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Saturday, March 15 2008, 03:40 AM Delegate Battles Embroil 2 States Fund-raisers for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton are pressuring Democratic Party leaders to resolve an impasse over delegates from Michigan and Florida. 64 News Stories, 13 Liberal Blogs, 15 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

The Carpetbagger Report Superdelegates, If They Choose To, Can End The Process Shortly after Super Tuesday, DNC Chairman Howard Dean sounded a relatively optimistic note, noting his belief that Dems will have a nominee “sometime in the middle of March or April.” If not, Dean said, he intended to “make some kind of

American Street Obama Wins More Delegates Today By Being Well Organized The next step in the Iowa caucuses upped his total some more: DES MOINES, Iowa - Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up at least seven delegates as Iowa activists took the ne

Daily Kos Obama Picks Up Iowa Delegates, Expands Lead Via Associated Press: DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up at least seven delegates as Iowa activists took the next step in picking delegates

feminist blogs Strike Me Dead: The New York Times Runs A Decent Piece On Feminism And The Election In Postfeminism and Other Fairy Tales, Kate Zernike looks at the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Eliot Spitzer sleazemelt, and asks “where does society stand on gender matters?” PERHAPS it was the “Iron my shirt!” hecklers. Or maybe

The Carpetbagger Report When A President Answers The Phone At 3 A.m. After John McCain and Hillary Clinton both ran campaign ads touting their abilities to answer the White House phone at 3 a.m. and deal with an unknown crisis, it’s become one of the more talked about facets of the campaign. But exactly how often doe

The Carpetbagger Report Iowa Dems Gather, Give Obama Another Delegate Boost After the Iowa caucuses in early January, we saw tallied results that showed Barack Obama picking up 16 delegates. That number, though, was actually a projection of expected results when the Iowa Democratic Party met for its state convention. As it turns

feminist blogs Writers Strike Against Hillary-hating Dailyobama, Aka Dailykos Alegre, a longtime Daily Kos poster, speaks for many of us when she says she's fed up with the vile Hillary-hating site that Daily Kos has become. Alegre's call for a boycott of Daily Kos speaks to the disillusionment many of us on the left feel about

legitgov Clinton Says Obama Voted For Oil Firm Tax Breaks Sen. Hillary Clinton on Friday renewed her attack on oil company profits and accused Sen. Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, of supporting tax breaks for oil companies.

Patterico's Pontifications It?s Time For A Recession [Guest post by DRJ] The problem is, it’s not a real recession. Beldar thinks it’s a lie. Note to Beldar: Right on cue, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announces that much of the country is already in a recession. – D

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Quote Of The Day 'She did not sit in on national security meetings. She did not have a security clearance. She did not attend meetings in the situation room. She conducted no negotiations. She did not manage any part of the national security bureaucracy.' -- Former Clint

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Clinton Entertains Superdelegates 'Having mastered the art of town-hall meetings on the campaign trail,' Sen. Hillary Clinton 'is now holding them in a more comfortable setting: her living room,' according to the Washington Post. 'The real mission of the evening was to court lawmakers --

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Mccain Leads General Election Match Ups A new Zogby poll finds Sen. John McCain has moved ahead of both of his potential Democratic Party rivals in a national general election test. McCain would defeat Sen. Hillary Clinton by six points, 45% to 39%, and Sen. Barack Obama by 5 points, 44% to 39%

feminist blogs I Like Our Candidates, It?s The Jerks In Their Campaigns I Can?t Stand. By Anthony Mccarthy After weeks of reading the high school level invective heaped on Hillary Clinton by people on the leftist blogs, it was a real pleasure to hear Barack Obama?s reaction to the equally foolish gaff by Geraldine Ferraro. In contrast to many of his supporte

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memeorandum For Democrats, Increased Fears Of A Long Fight (new York Times) New York Times: For Democrats, Increased Fears of a Long Fight — WASHINGTON — Lacking a clear route to the selection of a Democratic presidential nominee, the party's uncommitted superdelegates say they are growing increasingly co

