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David Brooks has a warning for Barack Obama — fighting on Hillary Clinton’s terms won’t help. After unexpected losses in Ohio and especially Texas on Tuesday, Obama seems to have finally agreed that he needs to go negative against Hillary. He needs to show he can win a boxing match, but Brooks warns that the Clintons don’t play by Marquess de Queensbury rules: The Obama people seem to have persuaded themselves they can go on the attack, but in the right way. They can be tough and keep their virginity, too. But there are more than five long months between...

"Elections are short-term efforts," Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, told supporters in a Web video tonight. "Revolutions are long-term projects." Paul indicated that the 2008 presidential campaign portion of his revolution is over. An earlier version of this report indicated that Paul would "drop out" of the race. In the video, Paul did not use the words "drop out," opting instead to say the campaign is "winding down," and he encourages supporters to still cast votes for him. But he referred to his campaign in the past tense. "We are still in the early stages of bringing about the changes that...

FLOWER MOUND, Texas -- The cemetery next to the Flower Mound Presbyterian Church was a peaceful, well-kept place until Tuesday night. An overflow of voters trying to join the caucus next door ended up leaving muddy tire tracks through the cemetery. One vehicle's tire actually got stuck in a recently filled grave. Many voters parked on the shoulder of a gravel road winding through the cemetery, right next door to the church where the voting was taking place. One witness says motorists either didn't notice -- or didn't care -- they were parking just a few feet from buried bodies....

Evangelicals sent a strong message in Tuesday's Republican primaries in Texas and Ohio by voting overwhelmingly for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, while almost every other Republican demographic group chose Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), exit polls show. This was despite the fact McCain had already been dubbed the "presumptive nominee" of the Republican Party by the national media and political pundits. As predicted, Huckabee was soundly defeated in all four of Tuesday's primaries and caucuses and subsequently withdrew from the race. Some analysts say that if McCain expects to capture evangelical vote in November, he must tailor his approach toward...

Republican crossover voters apparently helped win the Democratic primary in Texas for Hillary Clinton — with one in every 10 Democratic votes came from Republicans. And they could have been heeding the call of top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh, who had been urging Republican listeners to vote for Hillary to prevent the Democrats from unifying around Obama and to keep the two candidates battling each other. “Hillary Clinton is back in the race, thanks in some small part to Republican voters mindlessly following the commands of radio entertainers and crossing party lines to vote for the candidate they view as...

Hillary Clinton ceased to be the Democratic front-runner weeks ago, humiliatingly enough for her formerly inevitable campaign. But it was only after her drubbing in the Wisconsin primary that she became an inconvenience, the superfluous woman of Democratic politics. Among elected Democrats and the press, there is a palpable impatience with Hillary’s continued presence in the race: Won’t this lady ever leave so we can consummate our love affair with Barack Obama? Hillary’s bulwark was to be the Democratic establishment, but here was the party’s immediate past presidential nominee, John Kerry, an Obama supporter, shooing her off the stage. On...

NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 News) ― Elections officials in Texas have been busy trying to figure out all the chaos surrounding last night's democratic caucuses. Initial reports indicate 4.2 million people voted yesterday - the largest primary turnout in state history. Early estimates indicate up to one million of them returned for the primary conventions for delegate selection. A total of 67 delegates were at stake. If this was indeed the rebirth of interest in the Democratic Party in North Texas, it came with growing pains. Reports came in from across North Texas that voters are experiencing long lines at...

Tuesday's results could mean chaos for DNCBy M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News Updated 11:26 p.m., March 4, 2008 There was more confusion than closure in Tuesday's presidential primaries, preserving the prospect of brutal chaos leading right up to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. **SNIP** After all, they're hoping the Democratic presidential contest remains a slow, bloody march to the floor of the Pepsi Center, one that damages the party's eventual nominee before the ultimate showdown with Republican Sen. John McCain. Before the votes were counted, Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, said he was rooting for Clinton...

The total of McCain and Huckleby votes in Ohio yesterday were approximately 955,000. The total of Obama and Clinton votes in Ohio yesterday were approximately 2,150,000. Clinton won by approximately only 227,000 votes. Where were the Republicans? Did at least 227,000 Republicans crossover yesterday and vote for Hillary? In Texas, Clinton won by approximately only 98,000 votes. There in Texas there was also a much smaller number of Republicans voting for McCain and Huckleby. It's sure very reasonable to think that at least 98,000 Republicans crossed over in Texas. Did the Republican voters keep Hillary in the race?

