<><>DEMOCRATS<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
THE FIELD
Some Dems wish for 'dream team ticket'
By Susan Page
USA Today
March 28, 2008
WASHINGTON — What are the odds Democrats will field a "dream team ticket" with Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton combining forces? London bookmaker Ladbrokes is taking bets at 8-1, but leading Democratic insiders aren't ready to put down their money — yet. The conundrum: The need for a coalition ticket that could mend the party's divisions becomes more urgent as the primary battle stretches on and takes a harsher tone. Yet as their fight gets fiercer, it becomes harder to imagine the two ever getting together…
CLINTON
Clinton Calls for $30 Billion for Home Mortgage Crisis
By Patrick Healy
New York Times
March 28, 2008
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Congress to provide the money to help states and communities lessen the number of foreclosures…
Clinton Says She ‘Misspoke’ About Dodging Sniper Fire
By Patrick Healy and Katharine Q. Seelye
New York Times
March 28, 2008
The backpedaling about her description of a trip to Bosnia as first lady in 1996 was a rare instance of Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledging an error…
Clinton calls for new measures on foreclosures
By Michael Muskal
Los Angeles Times
March 24, 2008
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took her campaign to Pennsylvania today, focusing on economic issues that are most likely to appeal to blue-collar workers who are expected to be the key voting bloc in next month's presidential primary. In a speech at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Clinton, of New York, called for the creation of an emergency group to study how to deal with the nation's housing financing woes…
OBAMA
Obama’s Test: Can a Liberal Be a Unifier?
By Robin Toner
New York Times
March 25, 2008
The Obama campaign challenges the idea that a majority coalition must be carefully centrist, if not center-right…
Obama's life of striking contrasts
By Peter Wallsten
Los Angeles Times
March 24, 2008
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's friend was angry. The high school coaches were benching good black players. Black kids weren't getting dates. "These girls are A-1, USDA-certified racists. All of 'em," the friend said while the two teenagers wolfed down French fries, as the story goes in Obama's memoir. As far back as that sort of exchange in high school, a recurring character type has played a role in the life of Obama: a friend or associate who is quick to blame white America for the troubles of the black community…
<><>REPUBLICANS<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
McCAIN
An alliance that helps McCain -- and her
By Maeve Reston
Los Angeles Times
March 24, 2008
As John McCain begins a three-day swing today through California -- one of the newest members of his campaign team, outgoing EBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman, may draw much of the attention. Whitman, a 51-year-old billionaire, according to Forbes magazine, is said to be considering a run for California governor in 2010 after getting her first taste of politics on the finance team of ex-presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a former colleague at the consulting firm Bain & Co. Whitman was coy about her own political aspirations in an interview Friday about her new role as national co-chairwoman of McCain's presidential campaign…
<><> PRIMARY CONTESTS<><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
PENNSYLVANIA
In Pennsylvania Towns, a Sense of Disenfranchisement as Primary Vote Nears
By Paul Vitello
New York Times
March 25, 2008
In recent interviews with Pennsylvania voters of both parties, there seemed to be a yearning for an imagined past of common values…
Powerful Pa. Democrats on opposite sides
By Martha T. Moore
USA Today
March 28, 2008
PHILADELPHIA — Two Democratic rising stars find themselves on opposite sides in this state's pivotal presidential primary. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter swept into office last fall as the first African-American mayoral candidate to win both the black and white vote. In suburban Bucks County, freshman Rep. Patrick Murphy knocked out a Republican incumbent and became the first Iraq war veteran to serve in Congress. Now, both men are putting their new political leverage to work in the April 22 presidential primary. Each faces a heavy lift…
INDIANA
Indiana Shapes Up as a State of Parity for Democrats
By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post
March 25, 2008
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Something unusual appears to be developing in the Democratic presidential race in this state: a fair fight. Wedged between Illinois, which is Sen. Barack Obama's home state, and Ohio, which Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton dominated on March 4, Indiana may be the one state remaining on the primary calendar where both candidates begin with a roughly equal chance of coming out ahead. That fact alone makes it stand out from states such as Pennsylvania, where the playing field for the April 22 contest offers big advantages to Clinton (N.Y.), or the Oregon race a month later, which clearly tilts toward Obama…
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico moves primary up to June 1
Associated Press
March 28, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Party on Monday approved Puerto Rico's proposal to scrap its caucus and hold a presidential primary on June 1. A primary will give more voters a chance to take part in the nominating process, said Puerto Rico Democratic Chairman Roberto Prats. He said caucuses were fine in previous years, when the party nominee was settled by the time Puerto Rico voted and the only task was to choose delegates to the national convention…
<><>RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE<><><><><><><><><><><>
Campaigns Quick to Shake Loose Cannons
By Christopher Cooper
Wall Street Journal
March 25, 2008
Presidential candidates have gotten touchy about their prominent friends. Sen. Hillary Clinton dropped former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro from her campaign, Sen. Barack Obama backed away from Rev. Jeremiah Wright and academic Samantha Power, and Sen. John McCain rebuked Texas televangelist James Hagee -- all because of divisive statements the friends made…
<><>WAR/TERROR<><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Bush Given Iraq War Plan With a Steady Troop Level
By Steven Lee Myers and Thom Shanker
New York Times
March 25, 2008
Troop levels in Iraq would remain nearly the same through 2008 as at any time during five years of war, senior officials said…
4,000 Dead: Messages From the Front Lines
By Lizette Alvarez and Andrew W. Lehren
New York Times
March 25, 2008
Excerpts from the e-mail messages, journals and Web postings of six soldiers who have died in Iraq since Jan. 1, 2007, among them Army Specialist Jerry Ryen King…
Bush Says War's Outcome 'Will Merit the Sacrifice'
President and Petraeus Discuss Strategy as Number of U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq Hits 4,000
By Karen DeYoung and Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post
March 25, 2008
As the death toll for American troops in Iraq reached 4,000, President Bush conferred yesterday with top U.S. officials in Washington and in Baghdad and vowed in a public statement that the outcome of the war "will merit the sacrifice. Bush held a two-hour videoconference with Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker. In congressional testimony scheduled for April, they are expected to describe continued but slow improvement in military and political conditions, even as recent weeks have seen an increase in suicide bombings, along with Sunday's renewal of rocket attacks on Baghdad's Green Zone, where the U.S. Embassy and much of the Iraqi government are located…
<><>CONGRESS<><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
GOP's Silver Lining in Congress
By Gerald F. Seib
Wall Street Journal
March 25, 2008
Rep. Tom Cole just might have the worst job in Washington. The Oklahoma lawmaker is in charge of getting Republicans elected to the House in 2008 -- a year in which 29 of his Republican House colleagues already have announced they won't run for re-election, in which the House Republican campaign committee is suffering from a fund-raising deficit and a financial scandal, in which Americans say by a 49% to 35% margin that they would prefer a Congress controlled by Democrats, and in which Republicans already have lost a special election for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat…
<><>OTHER NEWS<><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><>
How Government Adds To Ranks of Uninsured
Many Outsourced Federal Jobs Don't Offer Health Insurance; Using Cash Allowance for Rent
By Jane Zhang
Wall Street Journal
March 25, 2008
When William Rogers, a medical officer at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, noticed a cashier in the agency cafeteria was having trouble walking, he was blunt: "Fay," he said, "you need to get on a diet."
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