PoliPundit.com Delegates Obama's delegate lead grows:Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up at least seven delegates as Iowa activists took the next step in picking delegates to the national conventio

NYT > Magazine The Way We Live Now: What?s The Real Racial Divide? What do Hillary Rodham Clinton?s big-state victories say about race in America?

memeorandum Clinton Campaign Wants Texas To Postpone Party Conventions (paul J. Weber/associated Press) Paul J. Weber / Associated Press: Clinton campaign wants Texas to postpone party conventions — As final results from the Texas Democratic caucus remain unknown, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign wants signatures from the March 4 co

memeorandum Obama Expands Delegate Lead Over Clinton (mike Glover/associated Press) Mike Glover / Associated Press: Obama expands delegate lead over Clinton — DES MOINES, Iowa - Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up at least seven delegate

BrothersJudd Blog Forget 1988, May As Well Go For 1994 While You're At It: Gun control should be a hot topic among U.S. presidential aspirants (Albert R. Hunt, March 16, 2008, Bloomberg News) This Tuesday is a rare one in the United States, without a presidential primary. The political fireworks instead will be at the Supreme Co

Stop The ACLU A Small Obama Miscellany Various Leftists think it is unfair to focus on Obama’s church affiliations. Many of the same people, however, had no hesitation dwelling on Romney’s Mormon affiliations. See here Obama on Wright, before the videos reached Americans: ̶

FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog Barack Obama Channels Robert F. Kennedy Speech After Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination To Distance Himself From Jeremiah Wright http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FsqDTVmlKk Barack Obama reflects on Bobby Kennedy’s MLK speech in Indianapolis on March 15, 2008 Barack Obama in his first campaign speech since his appearance on Cable News networks yesterday evening attempting to

memeorandum Delegate Battles Snarl Democrats In Two States (new York Times) New York Times: Delegate Battles Snarl Democrats in Two States — Democrats in Michigan and Florida struggled Friday to resolve the impasse over their disputed January primaries, coming up with a plan to hold a June primary in Michigan w

Patterico's Pontifications Hillary?s Plan To Win [Guest post by DRJ] No wonder Democratic leaders are discussing ways to resolve the Obama-Clinton race. It may have something to do Hillary Clinton’s recent Q&A with Newsweek (March 17, 2008, issue): “How can you win the nomination when t

BrothersJudd Blog A Plague On Both Their Madhouses: Clinton-Obama War Creates Serious Tensions at DailyKos (Jake Tapper, March 15, 2008, ABC News: Political Punch) This is how ugly things have gotten between supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- Clinton supporters are staging what they call a '

connexions Should Clergy Endorse Political Candidates? Chris Tessone, of Even the Devils Believe, has authored a couple of posts ?the faith of LGBT Christians? (October 30, 2007) and ?In defense of Hillary Clinton, human being? (March 6, 2008) that question the appropriateness of clergy endorsing political ca

The Politicker Elsewhere: Budget, Resignation, Charisma ?We?ve got to to take a realistic look at whether or not that?s actually possible,? said David Paterson today of an on-time budget. Andrew Cuomo says talk of him running for governor in 2010 is ?silly.? Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton nationall

GayPatriot Were Clintons Behind Fundraiser?s Guilty Plea? Upon learning that Hillary Fundraiser Dickie Scruggs pled guilty “to conspiring to bribe a judge for a favorable rulingin a case involving legal fees from a post-Hurricane Katrina lawsuit.” I wondered if the Clinton campaign (perhaps a phone c

memeorandum Writers Strike At Dailykos (alegre/daily Kos) Alegre / Daily Kos: Writers Strike at DailyKos — This is an open letter to the progressive blogosphere... I've been posting at DailyKos for nearly 4 years now and started writing diaries in support of Hillary Clinton back in June