Category — 2008 Presidential Campaign

Time Magazine piece by Amy Sullivan (Thursday, June 5th), Why Didn’t More Women Vote for Hillary Clinton? disputes the conventional wisdom, which has been that Hillary as Veep will bring Obama the women voters who rejected him in the primary season. They did not reject him. Indeed, women under 40 embraced him, women over 60 went for Hillary, and and he and Hillary broke even with women voters in between, and women voters overall. So, scratch one more reason for Obama to consider taking Billary as his VP.

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On a quiet Saturday afternoon in the early summertime, with a heat wave scorching the District, Hillary Clinton today at last, begrudgingly, accepted reality. She ended her campaign… well actually she suspended her campaign, and formally endorsed Barack Obama and urged her legion of followers to campaign for him. She could have done this on Tuesday evening in primetime, [Read more →]

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Chris Cillizza writes on his Washington Post blog, The Fix, that Hillary’s “concession speech tomorrow afternoon in Washington will be one of the most closely watched — and eternally analyzed — political addresses in modern history.” [Read more →]

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According to Associated Press reporters Beth Fouhy and Devlin Barrett, Hillary Rodham Clinton told colleagues Tuesday she would consider joining Barack Obama as his running mate, and advisers said she was withholding a formal departure from the race partly to use her remaining leverage to press for a spot on the ticket. On a conference call with other lawmakers, Clinton said she was willing to become Obama’s vice presidential nominee if it would help Democrats win the White House, according to several participants in the call. [Read more →]

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This morning the Associated Press released a story quoting anonymous sources within the Clinton campaign, indicating that Hillary would “concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.” Cable news networks jumped on the story and recast tonight’s Clinton rally as the venue for a concession speech, but campaign manager Terry McAuliffe and adviser Harold Ickes immediately took to the airwaves to emphatically deny the AP report.

RedPhoneDiaries is also hearing that the South Dakota primary is too close to call, [Read more →]

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In December 2007, Clinton campaign adviser Harold Ickes told Tim Russert on Meet the Press, “Timothy, delegates nominate. Not states, not popular vote, delegates.”

Today, Mr. Ickes sings an entirely different tune. Here is the transcript of his visit yesterday with Tim Russert. [Read more →]

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It’s 1968 all over again. Get out your armbands and flowers, people. Busloads of Hillary Clinton supporters are heading to the District from Florida and Michigan to protest at the DNC Rules & Bylaws Meeting on Saturday. Calvin Woodward of AP has the details as of today.

Naturally, the Clinton campaign disavowed having anything to do with the planned rally. “I am aware that there are lots of people very passionate about this topic who are coming,” said Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson.

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In today’s First Read, Mark Murray details “Hillary’s Final Pitch.” Her final argument to superdelegates relies on just one thing: electability. She and Bill are also talking a lot lately about the popular vote, but that argument is specious in the extreme, because it depends entirely on the inclusion of votes from the non-contested and uncounted Florida and Michigan primaries. Counting uncounted votes appears to be, well… Clintonesque. [Read more →]

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This will be the first of many posts on the subject of why Barack Obama should not ask Hillary Clinton to join his ticket as the Democratic Party’s Vice-Presidential candidate. Reason Number 1 was articulated in an offhand witticism by the usually serious David Gergen, appearing on CNN on the evening of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries. [Read more →]

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ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports on the latest salvo from Hillary in the Land of the Hanging Chads:

In Sunrise, Fla., Clinton assailed countries “where votes don’t count. [Read more →]

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