Democratic Presidential Candidate

Behind Obama's Wave of Victories: The More They Know Him.....

Paul Loeb | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

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Paul Loeb

As Obama began winning, voters who'd been paying only peripheral attention have started taking him seriously, while their reservations about Clinton have only grown.

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Health Care Change -- Let's Get Specific

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

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Kathleen Reardon

Where is the health care quality debate? What good is mandating insurance coverage if we don't also insist that it lead to improving lives, no matter the socioeconomic status of patients?

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Obama Wins Maryland Primary

James Freedman | Posted 02.13.2008 | Home

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James Freedman

Barack Obama won Maryland's Democratic primary yesterday, continuing his post-Super Tuesday winning streak and building momentum in a race that is sti...

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Bill Clinton Calls Obama Campagin "Smoke And Mirrors"

The Examiner | Susan Ferrechio | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

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With Virginia considered Hillary Clinton's best chance in the Potomac Primary, Bill Clinton packed his schedule with three stops Monday in the Old Dom...

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Max Follmer

Price Tag Precludes Re-Vote In Michigan And Florida

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

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The controversial Florida and Michigan Democratic primaries will most likely not be rescheduled, as some activists have recently demanded, according ...

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Colin Powell May Support Democrat Or Independent In 2008

CNN's Political Ticker | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican who served under President Bush, said Friday he may not back the GOP presidential nominee in Nove...

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Bowers: Super Delegates To Determine Nominee

Open Left | Chris Bowers | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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It can no longer be avoided: super delegates will determine the Democratic Presidential nominee this year. Here is the current situation: * With ...

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Robert DeNiro Gets Out For Obama

Boston Globe's Political Intelligence | Scott Helman | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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Wait, wait, wait. Now Robert De Niro is for hope, too? This is really getting surreal. De Niro, the dean of "Goodfellas" thuggery, just made a surpri...

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Obama Campaign Memo Seeks To Frame Tuesday Results

Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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The Obama campaign has released a memo, seeking to set expectations for the results of Super Tuesday. The memo focuses on the tightening of polling i...

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Vanity Fair Profiles Obama

Vanity Fair | Todd Purdum | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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By the fall of 2002, Barack Obama had been in the Illinois state senate for not quite six years. He was a member of the Democratic minority, represent...

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Obama Uses McCain To Show Differences With Clinton

Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama, in recent days, has been encouraging people to think of him in comparison to John McCain, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination....

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Michael Moore Still Undecided On The Presidential Race

US Magazine | Henry Seltzer | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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Michael Moore is no stranger to politics, but he hasn't decided who he'll be supporting for president. "I haven't made a decision yet," the Sicko dir...

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Krugman: Zero Chance Of Universal Health Care With Obama

NY Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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The principal policy division between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama involves health care. It's a division that can seem technical and obscure -- an...

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Why Not the Best?

Bob Burnett | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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Bob Burnett

On February 5th, "Super Tuesday," millions of Americans will select either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for President. ...

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Meet The Progressives

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

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Allison Kilkenny

In trying to gain more supporters and ever expand their email list, MoveOn began to fall victim to the old liberal vulnerability. They became the champion of too many causes.

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A Huff Postscript

Steven Weber | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

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Steven Weber

Easily made to weep at any screening of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, I am going where my heart (and head) is leading me: I am going for Obama.

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Union That Endorsed Edwards Switches To Obama

NY Times' The Caucus | Steven Greenhouse | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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The Transport Workers Union, which represents 140,000 active workers, is expected to announce Friday that it will become the first union that had back...

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Reverse: Obama Camp Now Says He Opposes Pot Decriminalization

Washington Times | Jen Haberkorn | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama, the senatorial candidate of 2004, might have a bone to pick with Barack Obama, the presidential candidate of 2008. Videotapes of debate...

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Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker Endorses Obama

Wall Street Journal | Jackie Calms | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the latest big name to endorse Sen. Barack Obama, could give the Illinois Democrat a boost by lending hi...

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Obama Raises $32 Million in January

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — One tapped his bounty of fans; the other his bounty of fortune. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised a staggering...

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Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions

ABC's The Blotter | BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER and RHONDA SCHWARTZ | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

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In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world's largest retailer wa...

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Novak: McCain Privately Said Alito Was 'Too Conservative'

Union-Leader | Robert Novak | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

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As John McCain neared his momentous primary election victory in Florida after a ferocious campaign questioning his conservative credentials, right-win...

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Reporter: Obama Has Bungled Rezko Response

Chicago Tribune | Eriz Zorn | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

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A big question I have about the Rezko rumpus is this: Why in the world are there still questions? It was 15 months ago that the Tribune broke the sto...

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John Edwards Exits Doing The Right Thing

Marc Cooper | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

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Marc Cooper

John Edward exits the presidential race having done the right thing -- the right thing in having run the way he did and the right thing in leaving when he does.

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John Edwards Is Out -- Now What, Progressives?

Philip Bump | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

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Philip Bump

Voters who had settled on Edwards for his progressive values are very likely to decide that Obama is their best choice. And in the opinion of this humble commentator, that's the right call.

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