Obamaâs Lead in Delegates Shifts Focus of Campaign
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Hillary Rodham Clintonâs advisers made it clear that they were prepared to take a number of potentially incendiary steps to build up her delegate count.
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Sen. Barack Obama easily won Democratic primaries Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday and reached out for another in the District of Columbia in a determined drive to erase Hillary Rodham Clinton's delegate lead in the party's presidential race. Obama's triumphs made it seven straight over Clinton, the former first lady, now struggling in a race she once commanded.
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For all the attention focused on the Super Tuesday primaries, some delegate-rich states will still be left after Feb 5. Some of the bigger ones:
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Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially-charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.
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Sen. Barack Obama won at least 11 delegates in South Carolina's Democratic primary, with 28 delegates still to be awarded. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won at least six delegates.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee swept all 36 delegates in the Kansas GOP caucuses Saturday. Sen. Barack Obama picked up Democratic delegates in three contests, narrowing the delegate gap with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Now, the Republican presidential nomination battle shifts from the typical tact of achieving inevitability to one where candidates work to amass the most delegates.
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Sen. John McCain led the Republican delegate race over Mitt Romney in early results on Super Tuesday, while Sen. Barack Obama was ahead of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Democrat Barack Obama hopes to rout Hillary Rodham Clinton in presidential primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia while Republican John McCain seeks to put more distance between himself and Mike Huckabee
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Facing another big round of contests Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton conducted the biggest shakeup of her campaign to date as Barack Obama tallied another win.
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BOARDMAN, Ohio  - For Democratic challenger John  Kerry, the presidential race has come down to three words --  focus, focus, focus. Even a hunting trip on Thursday was more  about votes than geese.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As the Democratic presidential contest grinds its way through primary states and caucuses, the quest for "superdelegates" â a fifth of the total number of delegates available in the nominating process â is picking up intensity.
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Last time ballots were cast in New Hampshire's presidential primary, hardly anyone in America knew the name Barack Obama. Now he is a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination hoping that momentum will propel him to become the first black president.
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Sen. Barack Obama defeated Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in caucuses in Nebraska and led in Washington on Saturday night, hoping to chip away at her delegate lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The two rivals also contested a Louisiana primary.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The battleground for the Democratic presidential nomination is shifting as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each push proposals to rejuvenate an economy that may be on the brink of recession.
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Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are competing for sizable if somewhat overshadowed delegate prizes this weekend as voters in four scattered states take their turn saying which one should be the Democratic presidential nominee.
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DURHAM, N.H., Feb. 12 -- The opening days of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign have displayed all the promise of his candidacy, with large crowds, pulsating energy and a charismatic leading man. But the Illinois Democrat faces several serious challenges if he hopes to convert potential into...