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Entries Tagged as 'Barack Obama'

McCain’s Double-Pastor Problem & Obama Reaches Out to Social Conservatives

May 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

 
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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Tags: Barack Obama · John McCain

Barack’s Hanford moment

May 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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More talk about the “dream ticket”

May 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat · Hillary Clinton

Clinton and Obama turn attention to Florida

May 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

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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Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat · Florida · Hillary Clinton

Oregon Victory for Obama Tonight

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Barack Obama · Primary

Clinton wins Kentucky

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat · Hillary Clinton · Primary

Barack Black Eagle

May 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The New York Times reported that Senator Barack Obama was officially adopted by the Crow Nation as an honorary member.
As Senator Barack Obama campaigned for the presidential primary in Montana – one of two states that closes out the Democratic nominating process on June 3 – he was welcomed here by a few thousand people. […]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat

Obama/Clinton math still fuzzy

May 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I was flying on Frontier Airlines today, coming back from my conference in Stillwater, Oklahoma, when I decided that watching CNN on the plane was a great idea.
Wolf Blitzer was speaking to a correspondent, whose name I didn’t catch, who said that the Clinton camp is still working strongly under the assumption that they have […]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat · Hillary Clinton

Largest Crowd Yet: OR Obama Rally

May 18th, 2008 · No Comments

“Wow, wow, wow,” said Senator Barack Obama as he stepped on stage to address a crowd of 75,000 at a waterfront park in Portland, Oregon today. I knew he would draw a big crowd in Portland, but this is more than I guessed, and it’s only the primary. This is clearly the movement that Oregon […]

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Tags: Barack Obama · blogosphere news

Obama, McCain & the Foreign Policy “Dust Up”

May 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments

The “appeasement” comments made by President George W. Bush in Knessett Thursday, have generated a foreign policy debate between Senator Obama and Senator McCain today. Obama responded at a Town Hall in South Dakota.
“If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate […]

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Tags: Barack Obama · John McCain