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February 2, 2008

A Competitive Primary, a Family Divided

The competitive Democratic primary has set husbands against wives. --Jose Antonio Vargas

Posted on February 2, 2008 at 7:29 PM ET | Comments (12)

Calif. Contest Leads to Battle of the Bands

California Democrats go to the polls on Tuesday and that can only mean one thing: a sudden surge in campaign efforts to trot out the brightest cultural stars in the Left Coast firmament. --Garance Franke-Ruta

Posted on February 2, 2008 at 5:50 PM ET | Comments (25)

McCain Picks Up John Edwards's Song

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Now that former North Carolina senator John Edwards has exited the presidential race, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is seizing the opening -- on the music front, that is. --Juliet Eilperin

Posted on February 2, 2008 at 1:32 PM ET | Comments (42)

With Female Surrogates at His Side, Obama Crisscrosses the West

As Barack Obama has made his way across the plains states and West this week, one feature has been nearly as consistent as the talk of hope and change: he almost always has a woman or two by his side. --Alec MacGillis

Posted on February 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM ET | Comments (12)

Obama's Private Idaho

More than 14,000 people turned out to pack the Boise State University Taco Bell Arena in Boise, Idaho, to see Barack Obama speak. --Alec MacGillis

Posted on February 2, 2008 at 1:01 PM ET | Comments (25)

Obama's Grassroots New York Campaign

New York may be Sen. Hillary Clinton's home turf, but the Obama campaign is targeting four heavily African American congressional districts in New York City, says State Senator Bill Perkins of Harlem, an Obama supporter, as well as ethnically mixed and majority-white areas throughout the state. --Robin Shulman

Posted on February 2, 2008 at 11:11 AM ET | Comments (25)

 

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