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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Estimating how much Obama spends -- and how much the U.S. mobile business will receive -- depends on a few factors: How many people have signed up to receive the message; what percentage of those people pay for bulk text-message plans; and how much Obama's campaign pays to send out ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Hillary Clinton will have her name placed in nomination at this month's Democratic National Convention in what presumptive nominee Barack Obama's campaign says is a "show of unity" designed to allow Clinton's supporters to have their voice heard before getting behind his campaign.Read the full story
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
When did the pantsuit become political armor for powerful women? Worn like Teflon, there seems to be a wildly held belief among these movers and shakers that the jeers and sexist jabs slide right off when you match your blazer and trouser. Wear it in beige and it's as good ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Clinton has continued to raise money and Obama has asked that his donors help her as well to reduce her debt. Clinton owed $5.3 million to her senior adviser and pollster Mark Penn, but aides to Clinton said she first intends to pay off small vendors owed money by the ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Those who questioned the propriety of Clinton's decision to appoint as chief campaign strategist Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller -- the premier public relations and lobbying shop in Washington -- have received further confirmation of their jaundiced views: the announcement that Burson Marsteller has signed up former Bush communications honcho ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I think Clinton's aggresive campaigning the last few months running up more than $20 million in debt was a hugely irresponsible act. If Obama decides to help her fund raise to pay off the debt, that's money that could have been spent in the general election against McCain. As she ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
The
Wall Street Journal reports
that people in both camps cited what several called "a deal-breaker" -- Bill Clinton may balk at releasing records of his business dealings and big donors to his presidential library.
Maureen Dowd wrote a fictional piece
for The Times on this a few weeks ago: "We need to know ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Earlier in the day it was reported that Clinton staffers were being urged by the campaign's finance department "to turn in their outstanding expense receipts by the end of the week," another sign that the run at the White House was nearing an end. In addition, Politico wrote that members ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Clinton cited that Robert Kennedy wasn't assassinated until June as a reason she is staying in the race for now. In other words, she is staying in the race just in case Obama is assassinated. This, just one week after Mike Huckabee joked to NRA conference attendees that someone aimed ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Here's my way: based on my read of NBC's delegate math, I think if the Clinton campaign won 100% of what they wanted on the Florida and Michigan dispute, Obama could still clinch the nomination -- even according to the most pro-Clinton math -- if 90 of the remaining 210-or-so ...
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