Archive for April, 2007

Candidates Raise Millions, Fight Hard to Seem ‘Average’

By NITYA VENKATARAMAN
April 16, 2007 — If the 2008 presidential election was a reality show called “I’m Running for President,” this week’s episode would have been called “… and I’m Just Like You.”
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards whistled Dixie in his Seneca, S.C. birthplace, using small town beginnings to establish himself as a […]

Conservatives should abort Rudy’s bid

Call it the Rudy abortion test. Will Republicans and conservatives pass or fail?
While there obviously are pro-choice Republicans around, the GOP generally ranks as the pro-life party due to its presumed conservative roots. Conservatism sees intrinsic value in each individual - no matter the person’s stage of development - and defends his or her right […]

Obama leads field in fundraising

By Mike Dorning and John McCormick
Tribune staff reporters
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama raised more money from donors for his presidential primary campaign than any other candidate during the first three months of the year, but Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton maintained a financial advantage by transferring money left from her Senate re-election campaign last […]

GOP: Romney secures strong start in state

By THOMAS BEAUMONT
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has established an organizational advantage over his rival candidates in Iowa, according to GOP officials in some of the leadoff caucus state’s most populous counties.
But no one in the crowded Republican field has sparked the kind of buzz that early front-runners in past races have generated, […]

AP: Edwards says he’s strongest pick

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Presidential candidate John Edwards said Monday that he is the strongest general election candidate in the Democratic field because he’s won in the South and his chief rivals have not been tested there.
Edwards said that’s true of Democratic […]


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