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Select2008’s Daily News Fix for May 5, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama won the Democratic caucuses on Guam by seven votes over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, less than 0.2 percent of the vote in a spirited election that required an overnight hand count of the ballots, the Associated Press reported.

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Hillary Clinton has re-opened her sharp attack on Barack Obama’s position on guns, with a mailer in Indiana that seeks to raise questions about him with both supporters and opponents of gun rights.

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It is hard to run for office across this state, mostly because there is no single Indiana.
Politically, culturally, economically, linguistically, there are at least three Indianas

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Michelle Obama wants you to know she’s a mom first, political wife second.

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With the Democratic presidential race wide open, Mrs. Obama, a 44-year-old Princeton- and Harvard Law-educated hospital executive, is assuming the same dominant role in Sen. Obama’s public life that she has in his private life.

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This devoted mother of two young girls, vice-president of community and external affairs for University of Chicago Hospitals, active board member of several organizations, and let’s not forget, leading supporter of her husband

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday dismissed the “elite opinion” of economists who criticized her gas tax proposal, using a term that has dogged rival Barack Obama in recent weeks.

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The fuller portrait is complex. She’s worrying about her sons in the military, making sure her adopted Bangladeshi daughter is doing her homework and trying to stay healthy four years after a stroke.

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National Journal’s Linda Douglass spoke with Cindy McCain for the April 25 edition of “National Journal On Air.” This is a transcript of their conversation.

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Mrs. McCain limits her formal role in the campaign largely to retail politics, and has usually resisted taking policy positions, criticizing other candidates publicly or making comments about the current occupant of the White House.

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Tuesday it was the wives’ turn in the spotlight as Elizabeth Edwards, Cindy McCain, Michelle Obama, Ann Romney and Jeri Kehn Thompson talked about the rigors of the trail in what was billed as the first forum for spouses of the presidential candidates.

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Michelle Obama and the politics of candor.

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Bill Clinton is getting tough on Sen. Barack Obama today, explaining the differences between his wife and her opponent as he visits with voters from the front porches of homes in Lenoir, Newton and other North Carolina communties.

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Democrats inside and outside the Clinton campaign debated and in some cases bemoaned the degree to which former President Bill Clinton’s criticism of Senator Barack Obama last week had inflicted lasting damage on his wife’s presidential candidacy.

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Does the Clinton camp still see any realistic way she can deny Barack Obama the Democratic nomination without blowing up the party?

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As Barack gathers momentum, Michelle speaks candidly about America’s need for change, and a different kind of political marriage.

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Michelle has accepted the role of aspiring First Lady and the sometimes uncomfortable scrutiny that comes with it.

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