Wow.  It's not news that Obama is targeting independent voters in his campaign, but he's now claiming that the Reagan/Bush administration was a better "agent for change" than the Clinton/Gore administration was.

Yesterday, Sen. Obama’s campaign held a conference call for reporters and bloggers to defend his record of voting present on choice issues. But the Obama campaign failed to address the fact that Sen. Obama voted present 129 times on a wide array of issues, including choice, privacy for victims of sexual assault, and school violence. In fact, the Obama campaign claimed that Sen. Obama’s present votes were part of a legislative strategy but failed to mention that Sen. Obama was the lone present vote on a number of key issues.

It's nice to see that cooler heads are prevailing.  This website has been littered with absolutely preposterous diaries the last several days, wherein so-called Obama "supporters" have posted inflammatory diaries and unnecessarily injected race into the Democratic primary.

After getting a free pass from the mainstream media until now, front-runner Barack Obama is finally getting vetted.  ABC News has aired the following story on Obama's relationship with indicted slumlord Tony Rezko:

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After a strong week of campaigning, Hillary Clinton has rocketed ahead to a 12-point lead over Barack Obama in New Hampshire, according to this morning's CNN/WMUR poll.

Hillary Clinton continues to maintain strong momentum and has widened her lead over Barack Obama to a whopping 16-point margin, according to Rasmussen's daily tracking poll.  Just less than a week ago, Obama had closed the gap to 8 points.

The Obama campaign has long maintained that Obama's drug use was only during his teenage years, but today Obama's campaign manager has announced that Obama used cocaine until he was 20 years old.

Obama just can't seem to accept the fact that his own health care plan doesn't cover every American.  Today on New Hampshire public radio, Obama claimed that his health care plan would "provide health care to everyone."

Once again, Barack Obama is stretching the truth -- to phrase it diplomatically -- in his desperate attempts to attack Hillary Clinton.

As Hillary Clinton continues to climb in the polls and pull away in the race for the Democratic nomination, the second-tier candidates have begun to grow desperate.  Both candidates have resorted to smears and attacks on Hillary, in a feeble attempt to stop her, instead of offering better ideas for the future of the country.

Once again, Hillary's opponents have failed to grasp that when they attack her over phoney "issues" that are trumped-up by the mainstream media, they only help her campaign.  The proof is in the latest Rasmussen tracking poll, which finds:

Tuesday night’s debate was not Hillary Clinton’s finest moment of the campaign season, but there has been little or no immediate damage to her standing in the national polls. In fact, if anything, support for Clinton has ticked up a bit since she stumbled on an answer to questions about drivers licenses for illegal aliens.

The Clinton campaign keeps getting stronger and stronger.  This afternoon's CNN poll gives her a whopping 30-percentage-point lead over Barack Obama, and for the first time, she's cleared the 50% mark.  A majority of Democrats want Hillary to be their nominee.

Time magazine is reporting that Hillary Clinton leads Obama in the cash-on-hand race, and her website provides even greater detail: she has $35M on hand for the primary, and $15M on hand for the general.

Wow, wow, wow.  Hillary Clinton's phenomenal 2-week stretch (resounding win in the New Hampshire debate, key endorsements, 100,000 new donors, and $27M for Q3) got even better today, as the latest WaPo/ABC poll gives her a whopping 33-point lead over fading Barack Obama.

Hillary's incredible week just keeps getting better.  First it was her resounding victory at last week's New Hampshire debate, where her response to Tim Russert's assertion that her position on interrogation techniques contradicted her husband's ("Well, he's not standing up here, is he?") became the defining moment of this primary season.  Then, the post-debate polls all showed her to be the clear winner.

Hillary appears to be getting a nice post-debate bounce.  According to today's daily tracking poll from Rasmussen, Hillary leads Obama by 22 points.

Once again, Barack Obama's fundraising prowess and his intense focus on rallying donors has put him in the advantage in the fundraising race.

According to this week's Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, Democratic voters in the critical early-primary states of Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire support Hillary Clinton's plan to end the war in Iraq over every other candidate.