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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By Josh Marshall
I mentioned earlier today that it was quite a thing to see John McCain denouncing Barack Obama for breaking his word on public financing when McCain himself is at this moment breaking the law in continuing to spend over the spending limits he promised to abide by through the primary season in exchange [...]

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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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by Hunter of DailyKOS
Forget the spin: the race is where it is. Clinton won Pennsylvania. The overall delegate margin has barely budged, however, and it is now even more assured that there is no reasonable scenario where Clinton can pull out a primary win absent intervention by the superdelegates.
I was never a Clinton fan, in [...]

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In The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama tells an amusing story about his first tour through downstate Illinois, when he had the audacity to order Dijon mustard on his cheeseburger at a TGI Friday’s. His political aide hastily informed the waitress that Obama didn’t want Dijon at all, and thrust a yellow bottle of ordinary-American [...]

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