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January 13, 2008
No Obamamania from Michigan GOP Chair
Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis has a new nickname for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.): "pet rock." --Juliet Eilperin
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 7:55 PM ET | Comments (41)
With Talk of Cars, Romney Courts Michigan Voters
During a rally this afternoon before several hundred supporters at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Romney told the crowd that unlike policy makers who have ignored Michigan's economic plight, he could help "build a brighter, prosperous future" here by championing the auto industry. --Juliet Eilperin
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 7:03 PM ET | Comments (24)
Clinton, Obama Campaigns Spar Over Remarks
Continuing what has become an escalating fight between the two camps over black voters in South Carolina, billionaire mogul Bob Johnson, one of Sen. Hillary Clinton's most prominent African American supporters, mocked Senator Barack Obama's hopeful rhetoric and suggested Obama was "doing something in the neighborhood" at a time when Clinton and her husband Bill were working on civil rights issues. --Perry Bacon Jr.
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 6:24 PM ET | Comments (181)
Edwards, Obama Join Fray Over Clinton MLK Comments
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, embroiled in an intense dispute over comments about civil rights leaders, on Sunday accused the Obama campaign of "deliberately distorting" her words to inflame the debate. In his toughest response yet, Sen. Barack Obama quickly fired back that Clinton had made an "unfortunate remark" when she said that Rev. Martin Luther King had depended on Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson to get civil rights legislation passed. And for the first time, former Sen. John Edwards weighed in on a war of words that is rapidly consuming the dialogue between the top three Democratic presidential candidates in the most diverse campaign in history. --Anne E. Kornblut
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 2:31 PM ET | Comments (58)
Clinton Says Obama Playing Racial Politics
By Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Talk Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Sen. Barack Obama's presidential...
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 2:09 PM ET | Comments (135)
Clinton Takes Pride in Obama in S.C.
An hour after slamming Senator Barack Obama's voting record on national television, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went positive and declared herself "proud" of him. After appearing on Meet the Press from Columbia, she spoke at Northminster Presbyterian Church here, a small African-American congregation -- part of her ongoing effort to court a group of voters who have to choose between Clinton, a politician they like and admire, and Obama, who would be the country's first black president. --Perry Bacon
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 1:24 PM ET | Comments (38)
At Daughter's Urging, McCaskill Backs Obama
Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), an up-and-coming freshman who scored one of the biggest Senate upsets of the 2006 midterm election cycle, in what is now a vital Feb. 5 battleground. --Shailagh Murray
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 11:01 AM ET | Comments (38)
