By PATRICK HEALY Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is entering the Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday with one of the most pugnacious political messages

Sen. Hillary Clinton today swung through the tiny Ohio River town of Maysville, Ky., which has seen its fair share of big name visitors in recent months.
Aside from being the hometown of former Miss America Heather French Henry, this city of 9,000 also boasts itself as the birthplace of singer Rosemary Clooney, which also makes it an ancestral home of sorts to Clooneys nephew, Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney.
red comments aimed at undercutting Sen. Barack Obama, who is poised to inch closer to the nomination following Tuesdays primaries in Kentucky and Oregon.

(RTTNews) - Although Barack Obama continues to pull ahead in the Democratic primary like Big Brown in the final stretch of the Preakness over the weekend,

WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama will reach a significant milestone Tuesday as he marches toward the Democratic nomination for president — a majority of the pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses.
Obama will still be short of the overall number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination, unless he were to suddenly receive an avalanche of endorsements from the party and elected officials known as superdelegates. But the Illinois senator's campaign is touting the delegate milestone as a big step in defeating his rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
sement of Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia Monday, less than a week after Clinton overwhelmingly won the state's primary. Byrd is the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate.

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by Aaron Bruns PRESTONBURG, Ken - Hillary Clinton relied on help from an unusual source in making her electoral argument today — citing analylsis from GOP mastermind Karl Rove to claim that she’s the stronger candidate to take on John McCain in the Fall.
“There’s been a lot of analysis about which of us is stronger to win against Senator McCain, and I believe I am the stronger candidate,” she said outside the home of the Clark family in this heavily Democratic county. “Just today, I found some curious support for that position when one of the TV networks released an analysis done by of all people Karl Rove saying that I was the stronger candidate.
she said Michigan and

While Hillary Clinton spent the day traveling across Kentucky to get last minute votes, her opponent Barack Obama spent the day in Oregon where tomorrow is also primary day. It appears Obama has already turned his attention away from Clinton and Kentucky and is focusing on November and John McCain.
At a rally in Oregon Obama commented on McCain losing several staffers due to lobby controversies. Senator Clinton fired back saying Obama is getting ahead of himself by worrying more about McCain than her. A massive crowd of nearly 80 thousand people showed up to catch a glimpse of Obama today he called the turnout amazing saying "This is the most spectacular setting in the most spectacular crowd we've had this whole campaign....it's unbelievable."
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By Diane Smith The battle for the Democratic Party nomination is “nowhere near over” as the two presidential hopefuls are exchanging jabs.

By Jim Malone Presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama debated the wisdom of dealing directly with Iran Monday. The exchange on foreign policy

May 19, 2008 12:29 PM (4 mins ago) AP WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Barack Obama warned Republicans on Monday to steer clear of attacks on his wife, while rival Hillary Rodham Clinton reminded the Democratic front-runner that she is still in the race for the party's nomination.
Clinton and Obama are facing off in Kentucky and Oregon on Tuesday, and have several more primaries in the prolonged race. But it is mathematically unlikely that Clinton can pull ahead in the delegate count, and Obama has increasingly been ignoring her and positioning himself in opposition to certain Republican nominee John McCain.
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"Why is it that the more Hillary loses, the better I like her?" This was the opening line of Susan Cheever's radio commentary last week on NPR. You'd have thought, or at least hoped, that after seventeen months of Senator Clinton running for the White House, the disconnect between men and the women who support Clinton would have gotten smaller. No such luck. Listening to Cheever, I decided that as the campaign has come down to these very last few primaries, and Clinton's shot at winning has traveled to the dark side of remote, the disconnect has grown even larger.
Cheever says that she'd always felt an affinity for Clinton because "she was never the pretty, simpering, long-legged

By Ellen Wulfhorst MAYSVILLE, Ky., May 19 (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton had a warning on Monday for rival Barack Obama, who is on the verge of claiming the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination: Not so fast.
"This is nowhere near over," Clinton said at a rally in Maysville, Kentucky, pressing ahead with her long shot bid for the White House even as Obama focuses on November's general election match-up with Republican John McCain.
en trending his way heavily in recent weeks, should back him since he won the most delegates in state voting.

By Brian Knowlton WASHINGTON: Senator Barack Obama edged away Monday from declaring outright victory as soon as Tuesday in his race against Senator Hillary

By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Hillary Clinton appears likely to cruise to victory in Kentucky's Democratic primary on Tuesday, but Barack Obama is heavily favored to win in Oregon, making for another split-result election day for the rival Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Obama is claiming that a victory in Oregon, where 52 delegates are at stake, will put him "over the top" -- meaning the Illinois senator will claim the majority of pledged delegates needed for the party's nomination. But Clinton is challenging that, saying that either she or Obama will need to wait until results from Florida and Michigan count toward the delegate tally.

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By Brian Knowlton and Larry Rohter Senator Barack Obama is shifting quickly from primary-season tactics to girding for the general-election fight against

By Kenneth T. Walsh Barack Obama is ending the latest phase of his presidential campaign on a high note. His rally before an estimated 75000 fans at a

The Democrat calls 'low class' an online ad spotlighting Michelle Obama's comment that she was proud of her country for the first time in her adult life.

Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton is in Kentucky on May 19 as she continues her state-wide tour after a stop in Bowling Green yesterday.
Despite her efforts, Senator Barack Obama's lead is expanding.
ed to show her win in West Virginia was not a fluke, Obama is determined to get beyond the primary race to the general election, announcing that he became the front-runner to beat.

By John M. Broder MAYSVILLE, Ky. – Adding a new mathematical twist to her case for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

(CNN) -- New polls show Sen. Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead going into the Kentucky primary, while Sen. Barack Obama holds a comfortable one in