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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 clear sky and the sign “Mission Accomplished”. America the beautiful. America the invincible.
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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 voted 62 per cent for President Bush in 2004, was a sign of a ‘toxic’ political environment for Republicans, Davis wrote. He went on to point out the loss was the Republicans’ third defeat in a row in special elections - the equivalent of a by-election in Britain - this year alone. Davis’s memo dubbed the defeats ‘canaries in the coalmine’ for the survival of the Republican party.
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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 the Democratic nomination contest began on January 3.

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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) for Obama. The former North Carolina senator John Edwards picked up the remaining 7%, despite having left the race at the end of January.
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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, she is too far behind Obama in terms of delegates - who will decide the Democratic nomination - to catch him.
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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 2006 hit Our Country at campaign rallies, while Hillary Clinton chose Small Town (”But I’ve seen it all in a small town/ Had myself a ball in a small town”). Mellencamp himself has performed at rallies for both Obama and Clinton. But who does Mellencamp actually support?
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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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