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...After years of battling the scandal machine that Hillary Clinton once called the "vast right-wing conspiracy," she and her inner circle feel well prepared for this sort of fight. Students of the Clintons' long career have noted that they do better in a scrape. Combat brings them to the balls of their feet; by contrast, they tend to spring leaks on calm seas. Clinton's successful attacks broke Obama's 12-win streak that had buoyed him through a month of victories, and her advisers now feel they have put a stick in the spokes of his momentum. "They...
...after the first four contests that everyone tries to carve out a special space. And the voters of Florida clearly took it seriously. I think that there is an effort both on the part of the Democratic governor in Michigan and Florida to try to figure out how to sort this through. I feel strongly that we shouldn't be telling Democratic voters in states we have to carry that their votes don't count...
...That sort of gets to my next point. You said it's the natural cycle of these things, do you think you've lost the momentum at this point? Are you still the frontrunner? I never thought I was the frontrunner. We're running against the most dominant and entrenched, Democratic, established candidate in recent history. It's hard to beat...
...bigger question is how would they do it. In Michigan, which has experience holding caucuses, that route is one possibility. Another would be a so-called "fire house primary," which is sort of a hybrid process that takes place in an open room, not in voting booths...
...everyone in the region has chosen a side: Caught in the middle are the likes of Brazil's center-left President Lula da Silva, trying in vain to bridge the chasm. Right now, that appears to be an intractable diplomatic challenge - not the sort of mess you'd ever expect to be solved by the Organization of American States, long derided as one of the hemisphere's more hopelessly ineffectual institutions...