Steven Stark writes is this week’s Boston Phoenix about how Hillary Clinton squandered her lead. The reasons? Hubris and mismanagement, plus the outrage over Bill’s verbal assaults on Obama now makes it difficult for the former first lady to go on the attack against the Illinois Senator.
Former president tells of lesson learned from dust-up with Obama.
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Kennedy, Kerry endorsements fail to deliver state for Obama, though Clinton’s margin of victory will determine distribution of delegates.
CNN projects Romney as winner in Bay State and McCain winning both Connecticut and Illinois. On the Democratic side, Obama is the projected winner of Illinois and Clinton takes Oklahoma.
WBUR’s Martha Bebinger reports on how a tight Democratic race has led to a split among the state’s Democratic leadership and among Democratic voters. And tight it is, with one Masschusetts poll suggesting the race is a statistical dead heat, though Clinton appears to have the lead in the majority of Super Tuesday states.
One the Republican side, Romney appears to have a significant lead over McCain in the Bay State, but lags in other Super Tuesday state with the possible exception of California, where some polls have it “too close to call.”
By most accounts debate last night between Obama and Clinton was a civil affair, free of the contrapuntal arcimony and barbs characteristic of the race at times. The New York Times even noted that it was “almost as if the battle was to see which of them could outnice the other.”
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As Super Tuesday inchers closer, WBUR political analysts Dan Payne and Todd Domke give us this update on what is at stake that day and how the various candidates are fairing.
Hillary’s once formidable lead in the national polls seems to have evaporated.
“Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama sparred Monday night at a Democratic debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Each accused the other of deliberately distorting the truth for political gain.”
The hightlight reel courtesy TPM.
Kerfluffle over Clinton’s MLK remarks starts to abate as Clinton and Obama camps sue for peace.
“Barack Obama in recent days has sprinted ahead in the endorsement derby against Hillary Rodham Clinton when it comes to a certain breed of Democrat—politicians who have won statewide in places where Republicans dominate presidential politics.”
“Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have clashed over remarks by Mrs Clinton on civil rights that she says were distorted by the Obama camp.”
Polls were showing a considerable lead for Obama, but the race remains tight with Clinton holding a small lead.
WBUR sat down with political analysts Dan Payne and Todd Domke to sort through the results, and look ahead to the New Hampshire primary.
On Point spoke to The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg and Washington Post’s Washington Dana Milbank about yesterday’s results and their predictions for the New Hampshire primaries.
Now that the Iowa caucus results are in, listen to what Iowa Democrat voters had to say prior to casting their votes and what the Iowa GOP voters thought the results would be.
