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Tuesday, January 22 2008, 04:54 PM Clinton, Obama Keep Sparring After Debate Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama continued a back-and-forth over their records and tactics one day after a debate that saw the two hopefuls level harsh criticisms at one another. 112 News Stories, 27 Liberal Blogs, 23 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

The Carpetbagger Report Mitt Romney And The Eddie Haskell Phenomenon A couple of days before the Republicans’ New Hampshire primary, ABC hosted a debate for the GOP field, during which every candidate on the stage attacked Mitt Romney. Huckabee hit him on Iraq, Thompson hit him on healthcare, Giuliani hit him on immi

MyDD Clinton Scores Major California Endorsement Coming on the heels of a Field Poll (.pdf) showing Hillary Clinton leading in California by 12 points, effectively unchanged from her 14-point lead in the poll in December, the Clinton campaign is able to boast a major endorsement: the United Farmworkers.

feminist blogs Hillary And Obama Trade Blows At South Carolina Debate (video) Hillary and Obama traded blows and cleared the air last night at the South Carolina Democratic Debate, and I don't know about you, but I feel better because of it. I'm sorry, I know the media is calling it a 'nasty' debate, but I thought they both perform

feminist blogs Chelsea Clinton & America Ferrera In Nevada (video) Hillary Clinton News Democratic Politics

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Democratic Race Tightens, Gop Contest Up For Grabs A new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg national poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton leading the Democratic presidential race with 42%, followed by Sen. Barack Obama at 33% and John Edwards at 11%. Just last month, Clinton had a 24 point lead which has now dwindled

feminist blogs U.s. More Ready For A Black Prez Than A Woman Prez Not surprising, but interesting in this historic presidential campaign is that in the year 2008, only '72% of whites and 61% of blacks believe the country is ready for a black president.'And a woman president? Only '63% of both whites and blacks' believe

feminist blogs Hillary V. Obama: War Of The Radio Ads Hillary Clinton's South Carolina Radio Advia Taylor MarshIn response, Obama is broadcasting an ad that calls Hillary a liar -- an ad harsh enough to be picked up by the GOP in the general election. My, how Saint Obama has fallen. Can't find the audio yet,

feminist blogs Having An Impact Eric Boehlert discusses the impact liberal and feminist blogs had on making Chris Matthew's sexism known. He even suggests:When Chris Matthews' long-winded monologue at the opening of the January 17 Hardball program eventually touched down with an apolog

feminist blogs Obama: Think You?re Getting My Voters, Hillary? In an interview with David Brody over at Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Barack Obama said:'I have no doubt that once the nomination contest is over, I will get the people who voted for her. Now the question is can she get the people

feminist blogs Obama Was For Single Payer Before He Was Against It (video) Associated Press: 'I think it?s very clear that Senator Clinton? and the president have been spending the last month attacking me in ways that are not accurate . . . The necessary part of this campaign is to make sure that we?re getting accurate informati

The Carpetbagger Report Wondering If Republicans Are ?gonna Need A Bigger Boat? I suppose it’s only natural for partisans in a presidential campaign to look across the aisle and wonder, “Which one of our candidates would the other side least like to face?” It’s hardly a foolproof way of looking at a race ̵

Daily Kos Midday Open Thread Barack Obama has an op-ed in a Kenyan newspaper: I have been deeply troubled by the recent events in Kenya. The ongoing political impasse and the tragic violence pose an urgent and dangerous threat to Kenyans, Kenyan democracy, and stability and economic

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Quote Of The Day 'How do we get along? We can?t stand each other.' -- John Edwards, on the Late Show with David Letterman, when asked if the three leading Democratic presidential candidates get along with each other.

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Mccain, Clinton Way Ahead In Arizona Sen. John McCain and Sen. Hillary Clinton 'hold double-digit leads among the state?s most reliable voters heading into Arizona?s presidential preference election,' according to an Arizona State University/KAET-TV poll. Among Republicans, McCain leads wit

Civil Commotion Lousy Headline Of The Day The Associated Press embarrasses itself with this clunker:Obama criticizes Clinton's candorDamn ... Obama is going around criticizing Hillary Clinton, of all people, for being too frank and honest? Mercifully, our public life hasn't descended to that �

feminist blogs Not Really Liking Hillary Right Now The media are spinning this as mutual attacks, but what I see is Barack Obama taking issue with the Clintons' attacks. Take what you want from that. It's a debate, and of course the frontrunners are going to challenge each other. I don't care for Bill

The Carpetbagger Report The ?ingredients Of A Typical Gop Campaign? In an interesting piece for The American Prospect, Paul Waldman argues that Barack Obama’s presidential campaign prepared for a lot of possibilities, but “there’s one thing it doesn’t seem they prepared for: Their main opponent, Hi

