By Will Mari, SeattlePoliticore
Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee was in town Thursday, promoting music education for Music Aid Northwest after speaking to a meeting of the Family Research Council.
Between making the rounds on local rock and conservative radio stations, he sat down with Laura Mansfield and I for a wide-ranging interview. […]

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This video is from Talking Points Memo showing Hillary Clinton using the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy to make a point. Hillary Clinton has come out this afternoon and said she regretted what she said in the video, after it created some afternoon media buzz on TV and in the blogs.
Clinton used the assassination of […]

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John McCain’s social conservative base is falling apart. He has a double-pastor problem. All the while, Barack Obama continues to reach out for thier votes. 
It’s no secret that the evangelical voters are an important demographic to the GOP. And McCain has been wooing this group of voters for months. In his effort to court the […]

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It was an encounter of the Huck-kind.
Laura and I had the chance to sit down and do a real face-to-face interview with former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee at 102.5 KZOK Thursday morning. The governor was in town for a meeting Wednesday night of the Family Research Council, a non-profit conservative Christian think tank. He was also […]

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Sen. Barack Obama got stumped while stumping in Oregon this past Monday; as reported in The Tri-City Herald:
Obama spent nearly half of his hour in Pendleton taking questions from the audience.
Just one stumped him.
What was he going to do to address the roller coaster of budget promises for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation […]

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Last night, a few big names chatted about the possible “dream ticket” of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Former White House Chief of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, a Republican, and former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, agreed that Obama’s best chance at winning the White House is with Clinton alongside him.
We’ve mentioned […]

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The day after Hillary Clinton’s win in Kentucky and Barack Obama’s projected win in Oregon, both candidates have traveled to Florida to let Democratic voters know they haven’t been forgotten. Neither candidate has campaigned in the state since it was announced that it would be punished for moving its primary up - a move that […]

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Barack Obama won the Oregon primary tonight. And although it may not be a big surprise, it’s still an important victory. The results of the Kentucky and Oregon primaries have made him the majority leader in pledged delegates. He will now continue his argument with super-delegates, and the results of tonights primaries only solidify his […]

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According to CNN, Hillary Clinton will win today’s Kentucky primary by a wide margin, no doubt bolstering her argument that she has received more votes for the Democratic presidential nomination. With 71% of precincts reporting, the Kentucky numbers stand at 65% of the vote and 22 delegates for Clinton, and 31% of the vote and […]

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On Monday, just days after it issued new rules to address conflicts of interest, the McCain campaign was furiously sifting through the business records of aides and advisers. The new rules were prompted by disclosures that led to the abrupt departure from the campaign of a number of aides who worked as lobbyists, including some […]

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