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...Instead, she hid behind her consultants and had Bubba—a man popular among many progressives—make the case. As much as she had tried to say otherwise, I recognized precisely then that this campaign really wasn’t about her or her political “experience.” It was about Bill Clinton and evoking the popularity of his presidency as justification for the reentry of both Clintons into the White House. The issue was Bill, not Hillary...
...Box” ceased to exist years ago, and while MTV’s TRL is technically still on the air, it’s fallen a long way from the days of Carson Daly and the ceremonial “retirings” of its most popular videos. MTV and VH1 have both devoted themselves largely to reality shows, which are cheap to make and infinitely reproducible. Music videos today just do not exist in a TRL-dominated universe. A sly reference to these days gone by was included in Saturday’s program. In Jonas & Francois?...
...settled nothing. In a result now achingly familiar to the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split the popular vote 50.2% to 49.8%, by a margin so thin, you could barely slide a butterfly ballot betwixt. Tuesday slipped into Wednesday without anyone knowing for sure how many delegates each candidate had captured, as provisional ballots in New Mexico were slowly tabulated by hand...
...only weeks before, Obama came away from the day's voting having won more states - 13 to her 8 - and slightly more delegates than she did. But Clinton had considerable bragging rights as well. She won California, the night's biggest prize, and a slightly larger percentage of the popular vote and took particular glee in routing Obama in Massachusetts, despite all the hoopla that had surrounded Obama's endorsement by Senator Edward Kennedy and much of his family, as well as the state's other Senator, 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry, and Governor Deval Patrick...
...days, the French dailies have carried quotes from candidates of Sarkozy's conservative Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) party who complain of negative feedback about the President from voters ahead of municipal polling in March. Others also complain about how advisers in Sarkozy's omnipotent Elysée now regularly make policy announcements normally reserved for government cabinet ministers...