fivethirtyeight.com - 11/13/2008
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Color me skeptical about this : As voters left the polls on Election Day, many were asked how they would have voted if the election match-up were between Hillary Clinton and John McCain rather than Barack Obama and McCain. 52 percent said they would have backed the former Democratic candidate; ...
guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2008
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/14/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports: President-elect Barack Obama
met with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., yesterday to Chicago...
to discuss the possibility of the senator becoming Secretary of State. A source with knowledge of the transition process ...
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Details on Hillary-Barack Meeting
thewashingtonnote.com - 11/14/2008
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thewashingtonnote.com —
Four days ago I published and then quickly
"unpublished" this item on Hillary Clinton being in line...
for Secretary of State: I just received some surprising news -- like, really surprising. The deal is not done -- but at the moment -- ...
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Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State?
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How Hillary Would Have Done
TalkLeft —
This is a silly parlor game of course but I like Poblano's post about it so I will discuss it here: If America had woken up last Tuesday morning and magically found Hillary Clinton's name on the ballot in lieu of Barack Obama, might she have won by 11 points? Perhaps. She certainly proved herself to be an exceptionally compelling candidate, even if her execution and staffing decisions were sometimes wanting. But what would Clinton's numbers have looked like if she had actually endured ... you know ... a campaign? More . . . This is ...
Dreaming Is Free
Opinionator —
... . I think we can consider FiveThirtyEight.com’s Nat Silver unconvinced : If America had woken up last Tuesday morning and magically found Hillary Clinton’s name on the ballot in lieu of Barack Obama, might she have won by 11 points? Perhaps. She certainly proved herself to be an exceptionally compelling candidate, even if her execution and staffing decisions were sometimes wanting. But what would Clinton’s numbers have looked like if she had actually endured … you know … a campaign? Would she have handled the financial crisis with as much aplomb as Obama did? Probably. Would ...
No More Mister Nice Blog —
CLINTON VS. McCAIN: MORE REASONS WE CAN'T GUESS THE OUTCOME I'm as skeptical as Nate Silver is about this: As voters left the polls on Election Day, many were asked how they would have voted if the election match-up were between Hillary Clinton and John McCain rather than Barack Obama and McCain. 52 percent said they would have backed the former Democratic candidate; 41 percent would have voted for McCain, wider than Obama’s 7-point margin over McCain. Nate gives the basic reason: But what would Clinton's numbers have ...
Would Hillary have bested McCain in even greater numbers?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Some are suggesting it, Nate is skeptical: If America had woken up last Tuesday morning and magically found Hillary Clinton's name on the ballot in lieu of Barack Obama, might she have won by 11 points? Perhaps. She certainly proved herself to be an exceptionally compelling candidate, even if her execution and staffing decisions were sometimes wanting. But what would Clinton's numbers have looked like if she had actually endured ... you know ... a campaign? Would she have handled the financial crisis with as much aplomb as Obama did? Probably. Would she ...
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blogs.abcnews.com 11/14/2008 — ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, Jake Tapper and Z. Byron Wolf report: Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was President-elect Barack Obama’s leading rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is being considered for the job of secretary of state in the Obama ...
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motherjones.com 11/19/2008 — I was agnostic on the matter of Hillary Clinton's possible appointment as secretary of state--until last night.
If Barack Obama, the president-elect, wanted to pull a Team of Rivals play, that had seemed fine to me. And placing Clinton in Foggy ...
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themoderatevoice.com 11/15/2008 — Obama and Hillary met in Chicago yesterday and apparently discussed what role she might play in Obama’s administration. Secretary of State remains at the top of the rumour mill, and, as I put it earlier today, although I would prefer Kerry for ...
Report: Hillary Clinton Will Accept Obama Secretary Of State Job
themoderatevoice.com 11/18/2008 — Will New York Senator Hillary Clinton accept a reported job offer of Secretary of State from her onetime Democratic nomination rival President Elect Barack Obama? The British newspaper The Guardian says she is going to accept it — and a ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 11/14/2008 — SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON?.... In general, there's no real point in chasing down every rumor about who is or isn't going to be in Barack Obama's cabinet. Most of the scuttlebutt is baseless. That said, some reports are more credible,...
Don't Confirm Her!
spectator.org 12/4/2008 —
The idea of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State ought to make
conservatives tremble with foreboding. It is truly bizarre to see
so many on the right unquestioningly accepting a notion that just
a year ago would have been laughable, namely that ...
Latest on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
blogs.abcnews.com 11/18/2008 — ABC News has learned that serious progress has been made on the notion of a Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It is not yet a done deal, but sources say both President-elect Obama and Sen. Clinton are increasingly optimistic that...
Unbuilding the election: More exit-pollery —
First Read 11/13/2008
LATE BLOOMERS: Remember how some kept repeating the mantra that undecideds would break 70-30 for McCain? Among those who decided in the two weeks leading up to the election, they broke right down the middle, 48% for Obama, 48% for McCain. ...
Can the GOP win back Latino voters? —
CNN Political Ticker 11/13/2008
A new voter registers at a Democratic Party booth in September in Denver, Colorado.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Si se puede.
Translation: Yes we can.
It was a common phrase used by Barack Obama and John McCain on the campaign trail this year as they ...
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