(Via msnbc.com.)
During a speech on human trafficking and human rights at Oakland University this morning McCain vowed to create an “Inter-Agency Task Force on Human Trafficking” that would be focused “exclusively on the prosecution of human traffickers and the rescue of their victims.”
“I will require the Task Force agencies to report directly to me on [...]
(Via msnbc.com.)
Hillary Clinton wasted little time reaffirming her intention to see the Democratic contest through, telling reporters that she is “staying in this race until there’s a nominee.”
“And I obviously am going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee,” she said. “That is what I’ve done; that’s what I’m continuing to [...]
By way of demonstrating the impossibility of Hillary Clinton winning the Democratic nomination, here’s a scenario for the remaining contests.
West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon: We’ll put Clinton in the win column 70/30.
Montana, South Dakota: We’ll project Clinton 52/48.
Puerto Rico: We’ll write in Clinton for a 60/40 win.
Superdelegates: Clinton picks up 64% of all remaining.
End Totals:
Clinton, 1993
Obama, [...]
(Via The American Prospect.)
Barack Obama coupled a solid, double-digit win in North Carolina with a narrow defeat in Indiana to stall the momentum Hillary Clinton showed in the 11 weeks since Obama’s last significant win. “We now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be,” NBC’s Tim Russert declared shortly after midnight, as the [...]
(Via AmericaBlog.)
On MSNBC, Clinton spokesperson Howard Wolfson confirmed this loan and added, “I certainly don’t rule out her giving more.” No wonder Hillary said to Bill O’Reilly, “Rich people. God bless us.”
AP just reported, via MSNBC, that Hillary Clinton loaned her campaign $6.4 million last month.
Last night, we wrote about the possibility of another loan [...]
(Via Firedoglake.)
No matter what happens next, this is exactly what Obama needed to say. The media spent weeks implying, but pretending not to say, that as a black man, Obama may not love his country, sympathizes with violence, is not patriotic and does not understand or relate to ordinary Americans’ concerns and hopes. No credible [...]
(Via Newsvine.)
This was the Obama campaign’s opportunity to fall apart. As the media encroached upon his candidacy, savaging it with news cycle after news cycle of Wright’s hateful comments and questions of how it would affect the campaign, They hounded Obama into giving a second speech by Thursday of last week, finally cutting Wright loose [...]
(Via Political Wire.)
Political Wire has learned that Sen. Hillary Clinton is returning to Washington, D.C. today to meet with advisers and discuss the future of her campaign.
(Via New York Times.)
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is bracing for one of the most difficult days of her presidential race on Wednesday, anticipating new pressure to quit the race and facing a set of financial and logistical decisions that will determine just how robust a campaign she can continue to wage against Sen. Barack Obama, [...]
(Via CNN.com.)
Barack Obama edged closer to securing the Democratic nomination in the U.S. presidential election early Wednesday after claiming a decisive victory in North Carolina as his rival Hillary Clinton narrowly took Indiana, vowing to keep her campaign alive.
The latest round in the drawn-out contest to select a challenger to George W. Bush’s likely Republican [...]
