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Front Row: Campaign tips in Obama's favor

With a dwindling number of voter tests left, there are fewer opportunities for Clinton to hold him off. Her odds of success could grow extremely remote unless she wins Ohio and Texas on March 4, and with Obama continuing to broaden his support from ...

From RHONDA STEWART, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  20 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Harold M. Ickes,  John McCain

Front Row: Voters seek change, but experience wins

McCain especially seems to defy all conventional wisdom. He is the old man in a year when voters value youthful vigor. He is the national-security candidate after the 9/11 battle cries have faded. He is the enthusiastic steward of an unpopular war in ...

From RHONDA STEWART, The Swamp,  6 Feb 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bill Clinton,  Rudy Giuliani,  Ron Paul

Front Row: Presidential debate overload?

The conventional wisdom, of course, is that debates are an unalloyed public good. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were seminal moments in the national struggle over slavery; the Kennedy-Nixon debates of 1960 confirmed television’s new role as the ...

From RHONDA STEWART, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  23 Jan 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Dennis Kucinich,  John Edwards,  Mitt Romney

Obama's spiritual mentor

On Sunday morning - amid intensified crossfire between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Obama over the use of race in the Democratic presidential campaign - Wright was preaching from the Gospel of John, using his powerful style to link the story of the ...

From RHONDA STEWART, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  17 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  University of Chicago,  Louis Farrakhan,  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Front Row: Giuliani’s losing strategy

The early results from the 2008 primaries and caucuses have been rolling in, and the verdict is clear: Rudy can't fail. When he launched his presidential campaign in Iowa last spring, Rudolph Giuliani boasted that he would "win the caucus, and surprise ...

From RHONDA STEWART, The Swamp,  16 Jan 2008
Related Topics: New York Yankees,  John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party,  Ron Paul,  Casey Stengel

Advisers urged Clinton to stress toughness

Manchester, N.H--Most campaigns wage in-house wars over whether or not to go negative. Hillary Clinton's campaign was apparently divided over whether she was being too positive. Mark Penn -- whose name is at the top of everyone's heads-will-roll list ...

From RHONDA STEWART, The Swamp,  8 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Mark Penn

Front Row: Is Clinton likable enough to win?

Clinton tried mightily to use experience as the bludgeon to the younger senator's obvious visceral appeal to voters. It didn’t work. So she tried to argue that she is the real change agent. She made that case in an interesting way, saying that she has ...

From RHONDA STEWART, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  7 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John Edwards,  White House

Clinton's Feb. 5 'Giuliani' strategy

NASHUA, NH--It's Hillary and Rudy against the world, strategy-wise. A subdued Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's top strategist, was surrounded by reporters on the red-eye flight from Des Moines to Manchester last night who wanted to know if a Clinton win in ...

From RHONDA STEWART, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  4 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  Mark Penn,  Terry McAuliffe,  Rudy Giuliani

Front Row: Florida looks with envy to Iowa, New Hampshire

Complain though they will about small rural states shaping the presidential primaries, many voters in the big electoral state of Florida are looking to results in Iowa and New Hampshire before committing their support to any one candidate. The burst of ...

From RHONDA STEWART, The Swamp,  3 Jan 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Rudy Giuliani,  White House,  Mike Huckabee

'Diva' Hillary takes aim at Obama

IOWA CITY--After a day of playing nice with Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton took a scalpel to Obama's health care plan last night at a hotel near the University of Iowa campus. BHO's plan, which she claims will leave 15 million uncovered, will ...

From RHONDA STEWART, The Swamp,  2 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

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