Barack Obama takes the presidential battle to the enemy today by beginning a two-week tour of contested states in which he will seek to portray himself as a more reliable tonic for America’s ailing economy than his Republican party rival John McCain.
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By JIM KUHNHENN and BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writers
YANKTON, S.D. - Hillary Rodham Clinton pushed through South Dakota Monday as an air of finality and resignation began to settle in among her supporters.
Nancy Sutterer, a 52-year-old unemployed technician, implored Clinton at a restaurant stop to tackle the economy “wherever you’re at, whatever you’re doing.”
From that […]
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 […]
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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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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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 […]
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 […]
The director Spike Lee has waded into the ongoing controversy surrounding the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, advising him to do the right thing and keep quiet. “The more he opens his mouth, the more damage he does,” he told the Guardian.
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It is a posture that Barack Obama must be painfully familiar with by now after 20 debates with Hillary Clinton: The Stare. Today, it was John McCain’s turn to feel those wide blue eyes boring into him as he spoke up manfully for a deeply unpopular war in Iraq. The senator from Arizona did not […]