(Via Politics on The Huffington Post.)
To: Senator Barack Obama
From: Charles Warner
My wife, Julia Bradford, and I have both ardently supported you since the beginning of your campaign when we attended your March, 2007, fundraiser in New York. We are maxed out in our contributions to your primary campaign to become the Democratic Party’s nominee and […]
(Via RealClearPolitics.)
OK, so Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is staying in the presidential race despite losing among elected delegates, facing a slimming lead among superdelegates, losing the popular vote and behind by 2-to-1 in the number of states carried. She slogs on, hoping against hope for a sudden turnaround in the race.
Apart from the psychological […]
(Via Los Angeles Times.)
Barack Obama hasn’t managed after months of political combat to force Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the presidential race, so he’s about to try another approach: ignoring her.
Confident that he has built a near-impregnable lead, his campaign aides said Wednesday that Obama would begin shifting his focus toward the general election.
Obama still […]
(Via CNN.com.)
The drawn out Democratic presidential race is producing “negative dividends in terms of strife within the party,” said a key Senate supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s White House bid.
A day after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries bolstered Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California and a superdelegate, said she wants to talk […]
(Via New York Times.)
Top Democratic officials said privately that Congressional leaders were content to have the race play out as long as it did not take on a negative tone. Attacks on Mr. Obama by the Clinton campaign or its surrogates could lead to a leadership push for superdelegates to show their hand and bring […]
(Via Open Left.)
With 1.5 million donors, this campaign has blown away anything we’ve ever seen in terms of grassroots fundraising. The technology is all centralized, so Obama knows the name, address, giving patterns, and occupation of every donor out there, as well as social networking information, like who the best raisers are. He […]
(Via Newsvine.)
The reaction — or lack of it — by Indiana and North Carolina voters to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary comments emphasizes how deeply entrenched the racial lines of support are for the two Democratic presidential rivals.
It doesn’t seem likely that the renewed focus on Wright has helped Barack Obama, and it is all […]
(Via The New York Times- msnbc.com.)
After 16 years, the Clinton era may be coming to an end, presenting Democrats with a historic but potentially wrenching transition and a challenge to Senator Barack Obama as he seeks to reconcile a deeply divided party.
Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been at the heart of the Democratic Party […]
(Via Salon.)
From watching the coverage of the 2008 race, you’d think that the Democratic Party has never been down this road before — divided along racial lines, mired in a bitter personal battle, seemingly incapable of repairing the divisions in time to defeat the Republicans.
If you believe this, then you probably didn’t experience the 1994 […]
