November 16, 2008 by Sachin Seth  
Filed under Election Day 2008, Terra, The News

Advisers to both Sen. Hillary Clinton and President-elect Barack Obama say that the two are, in reality, not as far apart on foreign policy as it seemed during the primaries earlier this year, according to the International Herald Tribune.

August 19, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom  
Filed under Life, Politics, The Magazine

Dianne Haskett, Executive Director of Washington Contact, is available for media interviews to discuss her treatise of eight reasons Obama is choosing Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate. [...]

March 5, 2008 by Heidi Buchanan  
Filed under Life, Politics

In the “old days” a bunch of states held their primaries this week. This year, only Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island maintained their traditional dates in yesterday’s “not-so-Super-Tuesday.”
Barack Obama finished the night with one win, a disappointment to that camp as Hillary Clinton was expected by many to end her campaign if she suffered losses in Ohio [...]

February 7, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil  
Filed under Life, Politics

Former Massachusetts Governor, Republican Mitt Romney will suspend his campaign, effectively ending his run for president.
“I must now stand aside, for our party and our country,” Romney said during a speech in Washington Thursday.
The move means Senator John McCain has all but won the nomination.
Romney suffered a string of embarrassing third place defeats in the [...]

January 29, 2008 by Heidi Buchanan  
Filed under Features, Life, Politics

WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain, in a tight race, has won the all-or-nothing Republican primary in Florida.

Over the past few weeks, since his victories in both South Carolina and in New Hampshire, McCain has begun to emerge as something of a steamroller. Depending on how he fares on February 5, in what is as close to a national primary as possible, [..]

January 8, 2008 by Trevor Timm  
Filed under Features, Life, Politics

NASHUA, N.H. — Senator Hillary Clinton took an early lead and held on to defeat Senator Barack Obama.

January 7, 2008 by Heidi Buchanan  
Filed under Life, Politics

WASHINGTON — In what could become one of the most spectacular front-runner failures in presidential politics, rivaling that of Howard Dean in 2004 and Edward Muskie 1972, Hillary Clinton is now rumored to be considering whether or not to drop out of the election if she suffers a heavy loss in New Hampshire as she [...]

You can watch the whole CES keynote address here. Also Gizmodo has a better quality video than most.
Bill Gates put together a funny, fitting farewell video starring Matthew McConaughey, Brian Williams, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jay-Z, Bono, George Clooney, Al Gore and more.
In one scene, Gates cell phones Bono during a show and tries to [...]

January 4, 2008 by Heidi Buchanan  
Filed under Life, Politics

WASHINGTON — In recent conversations, many of my Democratic friends have begun camping out for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Now, I must say, being in Washington for the past year and half has somewhat, how do you put it, numbed me to politics. Presidential campaigns began rallying their troops nearly two years before [...]

January 3, 2008 by Heidi Buchanan  
Filed under Life, Politics

Moving forward from their victory in Iowa, both Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee face the challenge of translating their early success into momentum which will sustain their candidacies through the remainder of the primaries. [...]

January 3, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom  
Filed under Life, Politics

Out of nowhere, Mike Huckabee is predicted to win the Iowa Republican caucus, upsetting Mitt Romney and John McCain. Barack Obama is likely to win on the Democratic side, with most of the votes counted.[...]

June 1, 2007 by Patrick Boyle  
Filed under Life, Politics

So far, the media presentation of the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton candidacies has been one of opposites—the fresh newcomer versus the Washington elite; progressivism versus Democratic Leadership Council centrism; grassroots campaigning versus the biggest war chest in the game. But looking at the two Democratic frontrunners now shows how money, power and political clout [...]