AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton won the presidential endorsement of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees on Wednesday, an important union boost for the Democratic front-runner.
AP - In an Oct. 29 story about voter Edward Paul asking presidential hopeful Fred Thompson a question, The Associated Press incorrectly identified Paul’s employer as the Delta Dental Plans Association. He works for Northeast Delta Dental, a member company of the association.
Bloomberg - Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential frontrunner
Hillary Clinton won the endorsement of the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees, a 1.4 million-member
union.
AP - Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, back-to-back mayors of New York, use nearly identical sales pitches as they try market themselves to a nation often wary of city folks.
Rasmussen Reports - In the 2008 race for Virginia’s open U.S. Senate seat, a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Democrat Mark Warner leading Republican Jim Gilmore 53% to 37%. Both men are former Governors of Virginia and both considered running for their party’s 2008 Presidential nomination. Warner dropped out before the campaigning really began while Gilmore hung around long enough to participate in a few early GOP debates.
AP - In the City of Brotherly Love, there wasn’t much for a sister.
AP - Democrats Barack Obama and John Edwards sharply challenged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candor, consistency and judgment Tuesday in a televised debate that underscored her front-runner status two months before the first presidential primary votes.
Bloomberg - Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential frontrunner
Hillary Clinton won the endorsement of the country’s largest
public employees union, the 1.4 million-member American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Reuters - Two months before the first votes
are cast, no Republican presidential candidate has been able to
break loose from the crowded field, with Rudy Giuliani leading
nationally but facing an uncertain path to victory.
AFP - For the first time, Hillary Clinton woke after a 2008 presidential debate Wednesday roughed up by rivals finally showing the capacity to draw blood in the Democratic race for the White House.