AP News reports that the Clinton campaign is set to announce on Monday that yet another Senator is backing Hillary Clinton in her presidential bid — Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington.
“Hillary is ready to address our energy challenges on day one with a bold, comprehensive plan to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and move [...]
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We’re down to the wire now, as the Iowa caucus is just a few short days away and the pollsters are reverberating off the charts with a wide variety of results. The latest McClatchy-MSNBC Poll is here to your left. It gives John Edwards a bit of the edge in the Democratic field, as he [...]
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Hat Tip to Joe Biden’s site:
Dec. 29: This week on CNN’s News Hour With Jim Lehrer, host Judy Woodruff asked David Brooks of The New York Times, and syndicated columnist Mark Shields, to comment on Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Joe Biden’s remarks on Pakistan.
Here is a quick 50-sec. video clip of the broadcast, with [...]
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There was a time that I lumped Mitt Romney in with the also rans in the Republican Primary, because I thought that he shot himself in the foot with his “I am my own Mormon” speech. It seems to me that it was no coincidence that Huckabee started to surge right around the same time.
Now [...]
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He may have been Bill Clinton’s opponent back in ‘92 and not always seen things eye to eye with him, but that didn’t stop Bob Kerrey from jumping in to “enthusiastically and unequivocally” endorse Hillary Clinton on Sunday.
Just one day after the Des Moines Register announced their endorsement of Clinton, Kerrey said that “Mrs. Clinton “inspires [...]
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Politics wouldn’t be nearly as enjoyable if there were less room for surprises. Few, I believe, could honestly deny that they had written the tired old warhawk off before now. Knocking down major endorsements in the first two big races, however, will certainly put a new found spring in his step.
The Boston Globe’s editorial board [...]
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Hillary Clinton has won the coveted Des Moines Register endorsement, and that endorsement could just give her lagging campaign there in a Iowa a big boost. Citing Clinton’s experience over Obama’s lack of, the Register says:
The job requires a president who not only understands the changes needed to move the country forward but also possesses the [...]
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I’ve got work for the next three nights, so I may not be functioning at peak blogging mode for a few days. But, since my job involves music and in light of the fact that Ike Turner (he formerly of Ike & Tina Turner) has passed away I’m offering this video in his honor: River [...]
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Earlier I posted Wes Clark’s new Hillary Clinton ad for Iowa. Now it’s time to take a peek at Barack Obama’s new Iowa ad: “Our Moment Is Now’:
As Greg Sargent notes on TPM Election Central:
The ad never mentions Hillary, but it features footage of him again making the case here that she is too encumbered [...]
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The Clinton campaign released a new ad in Iowa on Wednesday featuring Wes Clark. The Clinton camp notes in the ad, “General Clark dismisses the recent attacks against Hillary Clinton as “politics” and says he trusts her to deal with the many challenges that America faces around the world.”
“I’ve known Hillary Clinton for twenty-four years. [...]
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Time for a little distraction from the front-runner slugfest happening in the media and blogosphere. The Clinton and Obama campaigns are slugging it out and they may want to watch their backs for these guys…
The IAFF worked wonders for the Kerry campaign in ‘04. Members of the union are on the road in Iowa now on [...]
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Senator Clinton gave a speech today in Clear Lake, Iowa that directly addressed the attacks she been getting directly or through surrogates from Barrack Obama and John Edwards. It’s a telling speech and one that may show the forthrightness that will be necessary to win the 2008 general election and govern thereafter. The full transcript [...]
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