Clinton suspends campaign, approves support for Obama

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency on Saturday and summoned supporters to use “our energy, our passion, our strength” to put Barack Obama in the White House. “I endorse him and throw my full support behind him,” said the former first lady, delivering the strong affirmation that her one-time [...]

Seat all delegates, Clinton lawyer urges

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s lawyer is set to make her case before a DNC panel Saturday. (CNN) — The chief lawyer for Sen. Hillary Clinton campaign said the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws panel is compelled to seat both delegations from Florida and Michigan fully and not award Sen. Barack Obama any delegates from Michigan. [...]

Clinton sorry for Kennedy remark

Mrs Clinton apologised for any offence her remarks may have caused US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has apologised for remarks about Robert Kennedy’s 1968 assassination as she defended her continuing nomination bid. Senator Clinton said she had been attempting to point out that previous campaigns had also continued into June. Democrat Robert Kennedy was running [...]

Feminists divided over Clinton and Obama

Feminists look to be divided over the two Democratic candidates. NEW YORK (AP) — No constituency is more eager to see a woman win the presidency than America’s feminists, yet — despite Hillary Rodham Clinton’s historic candidacy — the women’s movement finds itself wrenchingly divided over the Democratic race as it heads toward the finish. [...]

Indiana exit polls show Clinton winning rural, suburban vote

Sen. Hillary Clinton receives a helmet from driver Sarah Fisher at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Tuesday. INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton, who made a strong pitch to blue-collar workers, was pulling a majority of the votes in rural and suburban Indiana during Tuesday’s Democratic primary. With 87 percent of the vote recorded in [...]

Obama takes North Carolina, Clinton wins Indiana

Barack Obama declared himself within striking distance of the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday after trouncing Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, while she eked out a wafer-thin win in Indiana. Well after midnight, hours after the North Carolina result, the former first lady held on to take Indiana by a victory margin of 51 percent to [...]

Guide: Indiana primary could be ‘tiebreaker’

Sen. Hillary Clinton shares a Dairy Queen blizzard with Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana Sunday. (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama has called Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Indiana a potential “tiebreaker” that could end his protracted fight with Sen. Hillary Clinton. Polls will open at 6 a.m. ET in the eastern portion of the state and [...]

Obama and Clinton gird for new super Tuesday

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton faced a new day of destiny Tuesday with Democratic primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, as the climax approached in their gripping White House race. Opinion polls pointed to another messy draw on the biggest single day of voting left in the epic battle for the Democratic nomination, with Obama [...]

Clinton’s win still leaves her the underdog

WASHINGTON – Still the underdog in a contest that won’t quit, Hillary Rodham Clinton pulled off a feisty act of political survival in the Pennsylvania primary, defeating Barack Obama to keep her Democratic presidential hopes alive. The New York senator’s comfortable win sends the race on to North Carolina, where the flush-with-money Obama is favored; [...]

Clinton, Obama in key showdown

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) — The battle for the Democratic Party U.S. presidential nomination resumed Tuesday with voters in the key state of Pennsylvania going to the polls in a primary election with vital consequences for the two remaining candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Obama currently leads in the delegate count and the popular vote [...]