Tagged as Elitist, Obama Shifts Campaign From High-Flown to Folksy

(Via New York Times.)
With sleeves rolled up and folksy on his mind, Barack Obama stepped into the Evansville Labor Temple — a highbrow name for a barlike haunt where the walls are adorned with photos of Nascar drivers, basketball schedules and a poster celebrating the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition. Mr. Obama slapped [...]

Clinton’s Fate Hangs In The Balance

(Via CBS News.)
If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins in either Indiana or North Carolina Tuesday, the primary election terrain suddenly begins to look more favorable to her than at any other point since Super Tuesday Feb. 5.
For the first time since February, she will enter a month-long stretch of states where a variety of factors leave [...]

Clinton, Obama Go for KO, but Expect Split Decision

(Via ABC News.)
“Today is likely to be Groundhog Day. It’s most likely to be six more weeks [of campaigning] because we’re going to see a split,” said ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America”.
Stephanopoulos told “GMA” Tuesday that Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., tried to downplay expectations.
Obama’s supporters suggested to Stephanopoulos [...]

The endless Democratic party

(Via Salon News.)
Barack Obama liked the speech so much that he gave it twice at high-profile events in Indianapolis over the weekend. Following Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean on stage Sunday night at the Indiana Democratic Party’s fundraising gala, Obama repeated (at times word-for-word) the new campaign speech that he unveiled here Saturday morning. Some [...]

Where the Nomination Campaign Stands

(Via Open Left.)
The Obama campaign has started to keep a running count of superdelegates on its results page. While it does not provide a list of the superdelegate endorsements, the total is still a useful public service. Also, I can understand why they wouldn’t want to list the individual superdelegates, given that any errors could [...]

Voter Registration Surges in North Carolina

(Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.)
“More than four times as many blacks have
registered to vote in North Carolina during the first few months of
2008 as four years ago, a sign that bodes well for Sen. Barack Obama in
the state’s May 6 Democratic presidential primary,” the Associated Press reports.
“There
has also been a boom in voter registrations [...]

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