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You Probably Didn’t Catch Measles at The Super Bowl

If you were among the crowds in Indianapolis rooting for the New England Patriots or New York Giants last Sunday, there's a chance you received more than a beer and barbeque hangover or big foam finger for your troubles: health officials in Indiana report at least two cases of measles in the Super Bowl village.

While the patients who came down with measles didn't go to the game, they did pass through Super Bowl village along with 200,000 others. Since measles is highly communicable, Indiana officials elected to alert state health departments across the country. Read More

By Steve Kornacki 5/07/08 1:50am

The End of the Clinton Strategy

Tuesday was a decisive night for Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton won Indiana, barely, giving her as many states on the day as Obama got.

But the result made clear one thing: It doesn't matter anymore.

Ever since she fell hopelessly behind Obama in the pledged-delegate and popular-vote counts during a string of February defeats, Clinton has clung to Read More

By Jason Horowitz 5/07/08 1:23am

In Victory Speech, Obama Looks Forward to General Election

Barack Obama's campaign just released the remarks he's prepared for tonight's primary night rally in Raleigh, N.C., in which he said his campaign stands "less than two hundred delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination ...."

He called Hillary Clinton a "formidable opponent," and congratulated her for her victory in Indiana, and expressed confidence that the Read More

By Jason Horowitz 5/07/08 12:16am

Obama Supporters Finally Get to the Fun Part

Barack Obama is winning. North Carolina is his, comfortably, and his delegate-count continues to climb ever closer to a requisite primary-ending majority.

So why has his campaign felt like a long march over broken glass?

“It is painful to watch,” said an influential Obama supporter and delegate in an interview the day before the North Carolina and Read More

By Steve Kornacki 5/06/08 2:53am

The Stakes in North Carolina and Indiana

A pair of outright wins by Hillary Clinton on Tuesday could prompt immediate chaos, with already-jittery Democrats questioning anew Barack Obama’s general election viability and Clinton potentially moving into position to run the table in the remaining contests and to reverse some of the crucial metrics that have favored Obama and sustained his perceived inevitability Read More

By Jason Horowitz 5/05/08 2:01am

Barack Obama, Family Guy

INDIANAPOLIS—Barack Obama has become a family values candidate.

Wracked by questions over his beliefs, patriotism and values following the most tumultuous passage of his campaign, Mr. Obama has sought solace – and a new story line – in family.

Over the past few days, Mr. Obama steeped his speeches in talk about his grandparents and parents Read More

By Jason Horowitz 5/03/08 6:50pm

Obama’s Pocketbook Speech

INDIANAPOLIS—Barack Obama continued his assault on John McCain and Hillary Clinton over their proposed gas tax holiday today during a speech his campaign billed as his plan to fight for working families and against special interests. Responding to a new advertisement from Clinton about the gas tax, Obama, speaking in a high school here, said,“Keep Read More

By Steve Kornacki 5/02/08 2:12pm

This Time, Expectations Work for Obama

So far, 2008 has been the year of artificial momentum and warped expectations, and Hillary Clinton has been the beneficiary.

In contest after contest this primary season, we have seen the illusion of momentum, created by the spillover effect from recent results and whatever the dominant media narrative of the moment happens to be. So, for Read More

By Jason Horowitz 5/01/08 9:05pm

Obama Discusses Livestock, Gas

SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Barack Obama is doing his own listening tour in Indiana.

“What I want to do is spend more time listening than talking,” said Obama at a small event at the fairgrounds here, where he discussed farming policies, subsidies and crop-dumping with a few dozen voters sitting around on bales of hay. Obama Read More

By Jason Horowitz 5/01/08 6:02pm

Obama Low-Key in Indiana

SOUTH BEND -- Here's the scene in a barn at a fairgrounds where Barack Obama will be speaking this afternoon--another example of his more intimate approach to campaigning he has favored of late.

A few dozen voters are sitting in a ring around bales of hay, in the middle of which is a small white Read More

By Staff 1/22/07 5:14pm

Rich Guy Spends $30 Million on a Park Avenue Duplex Penthouse.

NOT FINISHED DUPLEX PENTHOUSE IN CONTRACT FOR $30 MILLION AT 823 PARK AVENUE CONTRACTS FOR PROPERTY TOTAL $72 MILLION TO DATE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - New York, NY, January 22, 2006 - Property Markets Group (PMG) announces the 7,500 square foot duplex penthouse at 823 Park Avenue (at 75th Street) is in contract for $30 Read More

By Staff 11/07/06 8:43pm

Hostettler is cooked

When even Fox News declares a Republican dead, you can take it to the bank the race is over. And so: R.I.P. John Hostettler. The Indiana Republican is now officially the first Republican Congressional incumbent to lose. His was a a top-target seat for the Democrats, but the apparent size of Democrat Brad Ellsworth's Read More


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