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Entries Tagged ‘Clinton’

Clinton’s Project T-Shirt - Now?

I just received an email inviting me to vote on my favorite Hillary Clinton t-shirt, and wondered… what is her point, exactly? The finalists are here. Isn’t it a little late to be putting t-shirts out there?
On Newsgang Live today we went around and around yet again about whether she was the right [...]

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4-8-92: Bill Clinton is the Democratic Nominee

Not June, no. APRIL.

NattheDem also points out that Bill Clinton agrees with the April 8th date in his memoirs.

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Hillary Clinton Squanders VP Possibility - Or Not?

In March, I was appalled by this remark:
TIME: Can you envision a point at which–if the race stays this close–Democratic Party elders would step in and say, “This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall”?
CLINTON: No, I really can’t. I think people have short memories. Primary contests used [...]

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“If Appalachia was a country, Hillary Clinton could be President”

Courtesy of Ron Reagan and Balloon Juice
The divine Rachel Maddow retorts: “Yeah, but she’d lose to McCain.”
The outrage expressed over at Balloon Juice is similar to my own. How can anyone say “Count all the votes” with a straight face and then turn around and claim to be ahead in the popular vote by excluding [...]

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Where the Clinton campaign tears a page out of Richard Nixon’s playbook

In 1950, Richard Nixon ruined Helen Gahagan Douglas, a passionate progressive California Congresswoman who was running for the Senate. Douglas, originally an up-and-coming Hollywood star, turned to politics after spending time in Central California with the migrant farm workers flowing in from Oklahoma and elsewhere. She was well-respected in the Congress, on track [...]

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