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...most strategically important of all. Already it appears that Clinton may use her own experience in the White House to try to nudge Obama to keep his many promises. A larger-than-expected deficit forced her husband to delay some of his priorities in 1993, a decision that greatly upset Hillary Clinton and her allies at the time. While there are already those who are arguing that Obama's ambitious and expensive health-care-reform effort will have to wait until the economy is in better shape, Clinton disagrees. "I'm going to make the case that it's important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Once and Future Hillary Clinton | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Kansas District 2: How Republicans Can Come Back In 2006, Democratic centrist Nancy Boyda upset GOP conservative Jim Ryun in this reliably Republican district, portraying Ryun as an extremist in a Democratic year. This year, Ryun tried to reclaim his seat - but lost in the Republican primary to state treasurer Lynn Jenkins, who's a lot closer to the political center. Now Jenkins has ousted Boyda in another Democratic year, and has probably assured herself a safe seat. America has plenty of conservatives, but there are only so many places where Republicans can win by appealing exclusively to their base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Republicans, It Could Have Been Worse | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...papers all over the state. In the 2004 presidential election, New Hampshire became the only state that had voted for Bush in 2000 to flip into the Democratic column. The backlash continued in 2006, with more dramatic results. Riding a tide of anti-war opinion, two Democratic challengers upset both of the state's GOP congressmen. Popular Governor John Lynch held onto his seat with 76% of the vote, and Democrats took control of both the state House and Senate, putting the party in charge of both the executive and legislative branches for the first time since the 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Sununu Survive the Toxic GOP? | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...Sometimes Obama’s accommodating nature even upset his own supporters—Norris said that he would sometimes anger liberals by not being “dismissive of arguments that should have been dismissed...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama's Quiet Harvard Roots | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...statewide surveys also show Obama leading McCain in Pennsylvania, the key blue state in which McCain is making a last-ditch, major push to score an upset, by a comfortable 12-point margin, 55% to 43%. But Obama still trails his Republican rival in McCain's home state of Arizona by a 7-point margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Holds Leads in Key Swing States as Election Nears | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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