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McCain Boosted In Michigan by Economic Gloom and Romney Rumors

Dan Treul | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home

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If McCain picks Mitt Romney, son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, as his running mate, Obama will almost certainly be forced to devote significant resources to maintain a close race in the state.

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Midwest Auto Workers Look To Obama For Change

Dan Treul | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

"GM won't change anything until they have every operation overseas," says Danny. "This started back in the 1980s with Reagan... We know we're not going to get any help from McCain."

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The Holdouts: Michigan's Brewer Yet To Endorse Obama

Dan Treul | Posted 06.28.2008 | Home

While Gov. Jennifer Granholm has come over strongly to Obama, waving a blue heeled shoe in the air on one occasion, Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer has been conspicuously inarticulate.

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Midwest Editors Shifting On Gay Marriage

Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

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In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.

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Does Obama have a thing for Michigan?

Dan Treul | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home

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If Obama aims to win without having to carry Florida and Ohio, then Michigan and its 17 electoral votes will be critical, which explains the campaign's preference for staging big announcements there.

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McCain Spends $1M Campaigning Without Rival In Mich.

Dan Treul | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home

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McCain has been managing to lose a race against no one in the critical general election state, despite spending more than $500,000 per week since the end of May on TV ads there.

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Wisconsin Diary: My Grandparents Think McCain's Too Old

Dan Treul | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home

In a northern Midwestern town, at my cousin's graduation, I got a glimpse of something remarkable, something that may signal yet more troublesome news to the already troubled regiment of McCain campaign strategists.

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A Question For Angry Hillary Supporters

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

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If the situation today were precisely reversed and if Hillary were in Barack's place and she were in his -- what would you be saying about Florida and Michigan?

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Obama Countdown; Clinton Spin: Press Release Tea Leaves

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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The delegate countdown is revealing on both sides. Clinton press releases portray a two-person race. Obama's portray the race as a solitary time trial. In any case, he'll reach the number Tuesday.

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Michigan and Florida: The Biggest Losers

Tom Douglas | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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

Linda Hansen | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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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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Gore's Sacrifice Squandered

Dan Treul | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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Gore took a bullet for the party in 2000. The GOP cheated in FL and everyone knew it. But his sacrifice has been squandered by Clinton. Thanks to her, the GOP no longer has the market on voting fraud.

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My Evening With Harriet Christian

Will Bower | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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The DNC has committed an act of war. YouTube darling Harriet Christian fired back bullets of passion. Pretty? No. But she revealed the depth of frustration many people are feeling right now. That she did.

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Splitting the Florida and Michigan Babies, Unifying the Party (& Wexler for Veep!)

Brad Friedman | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

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While it's not necessarily germane to the decisions being made by the DNC, Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida should be made Barack Obama's vice presidential nominee.

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It's Not the Candidates' Fault

Daniel Altman | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

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Why should Obama and Clinton take the blame for the dispute that peaked with this week's ruling? They didn't make the decisions that led to the debacle.

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Hillary Supporters Rally on the Sunset Strip

Natasha Chen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Home

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L.A. Clinton supporters rallied Friday to encourage the DNC to seat all delegates from Fl. and Mich. Some threatened to write in Clinton's name in November no matter who is on the ballot.

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The Buried Florida & Michigan Story: Why Campaigning Matters

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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Why dock Florida's delegates? For a relatively unknown challenger like Obama, taking on someone as massively visible as Clinton, in-person campaigning is essential, and he had no chance to do it there.

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The Next Clinton Battleground: DNC Rules Committee Meeting

Linda Hansen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Home

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You'll see footage this weekend of Clinton supporters angrily crashing the DNC's Rules and By-laws Committee meeting, insisting all MI and FL delegates go to Clinton. You will see almost no Obama supporters there.

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The Primary Punishment

Nora McAlvanah | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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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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Pelosi: "I Will Step In" To End Race Before Convention

CNN | Alexander Mooney | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Clinton has hinted that she is prepared to take her fight to fully seat Florida and Michigan all the way to the party's convention in late Aug...

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Some Free Political Advice from Bob Dole

Al Eisele | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home

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Bob Dole, who knows something about winning -- and losing -- presidential elections, has two pieces of free advice for the 2008 White House hopefuls.

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A Message to Uncommitted Superdelegates: You Must Commit This Week or Risk a McCain Presidency

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

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Superdelegates may have hoped that they could wait to commit and simply ratify a majority already in place. It's now too late for that.

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No Longer Staring Into the Abyss of an Obama-Clinton Ticket

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

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Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.

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Clinton and RFK Deserve Better

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

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Her Kennedy remark, apology and clarification, won't mean much. It will only increase the drumbeat calls for her to withdraw. Clinton and RFK deserve better and neither will get it.

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Clinton and the Delegates: A Friendly Reply to Rachel Maddow

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

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If the Dems ran primaries on a winner-take-all basis like they once did, like the electoral vote is handed out in the general election, Clinton would have already won the nomination with over 2,000 delegates.

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