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| Candidates Look Ahead to Potomac Primaries |
| Published: February 6, 2008, 2:44 pm |
| Tags: Candidates, Look, Ahead, Potomac, Primaries |
| Republican Sen. John McCain moved closer to facing either of two Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama, in November's presidential election after yesterday's Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, but none of the candidates scored a decisive blow, and the campaigns' focus shi... |
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| Candidates Look Ahead to Potomac Primaries |
| Published: February 6, 2008, 2:44 pm |
| Tags: Candidates, Look, Ahead, Potomac, Primaries |
| Republican Sen. John McCain moved closer to facing either of two Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama, in November's presidential election after yesterday's Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, but none of the candidates scored a decisive blow, and the campaigns' focus shi... |
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| Candidates Look Ahead to Potomac Primaries |
| Published: February 6, 2008, 2:44 pm |
| Tags: Candidates, Look, Ahead, Potomac, Primaries |
| Republican Sen. John McCain moved closer to facing either of two Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama, in November's presidential election after yesterday's Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, but none of the candidates scored a decisive blow, and the campaigns' focus shi... |
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| Sweep Success: Obama, McCain Win Potomac Primaries |
| Published: February 12, 2008, 7:15 pm |
| Tags: Elections 2008, Exclusive, Us News, Democrats, Dems, Gop, Republicans, Primary, Primaries, Caucus, Caucuses, Campaign, Campaigning, Elections, Candidate, President, Presidential, White House, 2008 |
| in Tuesday's big three primaries. PJM political expert Bill Bradley has all the late-breaking news and analysis. Latest -- The Sum of All Fears It's hard to see how it could have gone much better for Barack Obama, or worse for Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, John McCain averted -- after a major exit poll scare -- a major embarrassment in |
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| Around The Campaign 2008 Sphere: Special Potomac Primaries Edition |
| Published: February 13, 2008, 11:17 am |
| Tags: Voting, Internet, Mike Huckabee, Elections, Newsweek Blogitics, Primaries, Washington D C, Maryland, Virginia, Potomac Primaries, John Mccain, Media, Around The Sphere, Conservatives, 2008 Elections, Politics, Internet News Media, Democrats, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton |
| This is a special Potomac Primaries edition of our famous Around The Sphere link-fest: it gives you reaction to weblogs of many different viewpoints on yesterday’s primaries and the political scene. Links and quotes do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of TMV or its co-writers. REACTION TO THE VICTORIES OF DEMOCRAT BARACK OBAMA |
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| Obama Crushes Clinton in Potomac Primaries |
| Published: February 13, 2008, 1:34 am |
| Tags: Barack Obama, Primaries, Hillary Clinton, Texas |
| critical mass. In tonight's primaries he actually pulled in more Women voters than Clinton according to early exit polls...In the Democratic primaries in both states, Barack Obama won both men and women. In Virginia, he got 68 percent of men and 60 percent of women, while in Maryland he got 62 percent of men and 55 percent of women. In Virginia, |
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| America's Democratic Primaries: As Transparent as the Theory of Relativity' |
| Published: February 23, 2008, 3:22 pm |
| Tags: Republican Party, Journalism, Dnc, Democratic Party, Newsweek Blogitics, Primaries, Superdelegates, Potomac Primaries, Brokered Convention, Conventions, Columnists, Germany, Political Cartoons, Europe, 2008 Elections, Politics, Internet News Media, Democrats, Bill Clinton |
| nature of the Democratic primaries. Dieter Degler of Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung writes, ‘Until a few weeks ago, I though myself fairly well-versed in American electoral laws. So what is my current state of knowledge?: The nominating procedure used by Democrats is as transparent as a combination of American football rules |
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| Instead of Primaries, U.S. Would Be Better Off Drawing Straws' |
| Published: February 22, 2008, 2:38 pm |
| Tags: Approval Ratings, Dnc, Ron Paul, Democratic Party, Democracy, Dennis Kucinich, Campaign Reform, Conventions, Superdelegates, Primaries, Newsweek Blogitics, Republican Party, Mike Huckabee, France, Polls, Internet News Media, Political Cartoons, Europe, 2008 Elections, Democ |
