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Clinton Supporters Say ‘Speech Didn’t Heal’
By Eli Saslow WASHINGTON POST - Hillary Rodham Clinton's most loyal delegates came to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night looking for direction. They listened, rapt, to a 20-minute speech that many proclaimed the best she had ever delivered, hoping...
Hillary Clinton supporters still trying to derail Obama nomination
SCRIPPS HOWARD - A massive e-mail and Internet campaign is under way aimed at derailing the nomination of Barack Obama and making Hillary Clinton the party’s standard bearer next week at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. “It&#...
Hillary To Be Entered Into Nomination At Convention
By Aaron Bruns FOX NEWS - Sources within Hillary Clinton’s campaign say the New York Senator’s name is likely to be placed in nomination in Denver — at the insistence of the Obama campaign. Clinton had originally said she would NOT ...
Hillary Clinton’s Name WILL Be Placed in Nomination at Dems Convention
ABC NEWS - A deal has been brokered between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that will allow Clinton's name to be placed in nomination at next week's Democratic nominating convention, sources close to the Clinton camp told ABC News. ...
Does Hillary Have a Surprise For Barack Obama?
NY Sun Editorial Could Senator Clinton win the Democratic presidential nomination at the last minute by taking advantage of buyer's remorse among Democratic super-delegates who are dismayed by the performance of Senator Obama's campaign...
Hillary Clinton advised to portray Obama as foreign
By MIKE ALLEN POLITICO - Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), advised her to portray Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,̶...
Will Hillary Clinton Take The Nomination From Obama At The Last Minute?
By Denis Keohane AMERICAN THINKER - Will Hillary outsmart Obama and take the nomination at the last minute? Many of us familiar with Hillary Clinton's approach to achieving her goals refused to believe that she ever gave up all hope of winning th...
Clinton: “No decisions have been made”
By Alex Koppelman On Friday, as noted in an earlier post, the New York Daily News reported that Hillary Clinton had decided she won't ask to be formally nominated as a candidate at the Democratic convention later this month. But Clinton'...
Hillary Clinton asks not to be nominated at Democratic National Convention
By MICHAEL SAUL and THOMAS M. DeFRANK Petitions abound, but Hillary Clinton won't put in for a nomination, insiders say. Hillary Clinton has decided against being nominated for President at the Democrats' Denver convention, but many of her mo...
Here We Go! Clinton Diehards Want Convention Vote
By Shawn Zeller She may have given up, but a few of Hillary Rodham Clinton ’s people haven’t. The senator from New York is said to be negotiating a respectful presence followed by a graceful exit from next month’s Democratic c...
Hillary Clinton’s demise was no surprise
By J.C. Watts Now that the presidential primaries are over and the race is on, this seems like a good time for a good old-fashioned "I told you so." Sixteen months ago it may have been difficult to predict who would win the Democratic nominat...
Hillary Clinton Will Only Be 69 in 2016
By Phillip Klein Writing from Des Moines on the night of the Iowa caucuses after seeing loser Hillary Clinton address demoralized supporters and Barack Obama electrify thousands of his fans, I confidently declared: "the era of the Clintons is ove...
Hillary Waits for Obama to Stumble
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann Hillary’s suspension of her campaign, and her omission of any release of her delegates, makes her a factor for Obama to consider for the next three months until the Democratic nomination is officially and fina...
What’s next for Bill Clinton?
By Alan Silverleib What a long, strange, unhappy trip it's been for Bill Clinton. When Sen. Hillary Clinton officially launched her drive for the White House 17 months ago, the former president's possibilities seemed endless. His wife's n...
Hillary Clinton’s Denial: She’s Still Here!
By MAUREEN DOWD He thought a little thing like winning would stop her? Oh, Bambi. Whoever said that after denial comes acceptance hadn’t met the Clintons. If Hillary could not have an acceptance speech, she wasn’t going to have acceptanc...
Hillary Clinton faces the final curtain, Carter To Endorse Obama
By Tom Baldwin One by one, members of the Democratic party elite lined up to kill off Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions today. They climbed off the fence where so many of them have stubbornly, even pompously, been sitting for the past 16...
Hillary Refuses To Quit As Superdelegates surge to Obama
By Mike Allen A tsunami of superdelegates is poised to rush to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) over the next 12 hours, giving him a mathematical lock on his party’s presidential nomination. The superdelegate surge is likely to swamp a few holdouts w...
If Obama reaches 2118, Clinton will concede, Says McAuliffe
By Klaus Marre Terry McAuliffe, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (N.Y.) campaign chairman, said Tuesday that he believes that, once Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) reaches the number of delegates necessary to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination...
The Drama of Hillary Clinton
By Roger Simon Oh, the drama of it all. The drama that is the Hillary Clinton campaign. What will she say next? What will she do next? I do not know, but I do know this: There is a huge drama gap between the Clinton campaign and the Barack Obama camp...
Bill & Hillary Clinton Have Officially Lost Their Minds
By John Baer IT IS NOW crystal-clear: The Clintons have jumped the shark, left the building, gone over the edge. And it's time to say buh-bye. Within the last week, Bill said that the media won't report Hillary's "winning," and Hi...
Hillary Clinton Very Unlikely To Win Democratic Nomination
Staunch Clinton campaign supporter Gov. Ed Rendell said Wednesday that his favored candidate is "very unlikely" to capture the Democratic nomination, and said that will mean the Democratic Party will nominate the weaker candidate for the fall...
Source: Hillary’s Speech Writers Preparing Concession Speech
According to this blog, Hillary Clinton is preparing to concede the nomination to Barack Obama. And NO, it's not Drudge. Supposedly, it is a 'mid-level campaign source'. Perhaps the speech is for mid-August? We sha...
Hillary Clinton’s Case To Bend The Rules
By Michael Tackett The next date to remember in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination? May 31. No primary. No caucus. No John King working his wonders with CNN's amazing election board. Rather, that is the day that the Democratic N...
The Trouble With June 1992 as a Case for Pressing On
By JIM RUTENBERG When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton told The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, S.D., last week that efforts to “push” her out of the race before all the nominating contests were over was “unprecedented,” she offere...
Hillary Clinton Does It Again
We have no idea what, exactly, Hillary Clinton was thinking when she referred to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in explaining her decision to keep on campaigning when it looks like there is virtually no hope of her winning the Democratic nominati...
For Hillary Clinton, the bell has surely tolled
By Mark Shields Even some of Hillary Clinton's most devoted supporters now privately concede the inevitability of Barack Obama's winning the Democratic presidential nomination. One hint to understanding the mindset of Clinton and her devoted ...
Talk of Hillary Clinton as No. 2 Grows
By PATRICK HEALY and JEFF ZELENY While Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers insist that she is determined to win the Democratic nomination, friends of the couple say that former President Bill Clinton, for one, has begun privately contempl...
How Hillary’s latest math hurts the party
By Jonathan Alter Give credit where it's due: Hillary Clinton has shown grit and determination in finishing out the race. She has proved herself a strong campaigner. And in the week since West Virginia, she has stopped the cheap shots that had ma...
Hillary Clinton’s Seven Stages Of Grief
For most of last year, Hillary Clinton was the clear favorite to be the Democratic nominee — and very possibly to fulfill what she believed to be her destiny as the first woman to be elected president. So as Barack Obama moves closer and closer...
Hillary Clinton: The Al Gore of 2008
By Byron York There have been four quarters in the Democratic presidential nomination battle. We’re late in the fourth quarter now, and when it’s over, Hillary Clinton will likely have won three of the quarters — and won the most vo...
