Surprise! Some Balanced Coverage of the Clinton Campaign!

Ironically, it was after Hillary Clinton’s 41-point landslide in West Virginia that the good old boys network in the media and a few codependent females like Ruth Marcus, Maureen Dowd, and Arianna Huffington, figured it was time for another all out effort to push the uppity Hillary out of the race, and their feverish drumbeat rapidly intensified.

When that didn’t work, the boys, along with their harping female allies, chose to ignore Hillary’s candidacy for several days and focus on the presumptuous Democratic nominee’s grandstanding displays of hubris – Obama grabbed the news coverage as he egotistically jumped on every comment from Bush or McCain, whether or not it was aimed at the self-described harbinger of “the new politics.”

Then Tuesday night the people of Kentucky stood up and shouted, “Hold your horses!” and the Bluegrass state, one week after West Virginia, delivered a second blowout for Hillary; this time she won with a margin of 35 points.

While Hillary was mopping the floor with Obama in Kentucky, the presumptuous one – the one we’ve all been waiting for – stepped forward in Iowa to tell an adoring crowd that he was closing in on the Democratic nomination.

Since then, the media miraculously began to notice that Hillary’s supporters are no longer willing to “sit down, shut up, and get with the program.” Consequently, quite a few examples of favorable or at least fair coverage of Hillary’s ongoing campaign have appeared at online news sources lately. Here are a few examples:

From the Caucus (NY Times), by Sarah Wheaton, Portrait of the Politico as a Young Man:

“Senator Barack Obama is usually the candidate known for stirring up youth enthusiasm. But Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has her own poster boy: Dalton Hatfield, who, as she reminded us during her victory speeches in both West Virginia and Kentucky, sold his bike and video games to donate more than $400 to her campaign.”

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From the Caucus (NY Times), by Steven Greenhouse, Union Leader Has Advice for Obama:

“Hillary Rodham Clinton’s biggest supporter in the labor movement has some pointed advice for Barack Obama.

“That supporter, Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said, ‘You have to reach out to the group we call the Reagan Democrats.”’

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NY Times, Seelye and Zeleny, Clinton Signals She May Carry Fight to Convention:

“CORAL GABLES, Fla. — A day after Senator Barack Obama gathered a majority of pledged delegates in the Democratic presidential nominating contest, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defiantly sent out new signals Wednesday that she might take her fight for the nomination all the way to the party’s convention in August.

“Mrs. Clinton stumped across South Florida, scene of the 2000 election debacle, pressing her case for including delegates from Florida and Michigan in the final delegate tally. On the trail and in interviews, she raised a new battle cry of determination, likening her struggle for these delegates to the nation’s historic struggles to free the slaves and grant women the right to vote.”

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Washington Post, by Shailagh Murray and Perry Bacon Jr., Obama, Clinton Use Florida Swing to Bolster Their Support:

“TAMPA, May 21 -- Sen. Barack Obama sought on Wednesday to win over general-election voters in the critical swing state of Florida, as rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to remain in the race until the state's invalidated primary results are counted, even if that means taking the fight to the Democratic National Convention in August.

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Washington Post, by Marie Cocco, The Not Clinton Excuse:

“A woman? Yes. But not that woman.

“It is the platitude of the moment, an automatic rejoinder to any suggestion that Hillary Clinton has struggled so desperately -- and so far unsuccessfully -- to grasp the Democratic presidential nomination in some measure because she is female.”

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Update: The Obama team is stealing headlines by revealing preliminary steps to select a running mate for the presumptuous nominee. However, Fox News rains on the Obama parade by mentioning Quinnipiac’s three battleground polls out today. In Pennsylvania, Clinton leads John McCain 50 percent to 37 percent while Obama leads McCain 46 percent to 40 percent (1,667 surveyed, 2.4 percent margin of error); in Ohio, Clinton leads McCain 48 percent to 41 percent while McCain leads Obama 44 percent to 40 percent (1,224 surveyed, 2.8 percent margin of error); in Florida, Clinton leads McCain 48 percent to 41 percent, while McCain leads Obama 45 percent to 41 percent (1,419 surveyed, 2.6 percent margin of error). “In the McCain-Obama matchups, 26 percent to 36 percent of Clinton supporters in each battleground state say they will switch to McCain if Obama is the nominee. Of Obama supporters, 10 percent to 18 percent say they would back McCain if Clinton’s the nominee.”