Mr Obama faces a challenge to win over all of Senator Clinton's supporters
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has held a joint fund-raising dinner in Washington with his former rival, Hillary Clinton.
The event was aimed at shoring up party unity, following the hardest-fought Democratic Party primaries in decades.
Mr Obama announced that he would personally donate $2,300 (£1,160), the maximum amount allowed by law, to help cover Mrs Clinton's campaign debts.
Clinton Ends Bid and Endorses Obama Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton brought an end to her campaign for the White House with a call to elect Senator Barack Obama. (Video: MSNBC)
Friday 13 June 2008
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Hillary Clinton formally suspended her campaign for the Democratic nomination in a graceful speech in which she urged all her supporters to work hard to ensure the election of Barack Obama as the next president. Her rival promptly posted a big “Thank you Hillary” banner on his website. All looked harmonious, for now. See article
Monday 02 June 2008 Senator Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico Democratic Party presidential primary by on Sunday. She defeated front-runner Senator Barack Obama by slightly over a two-to-one margin in the biggest contest left in the race for the party's presidential nomination. The victory did little to cut into Mr. Obama's lead in the race for elected delegates to the Democratic nominating convention in August, but it could help Mrs. Clinton convince uncommitted delegates to back her presidential bid. US television networks put the turnout at about 10 per cent of voters. Puerto Ricans, who are US citizens but have no representation in Congress, can take part in party contests but do not have the right to vote in November's presidential election. The final two Democratic nominating contests-- Montana and South Dakota--will be held Tuesday Mr. Obama's advisers are confidently predicting he will have the nomination in hand as early as this week. On Saturday, a party committee voted to give each Michigan and Florida delegate a half vote at the national convention. The compromise did no harm to Mr. Obama's near lock on the nomination, but prompted new threats from Mrs. Clinton's campaign to carry the fight to the August convention. Mrs. Clinton's campaign objected to the compromise on Michigan's delegates.
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Clinton wins key Democratic vote
Hillary Clinton: 'You know you can count on me'
Hillary Clinton has beaten rival Barack Obama in a critical vote in the state of Pennsylvania as the two battle to be the Democrats' presidential candidate.
Monday 14 April 2008 Democrat rivals defend abortion
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama say they back abortion rights and profess their Christianity at a faith forum.
Wednesday Apr 9, 2008 Hillary can't win, but the Clinton machine rolls on
Richard Reeve, biographer of U.S. presidents John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, recently wrote that the role of the U.S. president isn't to run the country, it's to lead the nation.
Hillary Clinton halted the momentum built up by Barack Obama over the past month by winning primary elections in Ohio and Rhode Island by double-digit margins and in Texas's primary by rather less. Democrats in Texas held a smaller caucus as well as a primary, which Mr Obama appeared to have won along with a primary in Vermont. With no clear front-runner, the race for the Democratic nomination is back on. The next big contest is in Pennsylvania on April 22nd. See article
Wednesday Mar 5, 2008 Clinton back in it
Hillary Clinton revived her faltering campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination last night...
THE LAST DROP: Super Tuesday was a tough night for Hillary. She has been accused of frequently switching her positions.
To which Bill Clinton said, “I wish.”
Wednesday Feb 6, 2008 Gazette readers choose Clinton
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would be the choice of Montrealers and other Canadians had they... Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would be the choice of Montrealers and other Canadians had they been allowed to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries, an informal Gazette poll reveals.
Tuesday 05 February 2008 Clinton wins New York primary WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in her home state of New York on Tuesday as expected, networks reported. There were 232 pledged delegates at stake in Clinton's home state, the second-highest delegate count after California in the Super Tuesday contests.
Thursday 31 January 2008 Seeing Red Over Hillary
Even newly armored by the spirit of Camelot, Barack Obama is still distressed by the sight of a certain damsel.
Tuesday 22 January 2008 Clinton and Obama clash in debate
US Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama exchange insults in South Carolina.
Monday 21 January 2008 Hilary Clinton and Mitt Romney were victorious in a primary vote to select the U.S. presidential candidates that was held in the State of Nevada on Saturday. Mrs. Clinton beat Barack Obama and John Edwards in the Democratic vote, while Mr. Romney defeated John McCain and Mike Huckabee among the Republicans. Republicans also held a primary in South Carolina, where Mr. McCain was the victor.
