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Posts Tagged ‘West Virginia’

Op-Ed Column of the Day

By Denis Campbell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Reflections

Victory Plan for Hillary (click to see full article on nyt.com)
By GAIL COLLINS/Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times Online
Published: May 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton scored a whopping victory in West Virginia. Trounced Barack Obama, who is consistently described as the inevitable presidential nominee.
Hard to know exactly what to do with this information.



Hillary’s W in WV – Yawn, Real Story is Red State Mississippi

By Denis Campbell • May 14th, 2008 • Category: Features

338,000 people voted to assign 26 delegates or .6% of total delegates in play and captured the media spotlight for a week as the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton steel cage match went another breathless round, while reddest of Republican states Mississippi, ignored the personal campaigning of Vice President Dick Cheney as the Democrat Travis Childers won [...]