The Fix: May 27, 2007 - June 2, 2007
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June 2, 2007; 8:15 PM ET |
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Clinton Lands Coveted Endorsement in Iowa
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (N.Y.) Iowa campaign received a nice boost today when Jerry Crawford threw his considerable weight behind her candidacy. "Hillary Clinton is ready to be president on Day One," said Crawford today. "She has the experience to...
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June 1, 2007; 12:57 PM ET |
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The Line: Battle for House Taking Shape
Slowly but surely the House playing field is starting to take shape. Democrats have scored early recruiting successes in Missouri's 6th District and Ohio's 16th, while Republicans got their men in Georgia's 8th District and California's 11th. But we're still...
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June 1, 2007; 8:00 AM ET |
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Dodd Gambles With a Global Warming Ad Buy
Give Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) this: He's not sitting back and waiting for his window of opportunity to open, he's trying to pry it open with his own two hands. Dodd will launch the third ad of his presidential campaign...
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May 31, 2007; 3:37 PM ET |
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McCain Goes on Offense on Immigration
No issue animates the Republican base like immigration. And, in the days following the announcement of a bipartisan deal on the issue, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) found himself on the receiving end of a series of body blows from his...
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May 31, 2007; 12:15 PM ET |
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The Endorsement Elite: Florida Democrats
The many changes in the presidential primary and caucus calendar have fundamentally reshaped how each party will pick its nominee -- changes that the candidates (and the media) are still trying to figure out. Today is the first in an...
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May 31, 2007; 9:34 AM ET |
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The 2008 Angle on the Zoellick Nomination
Regular readers know that the World Bank isn't typically written about in The Fix. But President George W. Bush's nomination of Robert Zoellick to replace Paul Wolfowitz at the bank has an interesting tie-in to the 2008 presidential campaign. Zoellick...
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May 30, 2007; 5:52 PM ET |
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Fred's In, Who's Hurt?
The news that former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) is going to run for president isn't terribly surprising. He's been moving in that direction for the last several months and in the past few weeks has hired both a campaign manager...
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May 30, 2007; 11:24 AM ET |
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Parsing the Polls: The Health Care Dilemma
All eyes were on Iowa yesterday where Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) became the latest Democratic presidential candidate to unveil a proposal to reform the healthcare system. The campaigns are already battling over the relative merits of the competitions' proposals --...
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May 30, 2007; 10:06 AM ET |
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Story Conference: The Book(s) on Hillary
The Fix's Chris Cillizza sits down with Post White House Correspondent Michael Abramowitz and National Political Correspondent Lois Romano to discuss two new books about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). The latest Story Conference also looks at whether the passage...
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May 29, 2007; 8:00 PM ET |
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Skip Iowa: Sound Strategy or Loser Talk?
Lost amid the massive media hubbub that followed the leak of this memo advising Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to skip the Iowa caucuses was a fundamental question: Is it the right strategy? Let's first revisit the fundamental premise of...
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May 29, 2007; 3:40 PM ET |
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Wag the Blog: Tape Everything?
We've written extensively on The Fix about the power of Markos Moulitsas and his Web site, Daily Kos. Markos has become an iconic figure in the progressive netroots community and has considerable influence over those online activists. So, we were...
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May 29, 2007; 8:22 AM ET |
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