<><>DEMOCRATS<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
THE FIELD
Clinton Treats Obama Pastor With Extreme Caution
By Patrick Healy
New York Times
March 21, 2008
ANDERSON, Ind. — Ever since Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton started running for president, her team has argued that she is more electable than Senator Barack Obama: more experience, as first lady and senator; more spine, after years fighting Republicans; and more popular with key voter blocs, like women, Hispanics and the elderly…
Obama Campaign Says Clinton Misrepresented Her Support for Nafta
By Julie Bosman
New York Times
March 21, 2008
Newly released White House schedules show that Hillary Rodham Clinton attended several meetings on the trade pact while first lady…
Obama, Clinton stress economic issues during stops in West Virginia, Indiana
By Michael Muskal
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2008
The Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination took on the economy today as they campaigned in states whose primaries are more than a month away. Sen. Barack Obama, who campaigned in West Virginia, stressed the financial cost of the five years of war in Iraq. It was money, he argued, that could have been used for domestic needs such as healthcare and education…
CLINTON
Campaign May Lose A Momentum Boost In Florida, Michigan
By June Kronholz
Wall Street Journal
March 21, 2008
Sen. Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the presidential nomination were deeply wounded by the apparent collapse of do-over primaries in Florida and Michigan this week. The other big loser may be the Democratic Party…
Clinton's Experience Is Debated
While Not a Foreign Crisis Player, She Carried U.S. Message
By Peter Baker and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post
March 21, 2008
On March 22, 1999, Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at the Itihadiya Palace in Egypt for what her schedule said was a "courtesy call w/President Mubarak." Aides blocked out 9 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Then she embarked on visits to a mosque, museum, clinic, bazaar, youth center, groundwater project, university and the tombs of Luxor…
By Fredreka Schouten
USA Today
March 21, 2008
WASHINGTON — Ten wealthy Democrats have offered to pay for a new presidential primary in Michigan — all with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who showed up in the state Wednesday seeking a revote. Five of the donors are listed on Clinton's campaign website as among her major fundraisers. All 10 have contributed to Clinton's presidential or Senate campaigns or the races run by former president Bill Clinton, according to federal data compiled by the non-profit Center for Responsive Politics…
Clinton counting on Bayh in Indiana
Associated Press
March 21, 2008
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — At times Thursday it was hard to tell who was running for president in Indiana — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or the man who never left her side, Sen. Evan Bayh, a popular politician and perhaps the former first lady's best hope for winning the state's May 6 primary…
OBAMA
Two Fired After Looking At Obama's Passport File
Associated Press
March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Two contract employees for the State Department have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at the passport file of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, a spokesman said Thursday…
Obama Links Effects of War Costs to Fragility in the Economy
By Jeff Zeleny and Michael Cooper
New York Times
March 21, 2008
Barack Obama implored voters in West Virginia to consider the trickle-down economic consequences of “careless and incompetent execution” in Iraq…
Obama speech opens up race dialogue
Will it stand alongside the great speeches in US history?
By Amanda Paulson and Alexandra Marks
Christian Science Monitor
March 21, 2008
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. John F. Kennedy's Houston Ministerial Association address. And… Barack Obama's race speech? Several students of political rhetoric suggest Senator Obama's moving speech in Philadelphia Tuesday could stand with some of the great speeches in American history…
<><>REPUBLICANS<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
McCAIN
McCain Turns His Attention to Raising Cash for Race
By Leslie Wayne
New York Times
March 21, 2008
John McCain raised $11 million in February, slightly less than in January, even though he was headed toward a certain nomination…
McCain aide suspended for publicizing anti-Obama video
By Michael Muskal
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2008
A low-level political staffer for the John McCain presidential campaign has been suspended indefinitely for sending out an electronic link to a YouTube video connecting Sen. Barack Obama to the comments of his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright…
<><> PRIMARY CONTESTS<><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
MICHIGAN
Michigan Lawmakers Won’t Back a New Primary
By John M. Broder
New York Times
March 21, 2008
WASHINGTON — There will be no new primary in Michigan. Ignoring entreaties from state party leaders and an in-person plea from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday, state lawmakers adjourned Thursday without acting on a bill to authorize a do-over of the disqualified Democratic presidential primary held in January, effectively killing any new vote…
Collapse of Effort to Hold New Primary Is a Setback for Clinton
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post
March 21, 2008
The effort to schedule a June revote for the Michigan Democratic primary collapsed yesterday, dealing a potentially serious blow to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the White House…
<><>RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE<><><><><><><><><><><>
The Web's New Political Dynamic
Smaller Donors Benefit Democratic Contenders; Diluting Special Interests
By Mary Jacoby
Wall Street Journal
March 21, 2008
The recent flood of Internet donations that has helped pump 2008 presidential campaign coffers to highs also is accomplishing what Watergate-era campaign-finance regulations set out to do: dilute the influence of special interests and wealthy donors…
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Bush Says U.S. Must Win Iraq War; Troop Surge Is Producing Results
Antiwar Demonstrators Arrested On 5-Year Anniversary of Invasion
Associated Press
March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Five years after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush strongly signaled Wednesday that he won't order troop withdrawals beyond those already planned because he refuses to "jeopardize the hard-fought gains" of the past year…
Same war. Same platoon. Two paths since leaving Iraq.
By Jill Carroll
Christian Science Monitor
March 21, 2008
Vincent Emanuele thinks of his teenage self growing up in Indiana and recalls being interested in three things: "girls, beer, and sports." About that same time, out in California, Travis Pinn was looking for adventure: scuba diving, shooting guns, and jumping out of planes…
<><>CONGRESS<><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Republican Congressman Is 29th to Pick Retirement
By Susan Davis
Wall Street Journal
March 21, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The electoral forecast for Republicans turned chillier Thursday with the announcement of the retirement of New York Republican Tom Reynolds, who became the 29th Republican to decide against seeking re-election since the 2006 Democratic takeover of the House…
<><>OTHER NEWS<><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Washington Revisits Financial Regulation
By Damian Paletta and Kara Scannell
Wall Street Journal
March 21, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The credit-market turmoil has sparked a broad rethinking of how Washington regulates financial institutions, giving momentum to several ideas once thought politically unfeasible…
Can U.S. avert a Japan-style economic bust?
Similar crises have hit other nations, but Sweden bounced back far faster than Japan.
By Mark Trumbull
Christian Science Monitor
March 21, 2008
From Japan to Sweden, other nations have traveled from real estate busts to financial crises in recent years, leaving behind a simple lesson: Effective policy makes the difference between a long or a slow recovery…
Do politics really tilt classrooms?
Students feel they learn more from professors whose views jibe with their own, researchers find.
By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo
Christian Science Monitor
March 21, 2008
For April Kelly-Woessner and her husband, Matthew Woessner, political issues don't break neatly into "red" and "blue" in everyday conversation…
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