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...divisive, knock-down, drag-out affair. Not only is the party still licking its wounds from the tough primary battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but the Republicans are doing their best to stoke the tensions of race, gender, class and age exposed by the drawn-out contest...
...Minister Ehud Olmert entered into what his critics decry as a pact with the devil. But many in Olmert's cabinet and among his top generals say this was the only sensible course of action: The alternative would have been a full-blown Israeli invasion of Gaza and a drawn-out campaign that would have killed hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers - and even then, such an offensive would not likely have dislodged Hamas or eliminated its potential to fire rockets at Israel...
...Obama is able to do this in part because of the grueling, drawn-out delegate fight with Clinton that only just ended. The long primary season forced the campaign to build bases of support for the Illinois Senator in every state. The dividends of the high-profile Democratic presence are already being felt. Earlier this year, Democrats picked up three long-held G.O.P. congressional seats in special elections in Mississippi, Louisiana and Illinois. The party is also mounting House challenges in 14 states that Bush won in 2004, including Wyoming, Alabama and Arizona. And Democratic candidates are contesting at least...
Democrats have spent much of the past couple of months worrying about the potential damaging effects of the drawn-out nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. But on Saturday they may have a new image problem on their hands: the specter of angry hordes of Clinton supporters showing up at the Washington meeting of the Democratic National Committee's Rules & Bylaws Committee to protest against the disenfranchisement of 2.3 million voters in Florida and Michigan...
...Whitewater scandal. "We are not going to talk about those issues in the campaign and won't," Plouffe said. Asked repeatedly by reporters on a conference call if the increasingly divisive race could harm the party, Plouffe only emphasized what he called the "silver lining" of a drawn-out primary season: "a far, far better organization in the battleground states than any nominee in history...