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Barack and Hillary's Dream

Trey Ellis | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics

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I'm a year younger than Sen. Obama and I'm sure, like the senator, have memorized most all of Reverend King's speech, but oddly, I don't think I ever seriously contemplated the possibility of being elected president.

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Democrats to Address King Day Rally

AP | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Three of the Democrats seeking their party's presidential nomination speak today at a Martin Luther King Day rally at the South...

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Obama Takes on Question of Faith

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Barack Obama is stepping up his effort to correct the misconception that he's a Muslim now that the presidential campaign has h...

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Analysis: Momentum Shifts to Clinton

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics

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FLORISSANT, Mo. — Momentum moving her way, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton must change focus to the tough battle in South Carolina where rival B...

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Obama Gives Away 'Questionable' Funds

AP | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama is giving charity more than $40,000 in past political contributions linked to Chica...

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Obama Camp: Nevada Caucuses "Discredited"

Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics

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UPDATE: New releases from the Obama campaign: Statement from Barack Obama: "We're proud of the campaign we ran in Nevada. We came from over twenty-...

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Key Dems Kennedy, Emanuel Tell Bill Clinton To Stop Obama Attacks

Newsweek | Jonathan Alter | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics

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Prominent Democrats are upset with the aggressive role that Bill Clinton is playing in the 2008 campaign, a role they believe is inappropriate for a f...

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Robocall Trashes "Barack Hussein Obama"

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics

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The Obama campaign has released a recording (mp3) it says came from a Nevadan's answering machine of an anonymous robocall that criticizes Obama for t...

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Analysis: By Staying In Race, Edwards Is Helping Obama

Open Left | Chris Bowers | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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s the arguments against Edwards begin to mount online, I want to point out something that should be obvious to Obama supporters, but which I have rare...

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Clinton Hits Obama For Calling GOP The "Party Of Ideas"

New York Daily News | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Clinton just whacked Barack Obama after he had something complimentary to say about Republicans, in this case that they where the party of ide...

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Obama Takes On Clinton In San Francisco Interview

San Francisco Chronicle | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama launched a direct broadside Thursday at New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's claim that she is the experienced Democratic...

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Clinton Nabs Las Vegas Sun Endorsement

Las Vegas Sun | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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One word can sum up George W. Bush's presidency: incompetence. For seven years this nation has been subjected to an administration riddled with abjec...

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Clinton Asked About Obama As VP

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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Hillary took the question at California State University in Northridge, and took a break from the sparring: "He is an extraordinary man," she said, a...

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Progressive Leader Feingold Split Over Clinton, Obama

Post Crescent | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Russ Feingold has a plan. Getting ready to head back to Washington as Congress is about to resume, the Democratic senator from Wisconsin has comp...

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Marc Cooper

Bill Clinton: Super Surrogate

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.17.2008 | Home

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Boulder City, Nevada-- When it came to crunch time earlier this month during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton called out a...

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Reno Journal-Gazette Has Romney, Clinton Leading

Las Vegas Sun | Jon Ralston | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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The RJ, ever-fearful that the Internet-illiterate newspaper will be scooped on its own information by someone who knows about new media, put out its r...

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Marc Cooper

Nevada Unions Pump Up For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.17.2008 | Home

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Throughout Nevada, union activists are mobilized and deployed to support rival Democratic campaigns. In this video, we see Dale Jackson of the Service...

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Sam Stein

Reagan Advisers See A Bit Of Their Former Boss In Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama found himself under fire on Thursday for having compared his candidacy to Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential run. "I don't want to presen...

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Edwards Rips Obama Over Reagan Comparison

CBS News | Aaron Lewis | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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John Edwards ripped Barack Obama for praising the way Ronald Reagan brought about change when he was President of the United States.... ..."He was op...

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Rove Neglects To Mention Bush Once

Think Progress | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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Karl Rove, President Bush's former chief political strategist, delivered a 3,200 word speech yesterday rebuking Democratic presidential candidates Bar...

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Obama Unhappy With Aides Over 'Race Memo'

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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My colleague Carrie Budoff Brown reports: Sen. Barack Obama told his top campaign aides that he was "unhappy" about a staff-written memo about allege...

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Marc Cooper

Video: John Edwards Disses Clinton On Social Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.17.2008 | Home

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John Edwards says he's not going anywhere, except straight ahead into this Saturday's Nevada cacuses. After an appearance at the Carpenters Union in L...

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Novak: Clintons Using Term "Vetted" As Racial Code

Real Clear Politics | Robert Novak | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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With Barack Obama nipping at her heels in Iowa, Hillary Clinton went on the state's public television Dec. 14 to say: "I've been vetted. ... There are...

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Hillary Recycled Old NAACP Endorsement On MLK Day

The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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The campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) recycled a nine-month-old endorsement from an NAACP leader earlier this week when the discussion ab...

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Group Of Jewish Leaders Condemn "Hateful Emails" About Obama

NY Times | James Barron | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

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The leaders of nine Jewish groups released an open letter on Tuesday condemning what they called "hateful e-mails" that they said spread lies about Se...

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