Day: May 3, 2008

Swing-state Democratic party chairman backs Obama. See also: Add-on superdelegate update

CARY, N.C. (AP) — Forget about policy speeches and wooing superdelegates. For Hillary Rodham Clinton, Saturday morning was devoted to chick chat – a panel discussion with a group of working moms on topics ranging from girl-on-girl violence to her daughter’s early dating years….

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – If Sen. Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman president in U.S. history, her daughter Chelsea will have an unusual distinction — she’ll be the first daughter to repeat the experience.

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush sought to assure Americans on Saturday that federal checks en route to them as part of a stimulus plan will help spur the ailing economy and pay for soaring gas and food prices.

HAGATNA, Guam (Reuters) – Counting in Guam’s Democratic primary stretched into Sunday after residents of the tiny U.S. territory turned out in record numbers to choose between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

MINSK (Reuters) – Eleven U.S. diplomats have left Belarus after a row with the tightly controlled former Soviet state over human rights and sanctions, an embassy representative said on Saturday.

No local issue untended. As Guam goes to the polls, Clinton offers fuller citizenship to its residents.

BUTTE, Alaska (AP) — For decades, Alaskans have contentedly called Ted Stevens senator, and Don Young congressman, their Republicans in far-off Washington….

As two presidential campaigns sweep through N.C., each is basing its central strategy on courting the polar political opposites within the state’s Democratic base.

DEDEDO, Guam (Reuters) – Democrats in the tiny tropical U.S. territory of Guam queued up on Saturday to vote in the latest presidential primary, relishing a rare opportunity to bask in the political spotlight.