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By Ben Smith
POLITICO - Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she’s happy for the chance to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — and she predicts that as many as half of the Democrats in the House could join her.
Just how many former Clinton supporters will vote for the former first lady during the symbolic first ballot is anybody’s guess, but each of them will be called upon to do so — whether they want to or not.
On Friday, the Obama campaign confirmed that the floor vote in Denver, intended to assuage Clinton supporters still stewing over her narrow loss, will be conducted as a state-by-state roll call. Under proposed convention bylaws, delegates would be forced to register their votes on a tally sheet with the convention secretary — the rules could be altered or suspended before the start of the convention.
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ABC NEWS - A deal has been brokered between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that will allow Clinton's name to be placed in nomination at next week's Democratic nominating convention, sources close to the Clinton camp told ABC News.
"Both sides agree that it is in the best interest of party unity and making sure that everyone's voice and vote is honored to make sure her name is put into nomination," a person close the negotiations said. "It's to honor everyone who worked so hard on both sides."
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While Senator Hillary Clinton campaigned for president by offering herself as a sure-handed, competent successor to President Bush, her campaign team of highly paid advisers was riven by back-biting, poor management, and conflicting strategies that contributed to her loss to Senator Barack Obama, according to an article in The Atlantic that was just released.
Senator Clinton also appeared prone to blowing up in anger privately, over negative news media coverage and at her own aides for not pressing political arguments against Mr. Obama more aggressively and for not dealing better with problems such as the political limbo of her delegates from the unofficial Florida and Michigan primaries, according to an article by Joshua Green of The Atlantic magazine that was posted tonight on its Web site.
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By Jake Tapper
ABC NEWS - Having obtained hundreds of internal emails and memos, Joshua Green of The Atlantic has a fascinating piece about the internal fighting at Hillary Clinton HQ.
Yes, they're still leaking to make each other look bad. Given the narrowness of Sen. Barack Obama's win over Sen. Hillary Clinton, one wonders what the outcome would have been had they channeled some of this energy into defeating Obama instead of one another.
But I digress.
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By MIKE ALLEN
POLITICO - Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), advised her to portray Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,” according to a forthcoming article in The Atlantic magazine.
The magazine reports Penn suggested getting much rougher with Obama in a memo on March 30, after her crucial wins in Texas and Ohio: “Does anyone believe that it is possible to win the nomination without, over these next two months, raising all these issues on him? … Won’t a single tape of [the Reverend Jeremiah] Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game ender?”
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