One of Sen. Hilary Clinton’s chief campaign strategist, Mark J. Penn, resigned last Sunday. This has been the second shake-up to the New York Senators campaign since a onetime front-runner decided to support her competitor for the Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Presidency, Sen. Barack Obama.
The ex-strategist resigned because of a conflict in interest. Penn, as a president of a giant PR Firm, Burson-Marsteller, met with
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It will be a fight indeed, the fight to fix the US’s struggling economy. President elect Obama has begun putting together his economic team who would form his cabinet and advisers as he prepares to take office January 20, 2009 in what would be hailed as the most expensive inaugural event ever dwarfing the budget of previous presidents. His team is working to boost the reach of the bailout proposal which is to be used by them to re-structure and fix the economy. Vice President Biden is also hard at work trying to lobby for the proposed additional money from the Federal government but they are in for a rough ride.
News of misspending of previous bailout funds are starting to surface and congress won’t make it easier this time for the new presidency. They are trying to get the money out of the banks and into the pockets of the ordinary American as fast as they could. Just hope it comes in time to make a difference for people are still losing jobs, homes and just about everything in what has been seen as the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression.
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People’s look upon for the Republican presidential nominee has worsen across-the-board since September, an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll showed Friday, with McCain losing ground in how favourably he’s seen and in a long list of personal merits voters seek in White House contenders.
Perceptions of Obama have enhanced or remained steady. Beyond views of the two rivals’ character traits, McCain faces another trouble — Obama is more trusted on the economy, the contest’s commanding issue, including a 15-percentage-point edge for better grasping how the raging financial crisis is upsetting people.
Obama’s image has been sturdy even as voters’ views of the overall campaign have tumbled downhill since September. The portion of people saying the contest excites them has sunk to 32 percent while those calling it frustrating have grown to 41 percent — and in both cases, six in 10 of those whose feelings have worsened are McCain backers.
Sen. Barack Obama was strongly criticized by Sen. John McCain because for turning down another senator’s suggestion of a joint trip to Iraq which he has not visited the country for a little more than two years. He is also targeted by McCain for not seizing opportunities to meet with Gen. Petraeus, the leader of the U.S. troops in Iraq. The last time Obama visited Iraq was in January of 2006, and the only time he met with the Gen. Petraeus was in a hearing. Later, McCain invited the Democratic presidential to accompany him on his upcoming trip, saying that it would be an “educational opportunity” for Sen. Obama. Obama’s spokesperson Bill Burton calls this move a “political stunt” after he declines the offer.
Sen. Barack Obama wins North Carolina and Sen. Hilary Clinton barely wins the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. It’s supposed to be a tie now, right?
Mr. Obama called North Carolina “a victory in a big state, in a swing state, in a state where we will compete to win if I am the Democratic nominee.”
But Mrs. Clinton said that taken together with her win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania, Indiana was the key tie-breaker and “tonight we’ve come from behind, we’ve broken the tie, and thanks to you, it’s full speed on to the White House.”
The win edges Obama over Clinton as he topped in North Carolina by 200,000 votes and a strong showing in the Indiana voters. So if he wins the presidential nomination, more people would vote for him over McCain.
After winning the Pennsylvania Primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton gets a $3.5 million fundraising haul literally overnight. The Senator sees this as an opportunity to convince other superdelagates in different states to choose her over her competitor for the Democratic Presidential Representative position, Sen. Barack Obama.
On the other side, Obama’s supporters are saying that he is more likely to win by adding states like Virginia, and that the Pen results won’t change his prospects for capturing the nomination. His campaign manager listed down 13 states wherein Obama would win: Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon and Michigan.
“We can make Montana competitive,” he said, while Mrs. Clinton is losing by double digits. “The best chance we’ll have to win the general election is to expand the playing field.”
Obama’s comments on Pennsylvanians have provided his opponents with some bullets to shoot his chances at being the Democrat Candidate for the Presidency.
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Sen. Hilary Clinton still needs to pay her ex-chief strategist, Mark J. Penn, around $2.5 Mil. The debt was still on the February campaign ledger.
According to the March report, despite paying more than $3 Mil for Penn’s polling firm that month the debt was still not paid. The money owed to him is more than a quarter of the campaign’s debt of $8.7 Mil. Hilary’s campaign sent out $10 Mil to Penn’s firm since last year. He will continue to receive paychecks as a n adviser and pollster for Hillary.
Although Hillary would like to distance herself from the embarrassing event with Penn, she still has a relationship with him because she continues to pay him until today.
Sen. Barack Obama raised more than $40 Million in March to become the Democrats presidential nominee.
The Washington Times say that the campaign has a record of almost 1.3 million donors. With 442,000 donors just last month sending an average of $96. Of last months donors, 218,000 were first-time contributors.
What made so many people to contribute? Barack Obamas campaign manager replies, “Today we’re seeing the American people’s extraordinary desire to change
