(Via Yahoo! News.)
Hillary Rodham Clinton said emphatically Wednesday night that Barack Obama can win the White House this fall, undercutting her efforts to deny him the Democratic presidential nomination by suggesting he would lead the party to defeat.
“Yes, yes, yes,” she said when pressed about Obama’s electability during a campaign debate six days before the [...]
(Via Reuters.)
Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tried to explain recent controversial remarks during a tense debate on Wednesday, with Obama accusing Clinton of taking political advantage of his characterization of small-town residents.
In their first debate in seven weeks, Obama said he mangled his description of the mood in economically struggling small towns [...]
(Via washingtonpost.com.)
When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates’ debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news — in particular ABC News, which hosted the debate from Philadelphia and whose usually dependable anchors, Charlie Gibson and George [...]
(Via The Swamp.)
Tonight, they will face off.
On the day of the one televised debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, the candidates also are delivering their own televised messages to voters attempting to discern which one of these Democrats really is in touch with their goals for America.
They play off of Obama’s [...]
(Via Marc Ambinder.)
Quoted from comments by Brian on the above article.
The dynamic in this case isn’t really anything to do with Obama, it’s the pundit-driven “outrage” over the outrage the pundits are sure people feel. This exact same situation happened to Clinton before NH (the “tears”). Pundits were so sure that it was going to [...]
(Via TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime.)
But Obama did talk about it, asking supporters to stand by him “if you understand that people really are angry, they really are fed up, some of them are really bitter, because Washington has forgotten them.”
“It’s not me who’s out of touch,” he continued. “It’s folks that think that somehow [...]
(Via msnbc.com.)
Yes, some Democrats in Pennsylvania’s Rust Belt communities were upset by Barack Obama’s suggestion that voters there “cling to guns or religion” because of bitterness about their economic lot. But many more seem to think it was no big deal — and if there’s a problem it’s with the political slapfest that has followed.
Obama’s [...]
(Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.)
Sen. Hillary Clinton has stalled Sen. Barack Obama’s drive in Pennsylvania and holds a 50% to 44% lead among likely primary voters, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.
“There was no noticeable movement in the matchup in polling April 12 - 13, following widespread media reports on Sen. Obama’s ‘bitter’ comments.”
(Via USATODAY.com.)
Phil Little seems like just the sort of Pennsylvanian voter who might have been offended by Sen. Barack Obama’s comments that small-town residents “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion.”
“We believe in God, and I own a couple of guns,” said the retired Little, wearing a camouflage Field & Stream cap and waiting [...]
(Via Political Insider.)
It’s impossible to predict exactly how Sen. Barack Obama’s ill-timed comments about “bitter voters” in Pennsylvania and the Midwest will ultimately play out in the Democratic presidential race. The comments certainly make Obama seem elitist and distant from the daily concerns of stereotypical Midwesterners. And Sen. Hillary Clinton correctly points out that both [...]
