Hillary Clinton moved to suspend the roll call vote on the convention floor today, a symbolic gesture toward party unity. She released her delegates to Barack Obama earlier in the day. Some delegates continued to vote for her, however, until she interrupted the vote at 4:50 p.m. Eastern Time so that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi could call for Obama’s nomination.
Senator Hillary Clinton called for party unity last night at the Democratic National Convention, and it looks like her high profile feminist supporters are ready to give it to her. Rather than feed into what Feministing.com deemed “the oppression Olympics” during the primary, feminist leaders recognize that both women and minorities have had it tough in America, and because of that both Clinton’s and Obama’s runs for the White House are equally historic.
Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton last night from a campaign stop in Montana to thank her for her speech endorsing him, according to an Obama campaign spokesman. The presumptive Democratic nominee also spoke to Bill Clinton. “One can only imagine the…
For all the hoopla about embittered New York Senator Hillary Clinton hijacking the Democratic National Convention, the erstwhile presidential candidate deferred to Barack Obama during her 25 minute speech at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night.
“Barack Obama is my candidate,” said Clinton amid cheers. “And he must be our President.”
Hillary Clinton, and many of her supporters are throwing their weight behind Sen. Barack Obama Tuesday in Denver, but most of Clinton’s financial backers haven’t come into the presidential nominee’s fold, according to the New York Times.
With Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention just hours away, many of the New York senator’s committed feminist supporters are softening toward the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket.
While steadfast Clinton supporters are clamoring for her nomination on the floor of the convention tomorrow, there are indications that the disappointment and disillusionment of the past several months are slowly melting away as Clinton backers heed the call for party unity.
The downfall of Hillary Clinton‘s push for the presidency can be summed up in one word — Iowa.
We’ve heard so much about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John McCain that our eyes are rolling around in their sockets. And now Ralph Nader. Again. But what about Da Vid, who is also running for president – or…
Democracy breathed a sigh of relief with a new new report that finds that three-quarters of adults surveyed are more interested in the 2008 presidential election than four years ago. And what’s a study without some tea-leaf prognosticating that offers…
It was about as grassroots as one can get in Democratic politics at the Garfield County Democratic convention and assembly in Rifle on Saturday. Many of the delegates were first-time participants in Colorado’s caucus and convention system. The Beltway political…
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