After Super Tuesday
What separates Clinton and Obama is not simply personality and tone, it's the fact that there are warring demographics that represent each candidacy.
What separates Clinton and Obama is not simply personality and tone, it's the fact that there are warring demographics that represent each candidacy.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Obama and McCain's overlapping oratories could not have been more different. One soared; the other plodded. One caused goose bumps; the other caused eyelids to flutter shut. One felt newly minted; the other could have been given by Herbert Hoover (and maybe was). Read More The 2008 Race for President and the Search for Our Better Selves It is time we recognize that our search for a great president is also a search for our better selves. Finally, a political litmus test that matters: Which presidential candidate can lead us to do more good than we think we're capable of? Read More
Politico | Mike Allen | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
The Politico reports: In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in ne...
Associated Press | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
With turnout far exceeding expectations, Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were separated by roughly 100 votes early Wednesday...
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
His campaign thought dead and now resurrected, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee greeted his supporters ebulliently after winning contests in West Vi...
Off The Bus | Posted 02.06.2008 | Home
Former HuffPost editor E.A. Hanks caught Meghan McCain on the phone yesterday to chat about life aboard the Straight Talk Express. Check out Hanks'...
Catherine Crier | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Pundits focus on women, African Americans and Latinos. What about the white male? In the privacy of the voting booth, where will the white men go in November? Hillary Clinton should be worried.
Washington Post | Anne E. Kornblut and Lyndsey Layton | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama won the Kennedys, key members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation and support from the charismatic African American govern...
ABC News | Gary Langer | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Republican John McCain won a sweeping victory on Super Tuesday even without winning the conservative base of his party, while Hillary Clinton and Bara...
Talking Points Memo | Josh Marshall | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Before we give way to the night, let me try to pull together some rough thoughts on what happened here tonight. It's probably best to start with the i...
Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Obama has, at this point, won 11 states, of 22 in play. Worst-case scenario, he's already won half. If he picks up Alaska, which I suspect he will, he...
Oliver Willis | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Sens. Clinton and Obama: In order to counteract that and also demonstrate to primary voters your national appeal, it's time to brutally compare yourselves and the Democratic party versus John McCain and his party.
AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
PHOENIX — Who would have believed it? John McCain _ occasional antagonist of the establishment, defender of an unpopular war, loser of the 2000 ...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — John McCain's string of victories in the Northeast and across the country put him on the brink of being unstoppable. The Arizona s...
Bob Cesca | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Even with CA going decisively for Clinton, this is still a winning night for Obama based on the polling and expectations leading into the week.
Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
The initial Super Tuesday exit polls -- take with caution: Democrats CT: Clinton - 45, Obama - 52.2 IL: Clinton - 29.1, Obama - 69.6 AL: Clinton - 37...
Boston Globe's Political Intelligence | Michael Levenson | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, voted about 2:30 this afternoon at Belmont Town Hall, the culmination of a grueling 38 hours of nonstop campaigning tha...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Today is all about the delegates, and of course, the voters. HuffPost brings you a live delegate counter - courtesy of ABC news - so that you can keep...
Marc Cooper | Posted 02.05.2008 | Home
Whoever wins the most votes in the California battle, and is therefore perceived to be the inevitable nominee, is likely to actually become the Democratic nominee.
Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton had to cut short an interview on San Francisco television this morning because of a troubling coughing fit. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Check back here for the latest Super Tuesday information on John McCain. Looking for the other candidates> Click over to Barack Obama, Hillary Clint...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain swept a string of delegate-rich, East Coast primaries Tuesday night, reaching for command of the race for the Repu...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Check back here for the latest Super Tuesday information on Hillary Clinton. Looking for the other candidates? Click over to Barack Obama, John McCai...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Even if you believe that Clinton would make a better president than Obama, it's still vital that you vote for Obama to guarantee that the next president will not be McCain.
Huffington Post | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
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John Zogby | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics