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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 . . . more
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 . . . more
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 . . . more
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 . . . more
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 . . . more
After Iowa
by On Point Webmaster
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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. . . . more
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, . . . more
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 . . . more
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, . . . more
McCain Rising
by On Point Webmaster
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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 . . . more
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 . . . more
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 . . . more
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 . . . more
March 25, 2008 10:17 AM EDT -- With the country transfixed by the twists and turns of the Clinton-Obama match-up, John McCain has been free to travel the world, making his case for four more years of a Republican – himself – . . . more
May 07, 2008 11:36 AM EDT -- Barack Obama scored a 14 point victory last night in North Carolina. Hillary Clinton won Indiana by about 2 points. This Democratic primary-race is one for the history books, but it's not history . . . more
April 09, 2008 10:50 AM EDT -- By this time next year, one of them will almost certainly be the boss. In yesterday's Senate hearings on Capitol Hill of the U.S. commander in Iraq, all three big presidential candidates went head-to-head . . . more
August 21, 2007 10:36 AM EDT -- 2006 was a very big year for Democrats when they took back Congress, spiking the dream of a permanent Republican majority. 2008 could be even bigger for the Dems. The war in Iraq is so unpopular. The White . . . more
Obama's Candidacy
by On Point Webmaster
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November 06, 2007 11:02 AM EST -- As soon as the Christmas-New Year holiday is over, the Iowa caucuses begin, and the floodgates of the American presidential race will burst open.  Who knows what will happen then. But now, of . . . more
February 04, 2008 10:52 AM EST -- For better or worse, it's been a Baby Boomers' world for so long it's hard for many Americans to imagine it otherwise. In presidential politics, this may be the year to think again. A new . . . more
February 05, 2008 11:14 AM EST -- Super Tuesday is here as voters in 24 states go to the polls. Last night, candidates crisscrossed the country trying to reach every last undecided voter. In Boston, Barack Obama fired up the crowd . . . more
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