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Clinton Pushes Obama's Ties To Rezko For the second day in a row, Sen. Hillary Clinton 'has prodded chief rival Sen. Barack Obama about his relationship with a former career political patron and friend, Tony Rezko, who is facing a Feb. 25 federal criminal trial in Chicago on public corruptio

The Carpetbagger Report Is The Clinton Restoration Back On? This item from The Onion is obviously a parody, but as Homer Simpson once said, “It’s funny ’cause it’s true.” After spending two months accompanying his wife, Hillary, on the campaign trail, former president Bill Clinton ann

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire What They Talked About We previously noted a private meeting between Sen. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards after Monday night's Democratic debate and wondered what they talked about. A source who attended a fundraiser this week for Edwards tells the New York Observer: 'He said

Daily Kos Clinton Leads Obama By 12 In California In California, a state that’s shaping up to be nearly make or break for Obama come Feb. 5, he’s still trailing Clinton by double digits, according to the Field Poll (PDF). released today: 1/14-20. Likely voters. MoE 5/2%. (December 2007) Cl

Daily Kos Dodd Will Filibuster Tim Tagaris has Senator Dodd's statement on continuing his FISA filibuster: 'Few things are more detrimental to this country than the erosion of and attack on the civil liberties we enjoy. This isn't a Democratic issue or a Republican issue; this is an

Easter Lemming Liberal News Choosing The Most Electable Candidate It isn't Clinton or Obama. I am surprised that Republicans have been ignoring their radio leaders and rallying to McCain who actually is the most electable candidate on their side. Meanwhile Edwards is ignored by the media, the two leading Dem candidate

Brendan Nyhan Worrying Too Much About Debates Based on his performance in last night's slugfest (which I skipped but caught up on this morning), Josh Marshall worries about Barack Obama's ability to defend himself in the general election: One observation stands out to me from this debate. Hillary ca

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Extra Bonus Quote Of The Day 'I kinda like seeing Barack and Hillary fight.' -- Bill Clinton, quoted by ABC News, who 'non-chalantly admitted' to a crowd his view of last night's debate.

AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now! Democracy Takes A Hit On The Campaign Trail By Roshi Pejhan, The Women's International Perspective Harold Bloom?s summation of ?the poor state of the nation? in Eva Solhman?s article last week shone a light on the ailing political health of the United States. The validity of his concern over the st

Wonkette Make Obama 'shoot' Hillary With 'paint Balls' [our Dumb Democracy] Matt Drudge is super excited about this dumb web-video game. “Online shooting game lets kids target presidential candidates,” he typed on Drudge Report today. Tragically, it’s just “virtual paintball” — an even dumber

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BrothersJudd Blog Jury Of His Peers: Romney Leads in Ill Will Among G.O.P. Candidates (MICHAEL LUO, 1/23/08, NY Times) With so much attention recently on the sniping between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama on the Democratic side, the almost visceral scorn directed at Mr. Rom

Outside The Beltway | OTB Everybody Hates Mitt While the Republican field is doing a reasonably good job of adhering to Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, they’re all willing to make an exception for Mitt Romney, Michael Luo reports for the NYT. With so much attention recently on the snip

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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run The Presidential Candidate Ranking Game -- Who Is Worse? While sharing cocktails with some delightful Reasonoids at the Happy Hour at The Big Hunt earlier this month, I initiated a little game of ranking presidential candidates. I began by saying that I would have to vote for Hillary Clinton if Mike Huckabee we

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The Politicker Rendell Endorses Hillary, But Not Negative Campaigning PHILADELPHIA --During a short press conference at an event at Philadelphia?s City Hall where Hillary Clinton received the endorsement of Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell, a reporter asked if the governor approved of the aggressive campaigning Bill Cli

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Ace of Spades HQ And Sell Ambition At The Common Mart The Washington Post has noticed that as President Bush and Congressional Democrats try agree on an economic stimulus package, the Democratic presidential candidates are on the attack. The stock market jitters have caused the president and congressional le

BrothersJudd Blog It's A Front Porch Campaign, Just Your Own Porch: Presidential Candidates Audio & Video Resource (Learn Out Loud) Listen to and watch audio & video of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidates. Featuring podcasts, speeches, debates, interviews, and more from the major Democratic and Republican candidates run

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Wizbang Bill Clinton's Outbursts Are Part Of The Clinton Strategy It's not that Bill is out of control and won't shut up; rather, his being out there spouting off is part of the Clintons' strategy, according to Ben Smith at The Politico. Even though Kennedy and Emanuel have told him to shut up, don't expect him to go a

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Stop The ACLU Poor Reality Contact Among Leftists There is a post here which shows that everybody (both GOP and Donk voters) rightly sees the GOP presidential candidates as being on the conservative side of American politics but Democrat voters see their candidates as centrist. Once again we see a relian