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Giuliani Will Come Out As Pro-Choice

No more vacillating: Rudy will test GOP will by backing abortion rights

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani will cut the embarrassing equivocation and declare himself  in favor of abortion rights in the coming days, reports the New York Times. The GOP frontrunner, who's drawn flak for trying to explain away his support for abortion in his mayoral days, will risk alienating the conservative portion of...

Thompson Fails Reagan Test
Thompson Fails Reagan Test
May 7, 2007 11:40 AM CDT

Thompson Fails Reagan Test

Novak: Would-be candidate's 'ordinary' debut disappoints supporters

(Newser) - For a party in search of its last, best hope, Fred Thompson may turn out to be not so much savior as dud. The actor-turned-senator-turned-heir to the Reagan throne chose Orange County's conservative Lincoln Club for his first speech since the presidential hype began, and the reaction, writes Robert Novak,...

Richardson Trails Despite Better Resume

The problem is that he's not famous enough

(Newser) - Despite his considerable experience in foreign affairs and effective stewardships of one of the most diverse, though small, states in the country, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is not attracting much of a following, says Time blogger Karen Tumulty. Why? He’s not famous and doesn’t have enough famous...

Hill Calls For Repeal Of War Powers
Hill Calls For Repeal Of
War Powers
May 4, 2007 10:10 AM CDT

Hill Calls For Repeal Of War Powers

Hard-line stand may help her stake out leadership on war

(Newser) - Hillary wants a do-over on Iraq, calling on Congress to withdraw the war powers they gave Bush in 2002. In a clear bid to stake out her own hard-line anti-war territory, Clinton says Congress should repeal the authority granted Bush as of Oct. 11, the fifth anniversary of the vote....

Secret Service Guards Obama
Secret Service Guards Obama
May 3, 2007 3:58 PM CDT

Secret Service Guards Obama

Chertoff assigns detail to protect candidate at request of campaign

(Newser) - Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has authorized Secret Service protection for presidential candidate Barack Obama, CNN reports. A spokesman would not explain the reason for the assignment but said the secretary acted at the campaign's request. The Secret Service said the coverage is not in response to a specific threat,...

Obama Talks Tough to Blacks
Obama Talks Tough to Blacks
May 3, 2007 2:00 PM CDT

Obama Talks Tough to Blacks

Senator courts African-American vote with straight talk and tough love

(Newser) - Barack Obama has been bringing up issues in front of black audiences that he plays down with more diverse crowds—namely, pointed criticism of the black community. In pull-no-punches speeches, Obama slams low African-American voter turnout, worries that children who do well in school are scorned as "acting white,...

MySpace Flap Costs Obama
MySpace Flap Costs Obama
May 3, 2007 8:42 AM CDT

MySpace Flap Costs Obama

Campaign big-foots virtual volunteer; candidate speaks up

(Newser) - The glow of a computer screen morphed into a harsh spotlight on the Barack Obama campaign this week during a bitter dispute over control of a MySpace page bearing the senator's name. Obama reached out last night—over the phone, not in an email—to the disgruntled supporter who created...

Lunacy Could Be the Ticket For Rudy
Lunacy Could Be the Ticket For Rudy
May 1, 2007 11:21 AM CDT

Lunacy Could Be the Ticket For Rudy

So what if he was out of control as mayor? Only New Yorkers know that

(Newser) - Most Americans don't know Rudy Giuliani the way New Yorkers do: as an outlandish, manic, mean, and sometimes inspired mayor who ran the city in a style "much closer to that of a banana-republic potentate than to your average city administrator's," writes Michael Wolff. What Wolff wants to...

Getting Under Obama's Skin
Getting Under Obama's Skin
Apr 30, 2007 11:04 PM CDT

Getting Under Obama's Skin

A portrait of the candidate as a uniter in the Lincoln mold

(Newser) - Larissa MacFarquhar does an apt and artful deconstruction of Barack Obama's political persona in this week's New Yorker. Observing the candidate's oddly mild stump style, compared with the overachiever affect of most Democratic candidates, she notes that he is less professor than doctor, aiming not to whip up outrage but...

How Barack Found Jesus
How Barack Found Jesus
Apr 30, 2007 1:32 PM CDT

How Barack Found Jesus

Candidate chose Christianity over mom's humanism, dad's Islam

(Newser) - The Times retraces Barack Obama's peripatetic path to the Christianity he embraced 20 years ago and now invokes as he presents his presidential campaign in nothing short of biblical terms. Obama's mother was an anthropologist who schooled her son in the variety of religious experiences; his father's family in Kenya...

