Newsweek has done a 7 part, very lengthy series of articles written from behind-the-scenes information gathered by their embedded reporters from within the various candidates’ campaigns. They were given great access but had to agree to not write about any of it until after Election Day. Below are links to the 7 chapters of this [...]

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AP reports that Clinton will report about $30 million in debt, $11 million of it to herself, and that she’ll seek Obama’s help in clearing it.
That’s a lot of money.
A few notes here: First, she’s under no personal obligation to pay it off. The debt belongs to her committee, not to her personally, and if [...]

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Barack Obama was campaigning last October in South Carolina when he got an urgent call from Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress who leads his campaign’s finance committee. About 200 of his biggest fund raisers were meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, and among them, near panic was setting in. Pritzker’s team had raised money faster than [...]

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AP: Obama Has Clinched The Nomination
The Associated Press weighs in with another big one (and with a bit of luck on the news orgs’ part, this one will turn out to be accurate)…
Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming [...]

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The media narrative isn’t always right, but it’s always fascinating to watch. Because political reporters tend to be pack animals, once a narrative gets out there, it’s tough to change. Yesterday, there was only one narrative: the Democratic race is over.
The consensus was swift and brutal. The tabloids had their own way of saying it [...]

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Screwup #1: Tell people to bet on an underdog horse in the Kentucky Derby that not only loses to a horse named “Big Brown,” but breaks both of its legs and has to be put down in front of everybody.
Hillary, God is trying to tell you something!
Screwup #2: Send out negative mailers in Indiana, [...]

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Last November, the Clinton campaign issued this following release:

The Clinton Campaign today announced the endorsement of former Democratic National Committee Chair Joe Andrew [...]
Andrew became the youngest DNC chair in party history when he took the reins in 1999, after five years as Indiana Democratic Party Chair. Under Andrew, the DNC rose out of debt, [...]

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