

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.11.2008 | Home

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Paul Jenkins

Meg Whitman, Romney and their Fortune 500 crowd implied that their success at Bain, eBay, et al, would translate into a winning campaign. This has not happened. At all.

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