Tag: barack obama
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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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March 18, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
For the past two decades Barack Obama has attended Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side. Now, in the white heat of a presidential campaign, the pastor of his black church, . . .
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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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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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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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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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April 23, 2008 10:35 AM EDT --
It ain't over -- again. Hillary Clinton pulls out a win in Pennsylvania and sends Barack Obama and superdelegates a double-digit message: Don't count me out.
The political brawl now heads . . .
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February 27, 2008 10:30 AM EST --
Last night in Cleveland, Ohio, the Democrats held their 20th primary debate, the third head-to-head for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Voting next Tuesday could decide the contest.
Clinton, . . .
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January 15, 2008 10:33 AM EST --
When lily-white Iowa put African-American Barack Obama at the top of the Democrats' Iowa Caucuses, it felt for a moment like a brand new day in this country on race.
In the twelve days . . .
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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 . . .
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February 06, 2008 10:29 AM EST --
Super Tuesday was a whirlwind of a primary. Clinton and Obama's fierce competition for delegates continues. In New York, Clinton assured voters her road to the White House will not be paved . . .
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June 16, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
Dick Cheney headed up George Bush's VP search committee and then got the job. He has wielded a very big stick in his seven plus years and redefined the office.
Now, Barack Obama and John McCain . . .
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July 22, 2008 10:20 AM EDT --
Senator Obama's message to the American voter is clear: He’s out on the hustings, and the hustings include the world. Right now, he's in that tough patch of the world from Israel to Pakistan . . .
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March 05, 2008 10:27 AM EST --
It's not over for Hillary Clinton. Last night, she won the primaries in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island, and says that she's back. But Barack Obama, still ahead with more delegates, is not . . .
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