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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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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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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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 Wins North Carolina

Hillary Clinton failed to close the gap on Barack Obama in their marathon race for the Democratic nomination early today in the last two big primaries, Indiana and North Carolina.
Clinton needed to win big in both states to stand a chance of reining him in.

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Clinton on the Edge As She Fails to Pull Off Double Win

Hillary Clinton’s hopes of winning the race for the Democratic nomination for president were dwindling last night as she failed to close the gap on Barack Obama, who won a clear victory in North Carolina.
She had needed to win big in both North Carolina and Indiana, which went to the polls yesterday, to stand a […]

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