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...Obama ended his Pennsylvania campaign in Evansville, in Indiana's southern tip, marking his fourth visit to the Hoosier State in the last month by declaring to some 7,500 people, "The challenges that we face are bigger than the smallness of our politics, and we know that this election is our chance to change it." Clinton, for her part, is swooping into Indianapolis today for a rally expected to center on a key issue here - the economy. It will mark her fifth day in Indiana in the last month. Add Bill and Chelsea, and the Clintons will have spent...
...wake of his bruising loss in the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama once again faces questions about his toughness and willingness to play politics the old-fashioned way in response to Hillary Clinton's attacks. But even though Obama is under pressure to start throwing more punches, there's little evidence his campaign is heeding...
...fact, the Obama campaign took pains to strike a positive note a day after Obama's nearly 10-point loss in Pennsylvania, which some pundits attributed to the negative tone of campaigning between the Illinois Senator and Clinton in the weeks ahead of the Keystone primary. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe vehemently disavowed a Washington Post report Wednesday that they intended to go heavily negative following the loss in Pennsylvania-dredging up old sores such as former President Bill Clinton's impeachment and the Whitewater scandal. "We are not going to talk about those issues in the campaign...
...meeting Wednesday in New Albany, Indiana, referring to her only once by name to underline to the audience the important choice that lies ahead: Indiana and North Carolina are the next states to vote on May 6. In contrast, Obama's speeches over the weekend-his closing arguments in Pennsylvania-were lengthy and sometimes harsh explanations of the differences between...
...every turn in his campaign Obama has faced pressure to attack Clinton-pressure he has usually avoided until Pennsylvania. Throughout the long summer, when Clinton was viewed as the inevitable Democratic nominee, Obama supporters pushed him to go on the offensive. Instead, he held his tongue, stressed his theme of change and a new kind of politics, and managed to pull out a stunning victory in Iowa. Even as the campaign has dragged on and gotten increasingly heated, Obama rarely attacks first. He took more than a week, for example, to hit Clinton after her chief strategist Mark Penn resigned...