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December 10, 2007 10:27 AM EST --
Oprah Winfrey hit the trail in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina this past weekend for Barack Obama. In the first-ever election where a woman has a chance of becoming president, Hillary Clinton is . . .
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December 19, 2007 12:23 PM EST --
In 2004 John Edwards was the new kid on the block -- the sunny centrist who charmed a whole lot of Democratic voters.
He can't be new again -- but he's repositioned himself in the '08 race . . .
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April 02, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
A question is haunting Democrats: Will they squander a golden shot at the White House by dividing the party in a tooth and nail Clinton-Obama contest that can seem endless?
A war of words has broken . . .
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January 04, 2008 10:52 AM EST --
This may not be the presidential campaign year many people expected. Iowa said its piece last night. And Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have swept their parties' first election year contests. . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:00 AM EST --
New Hampshire was supposed to be a firewall for the Hillary Clinton campaign -- the primary stronghold where she would anchor her drive for the White House. She led for months in opinion polls but today, . . .
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January 21, 2008 10:54 AM EST --
It was a big weekend for the candidates with evangelicals, labor and Latinos all weighing in. And while Latinos spoke largely with one voice, favoring Hillary three to one, labor struggled to walk . . .
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March 10, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Both Florida and Michigan were stripped of their Democratic delegates when they violated party rules and moved up their primaries.
Now, with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama locked in a tight battle, . . .
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March 19, 2008 10:24 AM EDT --
Barack Obama has worked hard to transcend race on the campaign trail but American and personal history have intervened. Yesterday in Philadelphia, in a speech hailed as historic, Obama squarely addressed . . .
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April 29, 2008 10:36 AM EDT --
Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, went low profile after clips of his fiery sermons hit the news media in March.
But if some Obama supporters hoped Rev. Wright might go away, they . . .
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June 02, 2008 11:03 AM EDT --
The long primary season ends tomorrow for the Democrats. There are just two more states -- South Dakota and Montana, tomorrow -- and that's it for primary voting.
But how the Clinton-Obama . . .
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October 31, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
There were issues aplenty, from Iran to social security to immigration and taxes, but the big target at the Democrats’ presidential debate in Philadelphia last night was front-runner Hillary Clinton . . .
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December 18, 2007 10:42 AM EST --
Eight years ago, Arizona Senator and presidential candidate John McCain had it all: the war-hero biography, the rock-ribbed conservative credentials, and, most of all, the Straight Talk Express that charmed . . .
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June 06, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
There was lightning in the skies of New Hampshire last night, and a crackle in the hall where ten Republican contenders for the White House lined up to debate for the nation on CNN.
Unanimity was not . . .
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January 07, 2008 10:37 AM EST --
For all the hoopla, noisy debates and even Mike Huckabee's funky bass guitar, there's been one gaping silence in the final push to the primaries in Campaign '08.
America's late-night . . .
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February 18, 2008 10:42 AM EST --
The horse race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is now so close it may be decided not by the voters in the primaries and caucuses, but by the Democratic Party's superdelegates.
They are . . .
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May 21, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
In the New Deal era, the Democrats owned the white working class. In the Civil Rights era, they lost them. Not all, of course, but enough to give Republicans win after big win.
Kentucky and Oregon . . .
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July 09, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Right behind the big three Republican presidential candidates in Iowa polls stands a man who ought to fill the bill for GOP conservatives.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is proud to say he’s . . .
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January 16, 2008 11:58 AM EST --
Last night in Michigan, Mitt Romney finally struck gold and John McCain took silver and vowed to soldier on. Now the Republican action moves straight to South Carolina but the race is still a free-for-all. . . .
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April 10, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
States are jamming their primaries forward. Today, On Point looked at the whole-new campaign dynamic and the light-speed presidential election calendar.
On Point spoke to Ron Brownstein, columnist, . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
Here's the reality of the race for the GOP's '08 presidential nomination. Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll but still draws just 13 percent in national polls. McCain is on the ropes. Fred . . .
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