Barack Obama faced renewed questions yesterday about his ability to deliver a Democratic victory in November after his failure to knock out Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary.
With the protracted campaign entering its final phase, Clinton won the primary with 55% of the vote against 45% for Obama, a majority achieved by decisive wins among […]
Barack Obama faced questions about his ability to deliver a Democratic victory in November today after his failure to knock out Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary.
With the protracted campaign entering its final phase, Clinton won the primary with 55% of the vote against 45% for Obama, a majority achieved by decisive wins among white […]
With the Indiana and North Carolina primaries looming, there is no spinning Barack Obama’s loss in Pennsylvania. It was decisive. It went beyond the Obama playbook.
Before Pennsylvania, the case could be made that Obama was a closer. Before Pennsylvania, the longer Obama had to campaign, the more he would close the margin. The feeling was: […]
Relations between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reached a new low at the weekend with a series of increasingly destructive exchanges and “attack” ads ahead of tomorrow’s Pennsylvania primary, the last big contest of the Democratic party’s 15-month presidential nomination campaign.
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Barack Obama is to mount the biggest advertising blitz of the presidential campaign this weekend ahead of Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary in an attempt to force Hillary Clinton out of the race.
With pressure mounting among senior Democratic figures to bring the contest to an early close, Clinton needs a large margin of victory in Tuesday’s primary […]
There is an episode of The Office in which the terminally clueless manager pronounces on the difference between life in the metropolis and that in the economically distressed Pennsylvania town where the hit television series is set.
New York is like Scranton on acid or speed — maybe even steroids, says the boss, played by Steve […]
Barack Obama was forced on the defensive about his core beliefs in a debate with Hillary Clinton that touched on his patriotism, his associations in Chicago, and his attitudes towards working class voters.
The debate was the 21st such encounter between Clinton and Obama - and the last time the two Democrats will share a stage […]
No one tells Pat Beaman that Hillary Clinton cannot win the Democratic nomination to be the next President of America. As she volunteered her help at a Clinton campaign event last week, she responded furiously to the very idea.
‘It is ridiculous to suggest she should quit!’ Beaman said. ‘It was not that long ago that […]
Barack Obama was forced onto the defensive at the weekend over unguarded comments he made about small-town voters across the midwest.
Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion […]
Gordon Brown will next week hold meetings in Washington with each of the three presidential candidates in an attempt to establish a rapport with the man or woman who will become the next US leader.
Although Brown is to visit George Bush at the White House on Thursday, the main focus of his visit is separate […]