Obama Sets Sights on Finishing Line

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 […]

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The False Rhinoceros is Alive and Well in Modern Politics

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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McCain’s A-list Barbeque Fires Election Gossip

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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Clinton Has Run Her Campaign the Same Way Bush Has Run the Country

We all saw it. Indeed, that was the whole point. In the US, the networks stopped regular programming so we had little choice. The White House wanted to make sure we caught the full dramatic impact of the US president landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln in a navy jet against a backdrop of a […]

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Obama Walks Tightrope Between Victory and Party Unity

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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Obama Draws Nearer to Securing Democratic Nomination

Barack Obama drew within 70 delegates of outright victory in his protracted battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination today after the Oregon and Kentucky primaries.

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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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