(Via Reuters.)
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will accuse his Democratic rivals of making promises they cannot keep with regard to Iraq on Monday in a speech that kicks off a week in which the war returns to center stage of the presidential campaign.
McCain, a senator from Arizona who has wrapped up his party’s White House […]
(Via New York Times.)
Because the last few primary states matter much more than anyone could have anticipated when the Democratic presidential race began many months ago, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama spent the weekend chasing each other across the vast northern expanses of the Great Plains and the Rockies.
So it was instructive to […]
(Via washingtonpost.com.)
When Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker travel to Capitol Hill tomorrow, they might be the ones before the microphones, but the cameras will be trained on three of their inquisitors: Sens. John McCain, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
The hearings before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees […]
(Via washingtonpost.com.)
Mark J. Penn quit Sunday as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief strategist, the second shake-up in her campaign’s top ranks since the onetime front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination began trailing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Penn had been a polarizing figure within the Clinton campaign for months because of his personality as well as his […]
(Via Slate.)
CBS News and the New York Times have released a comprehensive new poll (PDF) chock-full of fresh insights on the state of the race nationwide. Seventy percent of voters say that Barack Obama is the candidate who most resembles American values—more so than Hillary Clinton or John McCain. Obama’s emphasis on what pundits call […]
(Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.)
Is this the start of a drum beat? Following yesterday’s declaration by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) that Sen. Barack Obama has already won the Democratic presidential race, Vermont Public Radio reports that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is calling on Sen. Hillary Clinton to drop out.
Said Leahy: “There is no way that […]
