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By John Fritze and Josh Mitchell and John Fritze and Josh Mitchell,SUN REPORTERS | February 12, 2008
A day after she appeared at a rally with thousands of supporters, Sen. Hillary Clinton adopted a more subdued campaign approach yesterday, reaching out to workers at a White Marsh auto plant to talk about ways to boost the nation's economy. Clinton's visit to the General Motors Corp. transmission plant included a candid discussion about the economy at a time when the issue has taken center stage in the election, but it capped an abridged and sometimes troubled campaign that unfolded here as Sen. Barack Obama's momentum soared.
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By New York Times News Service | April 16, 2007
WASHINGTON -- As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has ramped up her presidential campaign, a number of fundraisers long associated with her and her husband have shifted their loyalties to Sen. Barack Obama. Among the biggest fundraisers for Obama's campaign are as many as a half-dozen former guests of the Clinton White House. At least two are close enough to the Clintons to have slept in the Lincoln bedroom. At minimum, a dozen were major fundraisers for President Clinton. At least four worked in the administration and one, James Rubin, is the son of a former Clinton Treasury secretary.
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By Paul West and Paul West,SUN REPORTER | April 9, 2007
DES MOINES, Iowa -- On his first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate, Rudolph W. Giuliani bragged that he would "win the caucus, and surprise everybody." His boast was directed at insiders, who were wondering if the New Yorker was planning to fly right past this Corn Belt state. His campaign manager had hinted that Giuliani might spend his time hunting delegates elsewhere, perhaps in larger, friendlier, coastal places, such as California, Florida, New Jersey and New York. Ever since Jimmy Carter went from nowhere to the White House by winning Iowa's kickoff caucuses, success in Iowa has been regarded as a key to gaining the presidency.
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By John McCormick, Mike Dorning and Jill Zuckman and John McCormick, Mike Dorning and Jill Zuckman,CHICAGO TRIBUNE | April 5, 2007
CHICAGO -- Sen. Barack Obama's announcement yesterday that he has raised nearly as much money as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this year, bringing in $25 million for his presidential bid from a wide array of contributors, shakes up the race and makes it clear that no Democrat will attain the sort of early dominance that the former first lady had been trying to establish. Clinton, who raised $26 million in January, February and March, might re-examine her strategy for fundraising and otherwise building support, which had been based on the idea that she was the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination.
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By Matthew Hay Brown and Matthew Hay Brown,Sun reporter | September 11, 2006
It was early in the campaign, as Kweisi Mfume remembers it, a private moment shortly after Benjamin L. Cardin joined him in the race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. It would be the first time in their long political careers that the old friends and collaborators would be running against each other. "I said to him and Myrna [Cardin's wife], `This is probably the most awkward thing you and I are going to do,'" Mfume recalled. "`But we've got to do it, now that you're in.'" They entered Congress together, the black City Council member from West Baltimore and the Jewish former speaker of the House of Delegates from Baltimore County.
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By MICHAEL OLESKER | September 30, 2005
The two of them, Tommy D'Alesandro III and Ted Venetoulis, only have about a thousand years of political experience between them, so what do I know? I say the biggest problem the Democratic Party has is keeping Martin O'Malley and Doug Duncan from kneecapping each other before one of them faces Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. for governor. D'Alesandro and Venetoulis say: Beautiful. Let the fight among Democrats begin. They were out there Wednesday in the big throng at Patterson Park as O'Malley officially announced he's running for governor while Duncan, from a bunker somewhere in Montgomery County, lobbed another grenade at O'Malley and the city of Baltimore.