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Articles Written by: BEN SMITH AVI ZENILMAN
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets the crowd during a rally in Springfield, Mo. Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008.
Since Barack Obama gave a dramatic speech on the subject of race this spring, the issue has lingered over the ...
From AVI ZENILMAN,BEN SMITH,
The Politico,
2 Nov 2008
While the two campaigns Tuesday accused one another of trying to steal or suppress votes, experts in election administration are focusing on the old standbys: Faulty machines, questionable voter lists, last-minute litigation.
The likely trouble spots, ...
From AVI ZENILMAN,BEN SMITH,
The Politico,
15 Oct 2008
With the crisis already deep, the two candidates dont differ greatly in their short-term approaches.
As Wall Street closed nearly 500 points down and seemed on the verge of sliding into the New York Harbor Monday afternoon, the campaigns of Sens. ...
From AVI ZENILMAN,BEN SMITH,
The Politico,
15 Sep 2008
Four years ago in Boston, Barack Obama set himself on a course to the White House with a keynote speech that introduced him to America and wowed Democrats with his rhetorical talents. His goal then was to show that he was an extraordinary political ...
From AVI ZENILMAN,BEN SMITH,
The Politico,
25 Aug 2008
affair with practical goals. Here are five.
weeks has given some hints as to how he will do that. His message to women, in particular, has focused on pay and support for working mothers far more than on the traditional Democratic appeal to abortion ...
From AVI ZENILMAN AND BEN SMITH,
Denver Post,
25 Aug 2008
A staffer close to the Clinton campaign said the candidate took Rangel's response to heart.
In the end, the same man who ushered Hillary Clinton into electoral politics nine years ago pushed her out.
Wednesday, Clinton was asking supporters to wait – ...
From AMIE PARNES,AVI ZENILMAN,BEN SMITH,
The Politico,
5 Jun 2008
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had just declared victory in the Nevada caucuses when most campaign reporters heard Jeffrey Berman’s voice for the first and only time.
Berman, Sen. Barack Obama’s director of delegate selection, chimed in during a ...
From AVI ZENILMAN,BEN SMITH,
The Politico,
11 May 2008
Obama Corrects 'Obama bin Laden' Slip Associated Press director William Dean Singleton, who serves as the publisher of Denver Post, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Detroit News and is one of about twenty newspaper owners that run the wire service, asked ...
From AVI ZENILMAN,BEN SMITH,
The Politico,
14 Apr 2008
also hallmark is rifeling through black church sermons to get the hot juicy materials for the NASCAR boatings...
think of the phone bills this woman will be racking up in the whites houses now that the obambi has been disqualified because of the racial ...
From BEN SMITH,AVI ZENILMAN,
The Politico,
15 Mar 2008
Landslide victories lead Barack Obama supporters to crown him with sense of inevitability.
Who’s inevitable now?
With three landslide victories in Tuesday’s “Chesapeake Primary” in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., and a widening lead by any ...
From BEN SMITH,AVI ZENILMAN,KENNETH P. VOGEL,
The Politico,
12 Feb 2008