Republicans Fear Obama Victory After Polls Shock

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 […]

Obama Reveals New Superdelegate Endorsements

Barack Obama today buttressed his Democratic nomination frontrunner status with four morning superdelegate endorsements.
The announcement came after Hillary Clinton’s landslide win in the West Virginia primary renewed questions about his ability to win over white working-class voters in the November presidential election.

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Obama Wins Backing From Rival Edwards

Barack Obama received a huge boost on his way to the Democratic nomination yesterday when he beat off Hillary Clinton to secure the endorsement of their former rival John Edwards. The announcement helped to offset Obama’s defeat at the hands of Clinton in the West Virginia primary, one of his worst election results since […]

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Clinton Vows to Fight Until the End

Hillary Clinton won the West Virginia primary by a landslide last night, renewing questions about Barack Obama’s ability to win over white working-class voters in the November presidential election.
With all the votes counted, she was winning by a margin of more than two to one, with 67% (239,062) of the vote compared with 26% (91,652) […]

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Clinton Easily Wins West Virginia

Questions about Barack Obama’s inability to win over white, working-class voters were raised again tonight when Hillary Clinton won a landslide victory in West Virginia, one of the last contests of a prolonged primary season.
Exit polls indicated she had won the state easily, by a margin of two to one. In spite of her win, […]

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Why Are All the Candidates Courting John Mellencamp?

In years to come they will remember it as The Battle for John “Cougar” Mellencamp. For some while now, the US presidential candidates have been tustling over the affections of the 56-year-old singer-songwriter, Indiana native and author of compositions such as Hurts So Good and R.O.C.K in the U.S.A. John McCain took to playing his […]

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Clinton Clings to Presidential Hopes in West Virginia

Hillary Clinton campaigned doggedly in West Virginia today, clinging to her hopes that an anticipated landslide in tomorrow’s primary could interrupt Barack Obama’s slow glide to the Democratic nomination.

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Allegations of Ranch Deal Threaten Mccain’s Clean Image

Left to campaign under the radar as attention focuses on the Democratic race, the Republican John McCain yesterday faced renewed scrutiny of his ties to businesspeople and lobbyists during his years in the Senate.

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Slowly But Surely, the Secretive Superdelegates Opt for Obama

Barack Obama took a rare day off to spend time with his family at home in Chicago after Tuesday’s primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. But he fitted in one trip to his campaign headquarters, to call the most-courted group in the US today, the 250-plus undeclared super delegates who could settle the Democratic race.

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Obama Makes Clearest Hint That Clinton Could Be Running Mate

Barack Obama yesterday gave the clearest hint yet that he may consider Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential running mate in the November election for the White House. With the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination close to finished as a contest, Obama began looking beyond his battles with Clinton to the one with the Republican […]

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