Giuliani Wants It Both Ways On Gays
Giuliani Wants
It Both Ways
On Gays
Apr 27, 2007 8:00 AM CDT

Giuliani Wants It Both Ways On Gays

Pro–civil union pol denounces NH bill as too close to marriage

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani is trying to tone down the gay-friendly stance he took as mayor of New York, criticizing New Hampshire's new civil unions bill because it "goes too far" toward gay marriage, which he opposes. As mayor, Giuliani signed a landmark domestic partnerships bill; on the campaign trail, he...

Dems Unite to Slam Iraq In First Debate

Candidates united to attack Bush for continuation of unpopular war

(Newser) - Eight Democrats butted heads last night in the first '08 debate, not so much with each other but with the president over the war in Iraq. Candidates at South Carolina State University  competed at panning the war for making the country less safe and Bush for ignoring the voters' will...

Barack Trumps Hillary in Battle for Primary Cash

It's nearly even after Round One, and Obama's made some unexpected friends

(Newser) - Barack topped Hill in the primary fundraising race, figures released yesterday showed, and New York mag knows why: Obama has not only won over some key Clinton-family loyalists, but culled a new generation of fortysomething donors with ample assets and Rolodexes to match. The result is Obama's $24.8 million...

Imus Affair Could Cost Obama
Imus Affair Could Cost Obama
Apr 11, 2007 10:11 AM CDT

Imus Affair Could Cost Obama

Stance on trash-talk seen as a litmus test for black community

(Newser) - The Don Imus meltdown could have fallout for Barack Obama, as critics note that he kept his mouth shut for five days—until after the suspension—before condemning the shock jock's crude racial jokes. The candidate's caution is signaling to some black leaders that he isn't going to take a...

Thompson's Record Doesn't Speak for Itself

Cash and charisma beat out ideas and achievements

(Newser) - Why is Tommy Thompson barely a blip on the presidential campaign radar screen when he has what is arguably the best resume for the job? The  HHS secretary and former governor has plenty of ideas and an impeccable record as a welfare reformer. But buzz and bucks are what count,...

McCain Makes The Ultimate Sacrifice

Photo op was political suicide that could hasten the end of war

(Newser) - Frank Rich predicts that John McCain's much-ridiculed photo op in Baghdad's Shorja market last weekend won't be remembered as  his Dukakis-in-the-Tank moment—the cluelessness that sank a candidacy—but as a turning pointing in hastening America's exit from Iraq. John McCain is no Michael Dukakis, and if he can't credibly...

Romney Scores Big In Stealth Campaign

How the candidate tied up some of the GOP's biggest donors

(Newser) - Of all the GOP presidential candidates competing to raise funds, Mitt Romney needs the money least, David Kirkpatrick ovserves in the Times. The founder of a giant private equity firm, he can afford to pay for the race himself. But he's pulled in the most—$20 million—precisely because he...

GOP Lags In Campaign Cash
GOP Lags In Campaign Cash
Apr 5, 2007 8:19 AM CDT

GOP Lags In Campaign Cash

Democrats top Republican donors for the first time in 30 years

(Newser) - Democratic presidential hopefuls have outperformed their GOP rivals at raising primary cash for the first time since 1976. In the first quarter the score was $79 mil to $51 mil, which seems portentous: Bob Dole's campaign manager confesses to the Times that the Dems "seem to have a lot...

Obama Raises $25 Million
Obama Raises $25 Million
Apr 4, 2007 4:31 PM CDT

Obama Raises $25 Million

Senator surprises pundits with grassroots results

(Newser) - Barack Obama has raised $25 million for his presidential bid, more than doubling his own projections for the quarter and falling just short of archrival Hillary Clinton’s $26 mil. Obama announced the figure to the Chicago Tribune today, revealing donations that have been far more diffuse than Clinton's—from...

Don't Count Your Black Votes Yet, Barack

Voters look beyond skin color to track record

(Newser) - Never mind his skin color—Barack Obama doesn't have a record that can guarantee black turnout, writes inquirer Harold Jackson. Prominent African American leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are still undecided, and Obama will have to court that constituency just like rival Hillary Clinton did.

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