Posted on June 26th, 2008 by political buzz
With Hillary and Obama set to woo ex-Clinton donors tonight and participate in their first joint public campaign rally tomorrow, some final details concerning a seamless merger of the Clinton brand into the Obama campaign and clean-up of some final Hillary baggage is underway courtesy of uber-lawyer Robert Barnett. Hillary wants to unify the party […]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by political buzz
Obama’s “Bush state” strategy is real and is set to be implemented in about 14 red states where George W. Bush won in 2004, according to deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand. And the campaign will spend time and money in other states considered even bigger long-shots for Obama; not for electoral votes, but to pull […]
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by political buzz
A stalemate has been reached in the negotiations between the McCain and Obama campaigns over the final debate and town hall schedule featuring the two candidates. The McCain camp has been pushing for as many as ten town hall-style “debates” with no moderators and a generally unscripted format. Of course this plays up JMac’s terrible […]
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by political buzz
Hard to argue against the economy being the big issue at this early stage of the general election fight between McCain and Obama. The home sales report today may have shown a big jump, but Americans are still reeling from mounting foreclosures, 11$-a-day explosions in the price of oil, and a .4% increase in unemployment […]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by political buzz
In what direction does Hillary guide her campaign after another huge victory but at the tail end of a primary race she is doomed to lose? She is now facing gathering calls to quit the race gracefully not only from Dem leaders and the Obama campaign, but from previously neutral uncommitted superdelegates and some of […]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by political buzz
The monumental DNC rules committee meeting tomorrow is all the rage in the media and within the Clinton campaign today. Wolfson, Ickes and other advisers held a conference call at 12 noon (more on that later) with the rundown on what to expect tomorrow and how much the Clinton camp will push to get every […]
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by political buzz
Memorial Day on the trail ushers in solemn remembrances of current and past sacrifice from the candidates…but not a halt to the flow of campaign news and gossip.
The news spotlight has finally found the slow-moving campaign of John McCAin in the past week, focusing some fresh attention on everything from McCain’s health to his […]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by political buzz
How does the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party find himself cast aside and ignored in favor of a greater political news story? When two Dem heavyweights are angrily slugging it our for months on the national stage. And for John McCain, that GOP nominee, his predicament is somewhat bad news.
You see, much of […]
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Posted on March 13th, 2008 by political buzz
The biggest scandal of this week so far - Clinton surrogate Geraldine Ferraro implying that Obama is nothing more than African American hot air and a media creation due to his race - has hit one level of closure with yesterday afternoon;s news that Ferraro has pulled herself out of any involvement with the Clinton […]
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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by political buzz
Surprise of the day was Mitt Romney’s announcement that he was endorsing the presumptive GOP nominee McCain and then his very public, very exuberant press conference for the endorsement. There was no prior indication that this inevitable moment would come today or anytime soon. Reports were out that Romney and his close advisers were still […]
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