Barack Obama suffered a setback Tuesday in his efforts to drive rival Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but claimed the delegate math still is on his side. "We know this: No matter what happens tonight we have nearly the same delegate lead as we did this morning and we are on our way to winning this nomination," Obama told supporters after Clinton broke the Illinois senator's winning streak. Obama immediately made plans to press ahead, with visits planned in the coming days to Wyoming and Mississippi — the next two contests — and...

HILLARY: STAND BY SOME OTHER MANMarch 5, 2008 The mainstream media said she was finished, but our brave Hillary soldiered on to wallop B. Hussein Obama in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island Tuesday night. I don't know what the MSM is so upset about-- we let them pick the Republican nominee. Did they want to pick the Democratic nominee, too? Not only that, but after some toothsome appearances on various madcap comedy shows this past week -- "Saturday Night Live," "Late Night With David Letterman," "Hardball With Chris Matthews" -- Hillary's "likability" quotient is soaring! According to the latest CNN/CBS...

By winning Ohio decisively and squeaking by in Texas, Hillary Clinton managed to resuscitate her campaign if only in the sense that she buys herself more time. Even after her victories in Rhode Island, Texas and Ohio, she still trails in the pledged delegate count and few would dispute the fact that, even though her campaign is alive, it is still very much on life-support. But make no mistake, by her victory speech in Ohio late last night, Hillary made it clear that she is not going anywhere anytime soon. If she has no prospect of ever winning a sufficient...

Hispanics from El Paso to Brownsville turned out in record numbers for Sen. Hillary Clinton's do-or-die Texas presidential primary Tuesday, offsetting big-city supporters of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. Late Tuesday, Clinton was declared the winner with 51 percent of the vote to Obama's 47 percent. Still, the delegate count was up in the air. "You can credit Latinos for saving Hillary," said Antonio Gonzalez, president of the William C. Velasquez Institute, a nonpartisan organization that researches Hispanic political participation. "Consistent with her pattern, she held her base — at least we know she held the Latino base." That and a...

Senator Clinton it seems has the winning edge in both Ohio and Texas, as well as Rhode island whereas Senator Obama won in Vermont. And though this win is symbolic psychologically for Mrs. Clinton, Barack Obama says "We know this — no matter what happens tonight, we have nearly the same delegate lead we had this morning and we are on the way to winning this nomination..." His unprecedented lopsided winning streak continued when Obama won the Vermont primaries, his 12th. Mrs. Clinton however made a comeback with a 58 per cent advantage in Ohio against 40 per cent...

First the good news: A record number of voters showed up in Bexar County for the presidential primaries. Now the bad news: Many of those voters showed up at the last minute. Reports of long lines at polling sites began trickling into the Bexar County Elections Department late Tuesday evening. At Rhodes Elementary, more than 200 people were still waiting to vote by 7 p.m. It took hours for the lines to finally disappear. "There are a lot of elderly people here who haven't eaten, who are on medication, and there's really no place for them to sit," said Eliza...

Hillary Clinton stopped Barack Obama’s winning streak cold last night by winning three out of four primaries, including a big win in Ohio and a surprising win in Texas. The momentm from these victories will undoubtedly propel her all the way to Pennsylvania, and almost certainly to the convention in Denver. But did last night really affect the delegate chase at all? The Washington Post analysis sounds pessimistic: Critical to Clinton’s prospect of victory are the superdelegates, the nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who can vote any way they choose. Her campaign envisions what aides call a “buyer’s...

Even if Hillary Clinton wins tonight's primaries, she still has an increasingly difficult road ahead. Going into this evening's results, Clinton needs an average margin of victory of 16 points in every remaining primary to tie Obama's pledged delegate total. If Clinton wins by fewer than 16 points, then her job only gets tougher going forward. According to our delegate calculator, two 10-point wins in Ohio and Texas would inflate her margin-of-victory target to 20 points, which will be a hard margin to achieve once Obama visits Pennsylvania and North Carolina (the two richest states remaining, delegate-wise). But there is...

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Obama, totally not saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Photo: Getty Images Barack Obama must be wondering how the worst press he’s received practically all campaign season came down just before today’s primaries — his chance to close the deal. He can look inward for answers. The big story, of course, is the meeting an Obama advisor, Austin Goolsbee, had with a Canadian official about NAFTA. After Canadian TV reported that Goolsbee had assured the Canadian official that basically all Obama’s tough talk on NAFTA was political maneuvering, the Obama campaign denied the meeting ever took place. Then, on cue,...