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SF Gate
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, the 46-year-old freshman senator from Illinois, ended a 16-month political marathon Tuesday, clinching enough delegates to become the first African American presidential nominee of a major political party.
It was a momento..
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BBC News
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Senator Barack Obama says he is close to securing the Democratic Party's nomination to run in the US presidential election in November.
Mr Obama looks set to win a majority of "pledged" delegates, allocated in primary elections, although he is still sh..
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MSNBC
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Barack Obama will reach for a symbolic tipping point in the Oregon and Kentucky primaries Tuesday — a majority of pledged delegates offered in the Democratic presidential contest.
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed there was "no way that this is going to e..
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SF Gate
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Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Maine presidential caucuses Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state's Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings.
Democrats in 420 Maine..
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MSNBC
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Edwards amassed 56 national convention delegates, most of whom will be free to support either Obama or Clinton.
As expected, Edwards said he was suspending his campaign rather than ending it, but aides said that was simply legal terminology so that he..
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MSNBC
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Hillary Rodham Clinton finished Tuesday's Florida Democratic primary with more votes than any other Democrat, but the event drew no campaigning by any of her presidential rivals and awarded no delegates to the winner.
But Clinton promptly declared it a..
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Los Angeles Times
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AFTER 220 YEARS of faithful service, our Constitution needs repair. We mark the anniversary of the Philadelphia Convention on May 25, the date in 1787 when 29 delegates first met to write the Constitution. Yet Americans still do not elect their presidents..
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MSNBC
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Clinton appears to have edge in Pa.
Preprimary polls show Clinton with a lead in the state she must win to sustain her candidacy.
Overall, Obama has 1,646 delegates to 1,508 for Clinton in the Associated Press’ count, with 2,025 needed to clinch t..
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SF Gate
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Facing a backlash from supporters, Barack Obama's presidential campaign reversed course Thursday and reinstated hundreds of people to lists that will be used to choose California's delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Campaign manager David..
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CNN
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday the party would "absolutely seat" a Florida delegation when it meets in August in Colorado for the national convention. "It is my commitment, working with the Florida delegation and the cam..
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MSNBC
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It was the latest reminder of how an aggressive campaign has turned into a rear-guard action; he has been reduced to asking delegates to wait until Tuesday to see whether Mrs. Clinton wins Ohio and Texas before doing anything. “There is a real emphasis..
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BBC News
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Illinois Senator Barack Obama has won the Democratic caucus in Maine, defeating Hillary Clinton.
The Maine victory tops a weekend of gains by Mr Obama in the battle for the party's presidential nomination.
On Saturday, Mr Obama won polls in Louisiana,..
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MSNBC
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Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic Party's Maine caucuses on Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state's Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings.
With 70 pe..
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BBC News
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US Republican John McCain moved closer to his party's presidential nomination after Super Tuesday's polls, while the Democratic race stayed finely balanced.
Mr McCain won the big states of California and New York, although Mike Huckabee did better than..
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MSNBC
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Delegates are the key
For the Republicans, the key wasn't the number of states won but the number of delegates taken, and in nine of the states contested by Republicans on Tuesday, it was winner take all.
VideoMcCain working to prove himself
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CNN
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Sen. John McCain awoke Wednesday with a commanding lead in the race for Republican delegates while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney plans to meet with advisers to assess the future of his campaign. "Although I've never minded the role of the underdog..
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MSNBC
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The Republicans’ delegate selection rules are different. In 8 of the 21 Republican contests, the winner gets the delegates — no dividing up the spoils. What that means is that it is going to be easy for a candidate to build up a big delegate lead on T..
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MSNBC
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All along we have said this is a battle for delegates,” said Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, “and we are going to campaign for delegates in South Carolina and across the country.”
More from NYTimes.comClick links below:Republican f..
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BBC News
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Delegates from the world's top 16 polluting nations are meeting in Washington to discuss ways of tackling climate change.
The meeting was called by US President George Bush, who said he is looking for a show of leadership on climate change.
Represen..
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