Romney tops McCain veep list(2)
Surprising many Republican insiders, Mitt Romney is at the top of the vice-presidential prospect list for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). But lack of personal chemistry could derail the pick.
Link:Politico.com
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Bill and Hillary max out to Obama, giving $4,600 to his campaign(0)
Hillary spokesperson Mo Elleithee confirms to me that Bill and Hillary Clinton have now maxed out to Obama, donating $4600 to his campaign today.
It’s a strong signal to the Clinton fundraising elite and donor base that the time has come to open the wallets for Obama. It comes a day after the Obamas similarly maxed [...]
Why Bill Clinton’s miffed at Obama(0)
But Bill Clinton has a beef. A Democrat who has spoken directly to Clinton about his feelings said that the former president remains “miffed” for two reasons. One is that he feels that Obama’s candidacy was essentially an anti-Clinton candidacy; that Obama ran against Clinton’s presidential record at times, implying that it was timeworn, divisive, [...]
Clinton to concede delegate race when Obama clinches(0)
Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation’s first female president.
Link:Yahoo! News
Kennedys Outraged!(0)
“That comment may be the last nail in her campaign’s coffin,” a Kennedy relative told The Post. “How can Hillary even use the experience argument when she repeatedly pushes the wrong buttons in her comments?”
An insider added, “I think people really felt that a line was crossed and that her campaign - and even her [...]
McCain misses 60% of Senate votes, more than any other Senator(0)
Through last week, McCain had missed a nice, round 60.0 percent of Senate votes so far in the 110th Congress. After Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), who was absent for several months following a brain hemorrhage, comes Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who lay well behind McCain with 41.8 percent of votes missed. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), [...]
Clinton Kennedy assassination reference: Brings up Bobby’s death in saying why she stays in the race(0)
Hillary Clinton’s argument for staying in the race took a disturbing turn today. While meeting with the editorial board of South Dakota’s Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, she raised the specter of Obama’s assassination as a reason to stay in the race
The issue of assassination has been a sensitive one this election. Black voters have repeatedly expressed [...]
Clinton says reports of veep negotiations untrue(0)
Asked if her campaign had any discussions with the Obama campaign about her possibly bowing out in exchange for the vice president slot, Clinton said: “It is flatly untrue and it is not anything I’m entertaining. It is nothing I have planned and it is nothing I am prepared to engage in. I am still [...]
Justice Hillary Clinton?(0)
As Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign comes to a close, the chattering class is already speculating about what’s next for her. Much of the buzz, of course, focuses on the pros and cons of becoming Barack Obama’s running mate. But another long-shot possibility is beginning to get some ink: an appointment to the Supreme Court.
“I [...]
Senior Obama adviser: Clintonites ‘pushing real, real hard to get her on ticket’.(0)
“You don’t want your vice president taking away anything from the ticket, and she does,” said the adviser, who asked not to be named because he was expressing his personal views and not the official view of the campaign.
The adviser cited two things against Clinton: the number of voters who consider Clinton “dishonest” and the [...]
Buying elections?:Superdelegates turned down $1 million offer from Clinton donor(0)
One of Sen. Hillary Clintons top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organizations two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse the New York Democrat, a high-ranking official with YDA told The Huffington Post.
Link:The Huffington Post
Florida, Michigan delegates cannot save Clinton(0)
Sorry, Sen. Clinton. Michigan and Florida can’t save your campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states’ banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady’s best-case scenario.
Her position, part of a formidable comeback challenge, is that all the delegates be seated in accordance with their disputed primaries.
And even if [...]
Hillary hints she’s set to pull the plug?(0)
“Thank you for caring so much about our country,” Clinton said in a video sent yesterday to supporters. “And now it’s on to West Virginia and Kentucky and Oregon, and we’ll stay in touch.”
Not mentioned in her apparent video swan song are the final three primaries, in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota, to be [...]
Edwards raises doubts about Clinton’s chances(0)
John Edwards, a former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, cautioned Sunday that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton “has to be really careful that she’s not damaging our prospects” by staying in the contest against Senator Barack Obama.
Link:New York Times
Clinton: Obama not winning over “hard-working americans, white americans”(0)
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were [...]
