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http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/ Good thing he made it back to the Hill to solve this crisis! Hopefully they’ll all recognize him. >hr />

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24885309/

MADISON, S.D. - She might be lacking in delegates, money and avenues to the Democratic nomination, but if nothing else, Hillary Rodham Clinton has clearly solidified her front-running position as the presidential candidate to have cocktails with.
After an event Wednesday night in Rapid City, Senator Clinton added a notch to her belt on the drinking-war [...]

I was going to write something snarky about how Clinton was blaming Obama for the RFK situation, but a guy from the the Houston Chronicle beat me to it.
Delusion reigns supreme in the Clinton camp these days. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any stranger, Terry McAuliffe appeared today on Fox News Sunday and [...]

If I am wrong, and she is still in the race after Memorial Day, I will renounce both my pastor and my kenyan father.

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f7a4a380-c4a4-4f84-b653-f252e8569915
Interesting feedback from Clinton staffers when they were asked what caused the campaign to implode so badly. It’s striking how many of the responses are about using old school dirty tricks and political games, i.e.:
“Clearly [Obama] was a phenomenon. He was tapping something really different than anyone had ever seen before. … Months and months [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/13/west.virginia.analysis/index.html
The only stat they don’t mention is that 87% of the people who voted for her said race was an issue. What an honorable way to ‘win’.

Clinton, as expected, trounced Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary. In the process, she underscored Obama’s weakness with blue-collar, working-class white voters — [...]