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THE FIELD
Obama Camp Raised $55 Million In February, Outpacing Clinton
By NICK Timiraos
Wall Street Journal
March 7, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama raised a record $55 million last month -- a pace of more than half a billion dollars a year and the most ever raised by a presidential primary candidate in a single month…
Democrats in a Bind Over Michigan, Florida
By June Kronholz
Wall Street Journal
March 7, 2008
There may be only three ways to end the impasse over the fate of Michigan and Florida's delegates, Democratic activists say -- with the Clinton campaign furious, the Obama campaign mad or the voters angriest of all…
Who Will Win Nomination? It's Down to a Numbers Game
By Jackie Calmes
Wall Street Journal
March 7, 2008
Here is the bottom line in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination: Sen. Barack Obama is all but certain to keep his lead in delegates through the last contest in June. He still won't have enough to be nominee. But he'll need a lot fewer superdelegates to put him over the top than Sen. Hillary Clinton…
By Dorothy Rabinowitz
Wall Street Journal
March 7, 2008
Long months before two "Saturday Night Live" skits lampooned a media besotted with Barack Obama -- the deathless eloquence of his speeches, his cool, his grace, his swooning crowds -- a large audience of Americans had begun to grasp the import of the daily drip drip drip of this infatuation on the part of journalists and commentators, and their equally obvious coldness, to put it mildly, to Sen. Obama's competitor Hillary Clinton. It was hard to miss. Finally, in the past few days, journalists seem to have reacted to the adroit skewering they took in the SNL skits…
Democrats Try to End Impasse Over Delegates
By John M. Broder
New York Times
March 7, 2008
The fate of the Florida and Michigan delegations has emerged as a battleground that could be as important to the candidates as April’s Pennsylvania primary…
Bill Clinton Heads to Philadelphia
By Katharine Q. Seelye
New York Times
March 7, 2008
The campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are sending in the big guns to vie for the endorsement of Philadelphia ward leaders…
More Money Is Pouring In for Clinton and Obama
By Jeff Zeleny and Katharine Q. Seelye
New York Times
March 7, 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton raised $4 million from Tuesday through noon Thursday, and Barack Obama raised $55 million in February…
Michigan and Florida Have Democrats in a State
By Dan Balz
Washington Post
March 7, 2008
As Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama competed through more than 40 contests over the past two months, Michigan and Florida remained on the sidelines, barred from participating in the Democratic presidential nomination process because they violated party rules. Now, with neither candidate likely to win enough delegates to capture the nomination, the question is whether the two states will end up deciding the race by holding do-over contests this spring…
Clinton Strengths Aren't Lost on The Obama Team
After Defeats, Managed Expectations
By Anne E. Kornblut and Krissah Williams
Washington Post
March 7, 2008
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are mounting campaign efforts in Pennsylvania on a scale not seen since the Iowa caucuses, even as the Obama campaign attempts to cast the April 22 contest as just another in a string of more than a dozen to go…
Comic 'news' a force in '08 campaign
How the media coverage has shaped this presidential election cycle.
By Alexandra Marks
Christian Science Monitor
March 7, 2008
Barack Obama seemed truly disappointed. On his campaign plane this week he told reporters, "I didn't expect that you guys would bite on that."
Democrats brainstorm Michigan, Florida delegate disputes
By Peter Nicholas and Michael Finnegan
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2008
WASHINGTON — Eager to break an impasse over contested votes, prominent Democrats are floating possible solutions that would include new presidential nominating contests in Florida and Michigan, or a compromise forged by a special committee of party elders…
Democrats fear an ugly end to race
By Peter Nicholas
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Leading Democrats scrambled Wednesday to prevent the closest, most riveting presidential contest in decades from tearing the party apart, as the odds rose that neither Hillary Rodham Clinton nor Barack Obama could clinch the nomination without angering large blocs of voters…
Democrats play hardball -- with risks
By Jill Lawrence
USA Today
March 7, 2008
WASHINGTON — As the Democratic nomination race continues in near deadlock, rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are faced with a delicate task: They're trying to hit each other hard enough to win more contests, without turning off the party VIPs likely to make or break their bids…
By Martha T. Moore and Jill Lawrence
USA Today
March 7, 2008
More than 2 million Democrats in Michigan and Florida cast ballots in presidential primaries held in January, but under party rules their votes didn't count toward picking a nominee…
Record turnout slows Texas caucus results
Associated Press
March 7, 2008
AUSTIN (AP) — Fewer than half of Texas' voting sites had reported the results by Thursday from Democratic caucuses Tuesday night that were so chaotic and overcrowded by record turnout that police were called to some polling places…
OBAMA
Jurors in Rezko Case Hear From Both Sides
Lawyer Points to Alleged Co-Conspirator
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post
March 7, 2008
CHICAGO, March 6 -- Antoin Rezko, a businessman best known as a political fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), was too busy making money legally to join an elaborate scheme to cheat Illinois taxpayers and extort millions of dollars from financial firms, his attorney told a federal jury Thursday at the start of Chicago's latest high-profile political corruption trial…
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McCAIN
McCain non-committal on veep choice
Associated Press
March 7, 2008
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republican John McCain praised Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a potential running mate, as they campaigned together Thursday, although he sidestepped questions about a vice presidential choice…
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WYOMING
With Race Unfinished, Attention Turns to Wyoming
By Kirk Johnson
New York Times
March 7, 2008
In a state where Republicans have a more than two-to-one edge in voter registration, anticipation is high among Democrats for their caucuses…
INDIANA
Indiana eyes its moment in 2008 sun
By Mary Beth Schneider
Indianapolis Star
March 7, 2008
The sign in the crowd in Ohio behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday night summed it up. "On to Indiana," it said…
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Party Donations Show G.O.P. Edge
By Leslie Wayne
New York Times
March 7, 2008
For all the money raised by the Democratic presidential candidates, the Republicans are beating them in one crucial area: fund-raising by the parties themselves…
New York Times
March 7, 2008
At least 25 domain names related to Hillary Rodham Clinton and 20 related to Barack Obama have links to the Republican National Committee…
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Why Congress, Bush disagree on waterboarding of terror suspects
By Warren Richey
Christian Science Monitor
March 7, 2008
Much of the debate over interrogation techniques in the war on terror is focusing on a tactic called waterboarding. But a bill passed last month outlaws the full range of harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency to force terror suspects to talk…
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Senate Democrats Hope for a Majority Not Seen in 30 Years: 60 Seats
By David M. Herszenhorn
New York Times
March 7, 2008
Some Democrats, hoping for a seismic shift in November, believe that a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate is within reach…
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