| world ? Proponents of the primaries believe that these elections display American democracy at its best. Record participation in these primaries stand in contrast to the usually mediocre participation in the presidential vote. Aren't these primaries an essential part of citizen participation in the political process? Don't they allow the |
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| Poll: Obama Gains In Ohio But Ohio Texas Democratic Primaries Too Close To Call |
| Published: March 3, 2008, 9:48 am |
| Tags: Newsweek Blogitics, Primaries, Ohio, Texas, Approval Ratings, Barack Obama, 2008 Elections, Polls, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Politics |
| Party presidential primaries in Texas and Ohio remain too close to call between Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, with momentum sloshing back and forth, a new Zogby International poll for Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle two-day telephone tracking poll shows. As voters in these two big states prepare to wrap up |
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| Fuggedabout the Primaries. It's Time For The Main Event: That's Obama & McCain |
| Published: March 3, 2008, 6:14 am |
| Tags: Newsweek Blogitics, Primaries, John Mccain, Barack Obama, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Elections |
| you do the math. Some 35 primaries and caucuses and 20 debates later, there also isn’t a whole lot more for Clinton and Obama to say to differentiate the kind of president they assert that they will be. In Clinton's case, that’s a whole lot more of the same things we’ve gotten over the last 16 years. In Obama’s case |
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| Obama’s Troubles Mount — Just in Time for the Latest Primaries! |
| Published: March 4, 2008, 11:35 am |
| Tags: Early And Often, Antoin Rezko, Barack Obama, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Ohio, Primaries |
| just before today’s primaries — his chance to close the deal. He can look inward for answers. The big story, of course, is the meeting an Obama advisor, Austin Goolsbee, had with a Canadian official about NAFTA. After Canadian TV reported that Goolsbee had assured the Canadian official that basically all Obama’s tough talk on |
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| Run Real Primaries in Michigan & Florida |
| Published: March 6, 2008, 3:55 pm |
| Tags: Michigan, Primaries, Florida, Democratic Party |
| simple — rerun these primaries in June giving both Clinton and Obama a full and fair opportunity to campaign for the votes of Floridians and Michiganders. This is the simple and right thing to do. (ed: Thanks to our readers for pointing out the mistake of suggesting Christ would support Hillary. We have no idea who Jesus would |
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| Pennsylvania Primaries Postponed |
| Published: April 2, 2008, 2:29 am |
| Tags: Voting Machines, Pennsylvania Primaries |
| to postpone the Democratic primaries until all volunteers are trained to process paper ballots or all of the machines are repaired whichever happens first."..."All voting machines will be repaired as soon as possible however the cost of retraining volunteers would have to be covered by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party."...Following an |
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| Gergen: Clinton Strategist Mark Penn's Departure Could Influence Clinton Campaign And Primaries |
| Published: April 9, 2008, 3:15 am |
| Tags: Bill Clinton, Newsweek Blogitics, Primaries, Negative Campaigning, Elections, Barack Obama, 2008 Elections, Republicans, Hillary Clinton, Politics |
| influence the rest of the primaries. His predictions: the Clinton campaign may start to focus more promoting Hillary Clinton’s positives and focus less on trying to raise rival Senator Barack Obama’s negatives. And, Gergen says, there have been rumors that the Clinton campaign had some negative material about Obama that it was |
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| Dethroned in Primaries |
| Published: April 13, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Dethroned, Primaries, Bob Smith, Donald Stewart, John Sununu, Joseph Lieberman, Ned Lamont, Sheila Frahm, Alan Dixon, Alfonse D Amato, B Everett Jordan, Bill Gunter, Carol Moseley Braun, Clark S Gruening, Clifford Case, Dale Bumpers, David Gambrell, Howard Metzenbaum |
| Senators defeated in party primaries since 1970: Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) defeated by Ned Lamont (2006). |
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