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...didn't merely declare her own wholehearted support for Obama. She challenged her supporters - a quarter of whom now favor John McCain over Obama, according to recent polls - to put aside their lingering resentments and think about the bigger picture. "I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?" And at another point: "You haven't worked so hard over the last 18 months, or endured the last eight years, to suffer through more failed leadership. No way. No how. No McCain...
...main questions that each of us should ask,” Patrick said at the Brown Palace Hotel on Monday, “are how we engage and why we should engage young people in politics...
...many events do you think I should be working?" Obama says with a laugh when I ask him about the lackadaisical pace. Comparatively, I say, Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004 kept much brisker schedules; Kerry, who had named his running mate, John Edwards, weeks before the convention, spent the last week of the primaries hustling through a bus tour from Norfolk, Va., to Philadelphia and on to New York City, while Gore barnstormed across battleground states, doing a "handoff" in Michigan to the Clintons, who preceded him to the convention...
...many abortion-rights activists have worried that "abortion reduction" is simply a Trojan horse to allow further restrictions on abortion. When a group of progressive Evangelicals announced earlier this summer that they planned to ask the Obama campaign to add abortion-reduction language to the platform, abortion-rights leaders Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling wrote a furious essay for Salon.com, charging that such a move would be "condescending and sexist," as well as a "tacit condemnation of the choices many women make...
Ever the mellow guy, there is only one point where Nugen tenses up during our conversation and that's when I ask about news reports saying the Clintons planned to raise money at the convention to help pay off her debt. "I'm not going to get into details of those conversations," Nugen says...