Tag: 2008
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December 10, 2007 10:27 AM EST --
Oprah Winfrey hit the trail in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina this past weekend for Barack Obama. In the first-ever election where a woman has a chance of becoming president, Hillary Clinton is . . . more
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April 29, 2008 10:36 AM EDT --
Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, went low profile after clips of his fiery sermons hit the news media in March.
But if some Obama supporters hoped Rev. Wright might go away, they . . . more
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March 19, 2008 10:24 AM EDT --
Barack Obama has worked hard to transcend race on the campaign trail but American and personal history have intervened. Yesterday in Philadelphia, in a speech hailed as historic, Obama squarely addressed . . . more
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December 18, 2007 10:42 AM EST --
Eight years ago, Arizona Senator and presidential candidate John McCain had it all: the war-hero biography, the rock-ribbed conservative credentials, and, most of all, the Straight Talk Express that charmed . . . more
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January 04, 2008 10:52 AM EST --
This may not be the presidential campaign year many people expected. Iowa said its piece last night. And Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have swept their parties' first election year contests. . . . more
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January 08, 2008 11:00 AM EST --
New Hampshire was supposed to be a firewall for the Hillary Clinton campaign -- the primary stronghold where she would anchor her drive for the White House. She led for months in opinion polls but today, . . . more
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January 21, 2008 10:54 AM EST --
It was a big weekend for the candidates with evangelicals, labor and Latinos all weighing in. And while Latinos spoke largely with one voice, favoring Hillary three to one, labor struggled to walk . . . more
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March 10, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Both Florida and Michigan were stripped of their Democratic delegates when they violated party rules and moved up their primaries.
Now, with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama locked in a tight battle, . . . more
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October 31, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
There were issues aplenty, from Iran to social security to immigration and taxes, but the big target at the Democrats’ presidential debate in Philadelphia last night was front-runner Hillary Clinton . . . more
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February 18, 2008 10:42 AM EST --
The horse race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is now so close it may be decided not by the voters in the primaries and caucuses, but by the Democratic Party's superdelegates.
They are . . . more
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January 16, 2008 11:58 AM EST --
Last night in Michigan, Mitt Romney finally struck gold and John McCain took silver and vowed to soldier on. Now the Republican action moves straight to South Carolina but the race is still a free-for-all. . . . more
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January 07, 2008 10:37 AM EST --
For all the hoopla, noisy debates and even Mike Huckabee's funky bass guitar, there's been one gaping silence in the final push to the primaries in Campaign '08.
America's late-night . . . more
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January 14, 2008 10:45 AM EST --
The New Hampshire primary didn't quite produce a "Dewey Beats Truman" moment. Most of the news media had all but called the race, and called it wrong in the Clinton-Obama match-up.
A . . . more
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July 30, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Last year, Nancy Pelosi broke the marble ceiling when she became the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
There wasn’t much time to rest on her laurels. She had one portrait snapped, . . . more
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August 21, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
2006 was a very big year for Democrats when they took back Congress, spiking the dream of a permanent Republican majority. 2008 could be even bigger for the Dems. The war in Iraq is so unpopular. The White . . . more
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January 15, 2008 10:33 AM EST --
When lily-white Iowa put African-American Barack Obama at the top of the Democrats' Iowa Caucuses, it felt for a moment like a brand new day in this country on race.
In the twelve days . . . more
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November 06, 2007 11:02 AM EST --
As soon as the Christmas-New Year holiday is over, the Iowa caucuses begin, and the floodgates of the American presidential race will burst open. Who knows what will happen then.
But now, of . . . more
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February 06, 2008 10:29 AM EST --
Super Tuesday was a whirlwind of a primary. Clinton and Obama's fierce competition for delegates continues. In New York, Clinton assured voters her road to the White House will not be paved . . . more
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October 11, 2007 10:44 AM EDT --
You'd think Sam Brownback would be just what the Republican Party is looking for in a presidential candidate: farmer’s son, Kansas Senator, down-to-earth appeal, with solidly conservative, evangelically . . . more
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November 08, 2007 10:42 AM EST --
It was Kenny Chesny, Carrie Underwood and more last night at the Country Music Awards in Nashville. And there in the audience, not in the spotlight, was Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson. . . . more
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