Barack Obama faced widespread condemnation on Friday from both right and left for reneging on a promise on election campaign financing.
Barack Obama is to send thousands of campaign volunteers across the US in an effort to create one of the most sophisticated political operations.
Barack Obama on Monday effectively conceded he would not win Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, but hinted he expected to do well enough to cast doubt on Hillary Clinton’s ability to stay in the race. Clinton, after a string of defeats, needs more than just victory to resuscitate her campaign.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday night set the seal on a new phase in Britain’s special relationship with the United States when he won ringing endorsements from the present and future generations of American leaders. US President George Bush hailed Brown as a ”good friend”.
On one floor is a bullet-scarred car used by American journalists in the Balkans. On another is the phone Rupert Murdoch used to make multibillion-dollar media deals. And in between there is one of the biggest remaining chunks of the Berlin Wall and the mangled remains of a communication tower from the 9/11 attack.
Neither man has secured his party’s nomination, but Barack Obama and John McCain have begun to lay down the battle lines for a possible confrontation in November’s presidential election. McCain, all but certain to lead the Republican ticket, is starting to plot election strategy, aides say.
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/ 25 February 2008
Hillary Clinton is switching to an aggressive new strategy against Barack Obama to revive her campaign in advance of next week’s Texas and Ohio primaries and to restore the morale of her flagging election team. The new approach resolves weeks of internal debate inside her camp about the best way of stopping Obama.
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/ 6 February 2008
The contest for the White House claimed its biggest casualties so far this week when John Edwards (right) and Rudy Giuliani pulled out, turning it into a two-horse race for both the Democrats and Republicans. The Democratic duo, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, immediately began to court Edwards for his endorsement and scramble for his supporters ahead of ”Super Tuesday”.
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/ 10 January 2008
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plunged straight into the next, nationwide stage of the battle for the Democratic nomination on Wednesday after Clinton’s stunning comeback in the New Hampshire primary, both embarking on a fresh round of campaign events and fundraising. Clinton, having regained frontrunner status, announced a series of rallies, political endorsements and campaign events across 14 states.
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/ 10 December 2007
Rick Wilkie, one of hundreds of volunteers canvassing for Barack Obama, recalls JFK’s inauguration speech with reverence. Wilkie, now 67, tramped kilometres through the thick snow in January 1961 to hear Kennedy. "On the way home, I was walking three feet off the ground," Wilkie said. Since that day, he has had no involvement in politics — until now.