Posted in Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Gravel, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
ABC News and WMUR-TV have set the line-ups for Saturday night’s back-to-back debates. Only four of the six Democrats in the race will be on stage, and only six of the seven Republicans, because of a qualifier which has been challenged by both Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley and Republican Fergus Cullen as unfair and [...]
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Mitt Romney kicks the weekend off with an early mornming rally at Portsmouth airport. And we do mean early. Romney is touching down from Iowa at 1:30 a.m. (RSVP required, for that event). Also Friday, the New Hampshire Peace Action and the American Friends Service Committee take their anti-war campaign on the road — on [...]
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The candidates were quick to issue statements or make comments at campaign events yesterday following the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The Associated Press reported that the Pakistani opposition leader’s death has pushed terrorism to the forefront in many voters’ minds, which could help candidates like Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton who [...]
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College Democrats of New Hampshire have spoken, and while they can’t agree on everything, they’ve agreed that Sen. Hillary Clinton is not the best choice for president. Six members of the group’s executive board announced their endorsements for the Jan. 8 primary over the weekend. Two were for Sen. Barack Obama, two were for Gov. [...]
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Filmmaker Ken Burns endorsed Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, although that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll see a camera slowly panning over photographs of the Illinois senator while Keith David speaks slowly about the man’s past. Burns, of Walpole, Mass., said he decided to endorse Obama because of recent “slash-and-burn character attacks,” although he didn’t identify exactly [...]
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Bill Shaheen resigned today as national co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to the Associated Press. Shaheen, the husband of former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, had come under fire for comments he made earlier in the week about Barack Obama’s teenage drug use. Shaheen reportedly raised the issue of Obama’s drug use during [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Barack Obama, who is rapidly gaining ground on Hillary Clinton among New Hampshire voters, received the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter today, according to the Associated Press. The first-term congresswoman from the Granite State had repeatedly pledged that she would not pick a candidate, but decided to go with Obama. “I said I would [...]
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Sen. Hillary Clinton‘s campaign sent out a request this week to supporters to let the campaign know if they are harrassed for being a supporter by Barack Obama‘s campaign. In Iowa, Clinton supporters are getting phone calls notifying them of incorrect caucus locations. Supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire also are getting a different kind [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama on Dec 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Want to see Oprah? Want to see Obama? Want to see them at the same time? Well, you might be too late. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign announced this morning that Sunday’s rally with Oprah Winfrey in Manchester is at capacity — only a day after ticket information for the event was announced. Those interested can [...]
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When Hillary attacks … Barack Obama supporters will write about it on the Internet. The Obama campaign announced today a new Web site — hillaryattacks.barackobama.com — designed to identify attacks on the Illinois senator by Hillary Clinton. “The (latest Des Moines Register) poll … showed that by a wide margin, Iowans believe that Sen. Clinton [...]
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