Three more great articles from The Economist on this past Tuesday’s election excerpted below. The first article deals with the expectations that President-elect Barack Obama will face once he takes the Oath of Office on January 20th.
Great expectations of Barack Obama | The Economist Nov 6th 2008, From The Economist print edition
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Campaign: Obama’s VP choice to be announced Saturday – CNN.com
(CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama’s choice for running mate will be announced to supporters in a text message Saturday morning, senior Obama campaign officials told CNN on Friday night, and a senior party official said it won’t be Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Obama called some [...]
Terrific article on Economist.com this week analysing how Hillary Clinton’s campaign fell apart …
The Economist is a British newsmag, with a moderate lean to the right … but their articles are incredibly insightful and researched, and presented more objectively than any American media outlet.
The post-mortem | The fall of the House of [...]
Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee
WASHINGTON (CNN) — In what he called a “defining moment for our nation,” Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday became the first African-American to head the ticket of a major political party.
Obama’s steady stream of superdelegate endorsements, combined with the delegates he received from Tuesday’s primaries, put [...]
Florida, Michigan get all delegates, but each gets half vote – CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) — After a day of wrangling in front of a sometimes unruly crowd, the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee reinstated all of Florida and Michigan’s delegates to its party convention, with each getting a half-vote to penalize the [...]
Florida, Michigan get all delegates, but each gets half vote – CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) — After a day of wrangling in front of a sometimes unruly crowd, the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee reinstated all of Florida and Michigan’s delegates to its party convention, with each getting a half-vote to penalize the [...]
Bill Clinton: ‘Cover up’ hiding Hillary Clinton’s chances
(CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if Hillary Clinton is not the nominee, and suggested some were trying to “push and pressure and bully” superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely.
“I can’t believe it. It [...]
Carter: After June 3, it will be time for Clinton to ‘give it up’
(CNN) — Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday that in a little more than a week, when the last Democratic primary voters weigh in, it will be time for Hillary Clinton to “give it up.”
Carter told Britain’s Sky News [...]
Clinton explains RFK assassination reference
BRANDON, South Dakota (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season.
Earlier Friday afternoon, she told the editorial [...]
From the Huffington Post:
Superdelegates Turned Down $1 Million Offer From Clinton Donor
One of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization’s two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse the New York Democrat, a high-ranking [...]
