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Democratic Rules Committee gathering this weekend will produce drama, no resolution

By Steve Perry | 05.28.08 | 11:53 am

Hillary Clinton has said repeatedly that she will take her fight to seat the full Florida and Michigan delegations at the Democratic National Convention all the way to the convention if necessary, so don’t expect to…

Oregon, Kentucky primaries: The box scores

By Steve Perry | 05.21.08 | 10:06 am

Final* scores:

Kentucky: Clinton 459,145 (65%), Obama 209,771 (30%)

Oregon: Obama 331,138 (58%), Clinton 236,470 (42%)*
*88% of precincts reporting

Delegate count (CNN):

Analysis: Carpetbagger Report, CNN,

Polls: Late Oregon numbers split on whether race is tightening there; Obama surges nationally

By Steve Perry | 05.20.08 | 9:49 am

Here are the results of four different polls from Oregon that were taken between May 14 and May 18. Two of them indicate a fairly dramatic closing of the gap by Hillary Clinton; two of them do…

HRC proxy Weinstein threatens Pelosi, Dems with nuclear winter if they don’t back FL/MI revote

By Steve Perry | 05.08.08 | 1:50 pm

Producer and HRC mainstay Harvey Weinstein is pushing a plan in which he would put together the dollars required to do primary re-votes in Florida and Michigan. He wants the blessing of key Democrats — with their…

Video: The post-primary speeches

By Steve Perry | 05.07.08 | 10:37 am

Both post-primary speeches were interesting this time around–Obama’s for tactical and rhetorical reasons, Clinton’s for its unfolding psychodrama. As I said in the previous post, watch Bill.

Barack Obama in North Carolina (10:38)

Hillary Clinton in Indiana, part

New Hampshire: Step 2 on the long road

By Joe Bodell | 01.09.08 | 7:30 am

No one ever said it was going to be easy to win the presidential nomination.

Well, some did.  But they were wrong.

Proving most of the tracking polls wrong, Hillary Clinton pulled out a narrow win over Barack Obama in…

Super Duper Tuesday in Minnesota: How does it work?

By Andy Birkey | 01.08.08 | 3:31 pm

On Feb. 5, the Republican Party of Minnesota, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the Independence Party of Minnesota will all hold caucuses, and will join 23 other states whose political parties will hold either caucuses or primaries as well, a day…

Inside the mind of a N.H. primary voter

By Joe Bodell | 01.08.08 | 7:45 am

What are voters in New Hampshire thinking?

It’s a tough question for most of us in Minnesota to answer, since we’re approximately 1,400 miles away from the Granite State.  Plenty of national media are on the ground there, so we…