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    Pollster Mark Mellman, who is neutral, says that reality will keep the rhetoric in check. "Super delegates are concerned about keeping the party together ... The surest way to alienate them is to run a scorched-earth negative campaign against your opponent." Obama is criticizing Clinton's health care plan and pressing her to release tax returns that could shed light on Bill Clinton's business dealings. Full Article at USA Today
    Super delegates are concerned about keeping the party together ... The surest way to alienate them is to run a scorched-earth negative campaign against your opponent.
    SOURCE: USA Today 21 months ago
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Democrats play hardball -- with risks
  1. then we will make certain that she has to answer those same questions with respect to herself, her husband and her campaign.
    SOURCE: USA Today 21 months ago
  2. I, for one, do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president.
    SOURCE: USA Today 21 months ago
  3. Only a commander in chief has shouldered that burden. And you don't get that experience by being married to a commander in chief
    Susan E. Rice – Susan E. Rice SOURCE: USA Today 21 months ago
  4. They tried to slough off some of these attacks, ignore them, stay above them. It didn't work
    SOURCE: USA Today 21 months ago
  5. She runs the risk of reminding people that she's been a very polarizing figure.
    SOURCE: USA Today 21 months ago
  6. She seems to do well when people think something unfair is happening to her ... I do think they can overplay the victim hand.
    SOURCE: USA Today 21 months ago

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