Word: gop
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...only question on the table is whether the patient - and the considerable following that ministers to her - wants to get well. You have to wonder whether maybe, perversely, the process will be helped along by everything that John McCain is doing to slow it down. For days the GOP has been merrily sprinkling salt in Democrats' wounds, launching ads featuring Hillary supporters defecting to Team McCain and hosting a "Happy Hour for Hillary" to woo her supporters to the Republican side. On Monday the party held a press conference featuring Ohio Democratic activist Cynthia Ruccia denouncing Barack Obama for having...
...GOP and John McCain released several new ads over the weekend intended to rile up and appeal to the roughly 28% of Clinton backers who have told pollsters they are still undecided or plan to vote for McCain this fall. One titled "Passed Over" implies that his Democratic opponent didn't choose Clinton to be his running mate because he couldn't handle her "truth"-telling, while another features a "proud Hillary Clinton Democrat" declaring her intention to support McCain in the fall. Rumors of intraparty strife reached such a fever pitch Monday morning, including talk that Bill Clinton...
...those who remembered Obama telling voters for the past month that he didn't want a Washington insider. Two of the other four finalists were from outside the Beltway - Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine (the fourth being Indiana Senator Evan Bayh). To vaccinate against GOP attempts to paint Biden as an insider, the campaign has been careful to underline Biden's distance from Washington. "He never moved to Washington," Obama said while introducing Biden. "Instead, night after night, week after week, year after year, he returned home to Wilmington on a lonely Amtrak train when...
Despite falling well short in his brief run for the Democratic nomination, Biden was thought to have performed well and with discipline in what seemed like an endless series of Democratic debates. Most memorable was the line with which he took the sheen off one-time GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11." Democrats realize that with Biden, they are likely to see some occasional errant punches. "I hope so," says one Obama adviser. "Because that will mean he is swinging...
...middlebrow, which has made him irresistible to the wine-and-cheese lovers of the self-consciously sensible center. Republicans saw troubling signs of this way back in January's Iowa caucuses, when they discovered, to their shock, that Obama was actually pulling some moderate Republican voters away from the GOP caucus. His success in Iowa has been so complete that it may abandon its swing-state tendencies and move firmly into Obama's column. And it's not just Iowa. Last month I saw a poll showing Obama with a surprisingly strong lead in Detroit's wealthiest suburban county...