Super Tuesday

Clinton's Health Plan May Require Tapping Into Wages

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance to achieve c...

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On Youth Voters, Bill Clinton, And How He's Destroying a Legacy

Chuck Lippstreu | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

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Chuck Lippstreu

Young voters want to respond to George W. just like everyone else -- but we don't harbor a desire to "turn back the clock" to the Clinton years, because we don't remember them well enough.

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It Depends on What Meaning of "Win" Wins

Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

If your definition of reality depends on the media, you're in deep trouble. The talking heads are already disagreeing with one another about what the benchmarks of victory should be.

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Cindy McCain's Grudge List

London Times | Tony Allen-Mills | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

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ON almost every step of his march towards the Republican nomination, John McCain has relied on the support of his glamorous second wife Cindy. Yet she...

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Super Tuesday: Guide to Decide

Bill Scher | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

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Bill Scher

For this week's edition of the LiberalOasis Radio Show, I offered a "Guide to Decide" for Super Tuesday, in which (I think!) neither the words "experience" or "change" were uttered.

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Super Bowl Tuesday?

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 02.02.2008 | Home

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Jacob Soboroff

We vote on Tuesday, a day smack in the middle of the work week. So I hit the streets to find out what would happen if we moved the Super Bowl to Tuesday.

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Campaigning Grows Furious As Tuesday Approaches

New York Times | JEFF ZELENY and ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 02.02.2008 | Politics

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The presidential campaign played to new audiences on Saturday as the leading Democratic and Republican candidates fanned out across the nation, drawin...

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From Obama Supporter to Volunteer in Three Days

Matt Townsend | Posted 02.02.2008 | Home

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Matt Townsend

My younger sister called me Saturday afternoon from Denver, Col. with excitement in her voice. "I just got back from phone banking, and it was aweso...

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Obama Rewriting Rules of Conventional Campaigning

Andrew Gumbel | Posted 02.02.2008 | Home

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Andrew Gumbel

Already Obama has subverted expectations by being a contender in California at all.

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Air America's "7 Days" Podcast

Huff Radio | Posted 02.02.2008 | Politics

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Huff Radio

Arianna, Mark Green, and Bob Shrum discuss Super Tuesday, and Ted Sorensen compares Barack to JFK.

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Ripped Paper and Robocalls

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 02.02.2008 | Politics

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Jeffrey Feldman

The ripped paper sign of the Obama campaign left me with a sense that The Obama campaign is about participation. The Clinton campaign's robocall left me with a sense that Hillary's campaign is about broadcast.

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Obama Hot On Hillary's Heels In California

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 02.02.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

At Thursday's town hall meeting in Los Angeles, Mitchell Schwartz, the head of Obama's California Campaign, was jubilant. "The latest Rasmussen Poll ...

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Thomas B. Edsall

Obama Steadily Gaining Support Across The Country, But It May Not Be Enough

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 02.02.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama continues to make steady gains in every major Tsunami Tuesday state just three days before what is a virtual national primary but he stil...

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McCain Courts Conservative Vote Ahead Of Super Tuesday

Reuters | Steve Holland | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Presidential candidate John McCain urged skeptical conservatives on Friday to rally behind him and said he might clinch the Republican nomination in c...

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Friday Talking Points [17]

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

This column is dedicated to the idea that Democrats can learn to use talking points as effectively as Republicans often do. This idea annoys many who...

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Obama's Already Won

David Margolick | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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David Margolick

Only he can now say that at some point, some day, he will be the Democratic presidential nominee. I'd still put his chances for 2008 at less than 50-50, but he's rapidly approaching that mark.

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Poor Lou Dobbs: Latino Immigrants Will Decide Our Next President

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Blake Fleetwood

After months and months of spewing out hate speech against Hispanics and undocumented workers, Lou Dobbs is having a fit. On his recent CNN nightly n...

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Dodd, Richardson Will Not Endorse Before Super Tuesday

The Page | Mark Halperin | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Dodd holds media availability Friday to say he won't endorse before Connecticut primary. Richardson advisers tell The Atlantic he won't endorse eithe...

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Making History on Super Tuesday

Ted Sorensen | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Ted Sorensen

The way Sen. Obama thinks and speaks about our problems, the way he seeks leadership not for the power and glory but for the things we need, is more like JFK than any president or presidential candidate since 1963.

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Super Duper Fat Tuesday

Will Durst | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Will Durst

They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing, you know. Actually, they call it Super Tuesday more for the quantity of states voting and not for the quality of the participants involved.

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Cool Invitation for Super Tuesday Party from the Obamas

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

I just got an invite from Barack and Michelle Obama to spend Super Tuesday primary night with them in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

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Hillary Summons Her Inner Clintonian

Beverly Davis | Posted 02.01.2008 | Home

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Beverly Davis

While there were no major slap downs, Obama won tonight's debate against Hillary Clinton, because he finally found his voice by undercutting her claim to "be ready on day one" by saying "you have to be right on day one."

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Marc Cooper

Obama Woos Latino Vote Ahead Of Hollywood Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

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Los Angeles, California -- Just hours before a dramatic one-on-one televised debate with rival Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama led his campaign in...

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Traditional Polling Methods Do Not Work for Nontraditional Candidates

Joel Weinberger and Robert F. Bornstein | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

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Joel Weinberger and Robert F. Bornstein

Traditional polling might be wonderfully predictive in a traditional race, but woefully inadequate when we have the historically unprecedented case of an African American and a woman competing.

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Big Mac's Iraq Hundred Years' War

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

It must stoke the patriotic fantasies in Republican voters' hearts to hear McCain talk convincingly about "victory" in Iraq when everyone, including his hero, Gen. Petraeus, avoids that word like the plague.

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