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Sunday Jan 20, 2008 Clinton takes Nevada for Democrats
Senator John McCain re-established himself as a favourite in the Republican presidential race last night...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seeking to take the lead on economic
issues, Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton on
Friday proposed a $70 billion emergency spending package to
help victims of the U.S. housing crisis and stave off what she
sees as a coming recession. Full
Article
Thursday 10 January 2008 Clinton’s Message, and Moment, Won the Day At first, the moment seemed like a disaster: The televised images of the teary-eyed exchange Hillary Rodham Clinton had with a New Hampshire voter about the rigors of the campaign caused her advisers to express fears that it would badly undercut her message of strength and experience.
Thursday 10 January 2008
THE STRAIGHT GOODS:
Hillary Clinton’s campaign spins her teary-eyed moment as a defining
one in her New Hampshire victory. A report by Auditor-General Sheila Fraser
detailing concerns about the Chalk River reactor is made public, deepening
the controversy surrounding the threat to fire Canada’s nuclear
watchdog. The International Olympic Committee says that gender
discrimination is not behind their decision not to allow female
ski-jumpers in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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THE CRYING GAME
Did the tears really do it? The big seven are still abuzz over Hillary
Clinton’s surprise win over Barack Obama in the New Hampshire
primary, and none of them can seem to resist prodding whether
Hilary’s show of emotion just before the vote gave her the victory.
Though the Canadian outlets avoid some of the American press’s
sensational excesses, MediaScout wonders if the focus on a weepy moment
might be a way of explaining away rotten polling. La
Presse and CTV News lead, the the
Post and the Star
front, and the
Citizen and the
Globe (subscription required) go inside with attempts to make sense of
the upset, and with Clinton’s spin on her win. Tim Harper, writing
in the Star, talks about “ample evidence” that Clinton’s
show of emotion struck a chord with women, but no one furnishes hard
evidence that it was the deciding factor in swaying votes to her camp. The
Citizen does a good job of reminding us that New Hampshire has bucked the
trend in the past, suggesting that pundits may have been premature in
predicting that Obama really had a lead over Clinton. “The voters
here seem to take particular care to reject the assumptions of the
pundits, and the verdicts of the voters in Iowa. In 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992
and 2000, New Hampshire voters—sometimes Democrats, sometimes
Republicans—flipped their primary on its head by choosing the
candidate rejected in Iowa,” the paper reminds us.
Still, the press can’t seem to shake the allure of that misty-eyed
clip. La Presse devotes two whole pages to the event, going so far as to
call it a “sob.” In reality, Clinton’s voice trembled
slightly as a hint of moisture appeared in the corner of her eye. La
Presse’s Richard Hétu does an excellent job of detailing how the
Clinton campaign went from damage control on the crying story to framing
it as the defining moment in her New Hampshire victory. To some extent, he
illustrates, the narrative that Clinton’s campaign surged on a tear
is now more important than empirical reality. Meanwhile, CTV ran a
retrospective on other notable political blubbers, noting that they
usually spell disaster, but Hillary was able to break the trend with her
special appeal to women voters. Except, that is, for the female voter who
posed the question leading to Hillary’s now famous
response—she voted for Obama.
Senator Hillary Clinton defied the polls yesterday and scored an
unexpected victory over Barack Obama in the New Hampshire
presidential primaries, setting up a month of intense campaigning in
the Democratic race.
Monday 07 January 2008 Clinton Talks About Strains of Campaign PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — In perhaps her most public display of emotion of the presidential campaign, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s eyes welled with tears, and her voice cracked dramatically on Monday, as she talked about holding up under the rigors of the race and her belief that she is the best candidate for the Democratic nomination.
Thursday Jan 3, 2008 Campaign 2008
Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. John Edwards. Mike Huckabee. Mitt Romney. Most of the leading contenders...
Marathon now a foot race
With much-needed momentum and money at stake, the leading contenders for the U.S. presidency scrambled...
2007
Only one star in Winterset, Iowa
In John Wayne's America, the good guys wore the white cowboy hats and the bad guys dressed in black. ...
from Wed1346
So, perhaps like some northern species of Meerkat, we can poke our collective head above the snow - periscopes are acceptable - and look around at events in the rest of the world, especially those leading up to the early caucuses (cauci?), starting with Iowa on Jan 3 and continuing ad nauseum (calendar). There are some fascinating developments that bear watching, including the surge of the Huckabee campaign ( “Just one month ago, Mitt Romney’s supporters thought that they had Iowa fairly well in hand. But there was Mr. Romney last week, telling several hundred people at a high school cafeteria in Marion that he was the underdog and pleading for their help to keep him from being derailed at the caucuses by the rise of Mike Huckabee” more). We confess that Mr. Huckabee sounds like a character that Fred Thompson should be playing in a southwestern soap, but as a candidate, we need to take him seriously). And guess what the chief issue is – immigration! But let’s not go there in an attempt to insert Canadian content.
