Barack Obama’s campaign’s superiority in its use of the internet as a political tool in the US presidential race was underlined in by a new media conference in New York yesterday, where senior Republican advisers admitted their party had become complacent in the past four years and lost the initiative.
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By Anastacia Mott Austin
You’ve probably heard some of the rumors already. That Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim, that he was sworn into the Senate holding a Koran, that he refuses to recite the pledge of allegiance.
The most recent rumor to hit the mills is the claim that Obama’s wife Michelle used the pulpit of […]
Barack Obama takes the presidential battle to the enemy today by beginning a two-week tour of contested states in which he will seek to portray himself as a more reliable tonic for America’s ailing economy than his Republican party rival John McCain.
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Barack Obama turned to the hunt for a running mate Wednesday, with Hillary Rodham Clinton’s supporters urging him to put her on the ticket now that she’s decided to back his inevitable nomination.
Obama indicated he would at least consider his long-running rival for the No. 2 slot. “Senator Clinton would be on anybody’s short list, […]
By JIM KUHNHENN and BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writers
YANKTON, S.D. - Hillary Rodham Clinton pushed through South Dakota Monday as an air of finality and resignation began to settle in among her supporters.
Nancy Sutterer, a 52-year-old unemployed technician, implored Clinton at a restaurant stop to tackle the economy “wherever you’re at, whatever you’re doing.”
From that […]
Barack Obama is predicting the Democratic race with Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination will be over by Tuesday after a party showdown in Washington today and the completion of the primary contest season.
Obama said he believed he would have accumulated enough delegates at that point to declare himself the Democratic nominee to face the […]
For plenty of people, Hillary Clinton’s cringingly false boast in March that she had dodged the bullets at Tuzla airport during a visit to Bosnia in 1996 was a defining moment of exposure in her long contest with Barack Obama. After that, for many voters, she had lost it.
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Feverish speculation was mounting last night over who Republican presidential nominee John McCain might choose to be his running mate in his campaign to win the White House.
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After declaring the Democratic nomination “within reach” following the Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama today began walking the delicate line of uniting the party without appearing to force Hillary Clinton out of the presidential race.
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The language of the internal party memo was stark and brutally honest. Sent out by Republican congressman Tom Davis last week after a stunning congressional by-election loss in the Deep South, it warned colleagues of a potential disaster ahead.
The result, in which the Democratic party won a Mississippi House of Representatives seat that had […]