`Uncommitted’ voters could quiet some of Hillary Clinton’s thunder
November 30, 2007
At first glance, Hillary Rodham Clinton should easily win Michigan's Democratic primary, since no other top candidates are on the ballot.

But she faces an unusual opponent: Uncommitted.
If enough backers of the four candidates who aren't on the ballot mark Uncommitted when they vote January 15, it could take some of the luster off what's otherwise a certain Clinton victory.
The Maginot Line doesn’t always hold
November 30, 2007
BY WESLEY PRUDEN
There's a whiff of something like panic among the pollsters, consultants, acolytes and other ladies in waiting in the court of Hillary Clinton.
The one-time Lady Macbeth of Little Rock — before she scraped the Arkansas buckshot mud off her sturdy matronly pumps and became a New Yorker — looked invincible at Halloween and for a few weeks afterward but suddenly her campaign plane over Iowa looks a little like a broom and a prayer.
McCain promises to beat Hillary Clinton ‘like a drum’
November 30, 2007
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Friday that if he wins the party's nomination he will beat Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton "like a drum."
Asked if there were any Republicans he hoped to beat in the same fashion, the Arizona senator laughed and said, "I hope all of them."
Will Hillary Doom The Democrats?
November 30, 2007
Even with Barack Obama looking more and more competitive in the fast-approaching Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton remains the prohibitive favorite to win the 2008 Democratic nomination. But that hasn't quieted the grumbling - hell, downright speechifying - from some Democrats that if she were to become the nominee, Clinton would drag down Democratic chances in congressional and local elections in ways that neither of her main opponents (Obama and Senator John Edwards) ever could. "If Hillary comes to the state of Missouri, we can write it off," warned Missouri House Minority Whip Connie Johnson, an Edwards supporter, last October. "I'm not sure it would be fatal in Indiana, but she would be a drag," Democratic state Rep. Dave Crooks of nearby Indiana told the AP in August.
Clinton Office Hostage Situation In Rochester Appears To Be Over
November 30, 2007
A hostage situation at the Rochester headquarters of the Hillary Clinton campaign appears to be over.
A man was taken into custody after he kneeled on the ground outside the office and police placed handcuffs on him. Moments earlier, a young man believed to be the third and final hostage was released.