Then there’s the “stuttering” Hillary Clinton campaign, with Obama and John Edwards hot on her heels in Iowa.
More interesting are the predictions from Chris Weigant on the Huffington Post: ” I think the Democratic race will be closer than expected in the early states, with John Edwards surprising the media by doing much better than predicted in Iowa. But I think the Democrats’ race will essentially be over on February 6th, the day after mega-super-duper-tsunami-Tuesday (when almost half of the state primaries will take place). One candidate will emerge as the frontrunner in a big way, and although they may not formally “win” the nomination until later in the primary schedule, I think at this point Democratic voters will line up behind their apparent nominee.” And on the Republican side ” I predict that two (or even three) GOP candidates come out of February 5th still in competition. This leads to a reversal of the media’s expectations, and suddenly the later states become the big and important primaries. While I won’t go so far as predicting a convention fight, I will predict that the Republicans won’t know who their nominee is until late in the spring. This will have the effect of making the “money race” extremely important, as everyone still in the race will have to come up with a lot of dough in such a long campaign. This will help weaken the eventual GOP candidate for the general election race (since they’ll start the general election with no money in the bank).”
Sunday 23 December 2007 The Clinton Referendum ... The room erupted in cheers
and whistles. Over his head a banner proclaimed: “The Change We Need!
HillaryClinton.com.”
Tuesday 09 October 2007 U.S. politicians wrapped in protectionist flag
Even most Republicans are no longer true believers in free trade
...On the Democratic side, all the leading presidential candidates are already pandering to the sentiment. U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, whose husband when he was president signed the North American free-trade agreement, now says it was a bad deal for American workers.
Sunday 23 September 2007 Clinton Solidifies Edge as Rivals Take a Tougher Line
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s rivals for the Democratic nomination have begun rolling out aggressive new strategies aimed primarily at her. WASHINGTON, — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has consolidated her early lead in the Democratic presidential contest, showing steady strength as the candidates head toward the first voting early next year. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has consolidated her early lead in the Democratic presidential contest, showing steady strength as the candidates head toward the first voting early next year.
She has been challenged for fund-raising supremacy and news media attention by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. Former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina beat her to the punch in introducing big policy proposals. But nothing that her main rivals have done has so far has derailed Mrs. Clinton, leading them to begin rolling out aggressive new strategies aimed primarily at her, including courting black voters in South Carolina and stepping up attacks.
Monday 30 July 2007 Hillary Clinton has still got work to do IT WAS a surreal affair. The first debate among Democratic presidential candidates to be sanctioned by the party’s national committee was co-hosted by CNN and YouTube and let the public submit questions as video-clips.
Make up your own mind. Decide for yourself who should be our next president. NOTE: This is a mashup of the famous Apple 1984 Super Bowl ad. Search for the original on YouTube 04:01 March 05, 2007
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Friday 12 January 2007
U.S. President George W. Bush has cautioned that his decision to send more troops to Iraq would not yield immediate results. In a speech Thursday to soldiers at Fort Benning, Georgia, Mr. Bush appealed for patience. He said the American people have to understand that even with the addition of some 21-thousand troops, which he announced on Wednesday, the suicide bombings in Iraq won't stop immediately. But he said he expects positive results over time. American public opinion has turned against the Iraq war in which more than 3,000 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed. Democrats who control Congress, and even some in Mr. Bush's own Republican Party, oppose his plan to increase troop strength in Iraq.
It is 9 A.M. on a fresh, sunny Saturday in Rockford, Ill., and nearly a thousand people have gathered in the gymnasium at Rock Valley College to participate in a town meeting with their Senator, Hillary Clinton. It is an astonishingly large crowd for a beautiful Saturday morning, but Clinton--whose new book, The Audacity of Hope, is excerpted starting on page 52--has become an American political phenomenon in what seems about a nanosecond, and the folks are giddy with anticipation. "We know he's got the charisma," says Bertha McEwing, who has lived in Rockford for more than 50 years. "We want to know if he's got the brains." Just then there is a ripple through the crowd, then gasps, cheers and applause as Clinton lopes into the gym with a casual, knees-y stride. "Missed ya," he says, moving to the microphone, and he continues greeting people over raucous applause. "Tired of Washington."
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