Obama Victorious, Clinton on the Ropes, cancelling appearances
NY Times Coverage
Washington Post Coverage

Hillary Rodham Clinton ground out a gritty victory in the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday night, defeating Barack Obama and staving off elimination in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“Some counted me out and said to drop out,” the former first lady told supporters cheering her triumph in a state where she was outspent by […]

If I were more awake this morning I might try to make some witty remark or god knows even research some quotes from Cleese that could be adapted by Obama in delivering some speeches - instead I’m just going to link to the story here. With the support of funny men like Larry David and John […]

I’ve been tuned out of events this past week so a quick trawl through some news websites rendered the following stories.
Hillary’s Chief Strategist has resigned. The woman’s problems seem to forever be coming from within her own camp.
Obama asserting his patriotism.
The media revealing details of John McCain’s son on tour in Iraq - a detail […]

Perhaps the most interesting celebrity endorsement of the campaign to date (for me at least - I realise Oprah choosing race over gender has been a talking point also) has been Larry David’s support of Obama. Here he contributes an opinion piece to the Huff Post stating how he doesn’t want such a histronic woman, […]

Clinton wins in Ohio and Texas though the delegates numbers still are not entirely in her favour despite the consensus her campaign has been revitalised after 12 successive losses while McCain has it in the bag - Coverage here

So Roaming Rebel has already posted on this article from the Guardian, one drawing on the distinct set of similarities between the current race for the White House and the final two seasons of ‘The West Wing’ and indeed the article points out how the TV shows scribes in fact modeled the character of Matt […]

New York Times story revealing moves to keep an alleged romance between Mc Cain and a lobbyist under wraps.

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I’m following the Huffington Post coverage. I’ve linked here a page with a break down of results for the Democrat race and snippets of press coverage. Its pretty comprehenisve and well up-dated. The blog is worth some browsing.