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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them.' BARACK OBAMA, on rural working-class voters. A blogger recorded the comment during a San Francisco fund raiser that excluded the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...wobbly plane and mount a clean push for victory. Instead, McCain just corkscrewed into the ground. And so it will be important to see what lessons McCain learns from his campaign and what role he plays as a member of a shrunken minority in Congress. Will he harbor bitter memories of his defeat and the poor treatment he feels he received from his old friends in the national media? Or will he revert to past form and become an accessible gadfly and bipartisan dealmaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Past Defeat: How Can McCain Recover? | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...while Obama was the new guy. He said the press was also swayed by the possibility of America electing its first black President, who could get the country "past the old racial baggage we have lugged around for so many years." "I understand that appeal," Salter continued, sounding neither bitter nor upset. "I think McCain probably, as you can tell from his speech last night, felt part of that a little himself. And I think that required the press, then, to start rationalizing McCain into something he wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Aide Mark Salter Reflects on the Defeat | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...official newspaper, Granma, when referencing Castro's support, Coffey says. "The robo-calls started three or four days ago. I haven't heard them, but my friends in the Cuban-American community have. They are targeting Democrats and Republicans based on age, because older Cubans have the most bitter experience with Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...denounced the "bitter," "partisan" tone of the campaign as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brit Hume Looks Back | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

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