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Sanders: Chelsea 'Flat Wrong' on My Health Plan

Senator says Clinton daughter 'didn't read the plan' he has for Americans

(Newser) - As the race for the Democratic nomination between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton heats up , the former first daughter is stumping for her mom—and saying things that Sanders says are "absolutely wrong," per CNN . Chelsea Clinton spoke at a New Hampshire campaign rally Tuesday, the Hill reports,...

Black Lives Matter Activist Roughed Up at Trump Rally

Says he was punched, kicked after Donald said, 'Get him the hell out of here'

(Newser) - A Black Lives Matter protester locked horns with Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday, and neither one of them emerged very happy from the encounter, reports the Washington Post . Mercutio Southall Jr., who the Post describes as a well-known activist and the founder of the...

Gunmen Kidnap Ex-Pakistan PM's Son at Election Rally

Guard killed, 5 wounded in gun attack

(Newser) - Gunmen have attacked an election rally in Pakistan's southern Punjab province and abducted the son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistani officials say. Unknown attackers stormed the rally in the town of Multan, opened fire, and seized Ali Haider Gilani today, a police official says. "One...

Obama Gets Weepy at Final Rally

Romney holds last event in NH, then announces 2 more

(Newser) - President Obama returned to Iowa for what he says will be the final campaign event of his political career. The president, sharing a stage with Michelle, shed a few tears as he reminisced about his 2008 campaign and didn't mention Mitt Romney once in his 29-minute speech, Politico reports....

Burka-Clad Heckler Booted From Obama Rally

Secret Service probing disturbance at VCU

(Newser) - The Secret Service is investigating a weird disturbance at a President Obama campaign stop over the weekend. Reporters at the Virginia Commonwealth University rally saw a woman wearing a burka adorned with US military pins and carrying what appeared to be a Koran hauled out of the rally by police...

AIDS Activists Heckle Obama at Rally

He tells them to take their beef to 'the other side'

(Newser) - Hecklers interrupted President Obama's latest stump speech in Bridgeport, Conn., for three to four minutes, chanting slogans and complaining that he was not doing enough to address the global AIDS epidemic. Obama seemed irritated by the protesters' antics, telling them, "You've been appearing at every rally we've been doing....

Bill Clinton: Let Obama Finish the Job
 Bill Clinton: 
 Let Obama 
 Finish the Job  
BIG GUNS COME OUT
Oct 16, 2010 8:50 AM CDT

Bill Clinton: Let Obama Finish the Job

Stumps for one-time nemesis Jerry Brown, rallies Dems

(Newser) - Bill Clinton gave dazed Democrats a swift kick last night, telling California voters to get out the vote, lest they commit "malpractice on your own future." Stumping for onetime nemesis and would-be governor Jerry Brown, the former president told a UCLA rally to give President Obama and Democrats...

Limbaugh 'Handpicked' Hoffman: Biden
 Limbaugh 
 'Handpicked' 
 Hoffman: Biden 
NY-23 circus
Nov 2, 2009 2:55 PM CST

Limbaugh 'Handpicked' Hoffman: Biden

Limbaugh: VP should 'reacquaint himself' with Constitution

(Newser) - Joe Biden took aim at a variety of GOP and conservative opponents today at a rally for New York congressional candidate Bill Owens. The VP said Conservative candidate Douglas Hoffman was “handpicked” by Rush Limbaugh, adding that Hoffman is in line with conservatives like Sarah Palin who “will...

Dems Plan Rallies to Counteract Ugly Town Halls

Health care reform advocates look to Obama '08 playbook

(Newser) - Obama supporters will try to recapture the energy of his presidential campaign with a two-week health care reform push featuring a bus tour, rallies, and more than 2,000 house parties. Organizing for America, the network of Obama supporters now run by the Democratic National Committee, aims to show lawmakers...

Campaigns Make Florida Election-Eve Battleground

Obama reprises out-of-touch criticism of McCain, who hits back on economics

(Newser) - Both presidential candidates were on the trail today in Florida, trading jabs from opposite ends of the state, the Miami Herald reports. Barack Obama spoke about the economy in Jacksonville, in the north, the same city where John McCain said the “fundamentals of the economy are strong.” McCain...

McCain Ditches Town Halls for Larger Crowds

Fractious Q&As and need for 'volume' forces shift to big rallies

(Newser) - John McCain hasn’t held one of his trademark town hall meetings since early October, and it’s not only because they started turning nasty, Politico reports. Though the question-and-answer format revealed some distressing misconceptions in the McCain faithful, town halls also are much smaller than more spectacular rallies. “...

New Video Hit: 'Where Are You, Joe?'

McCain's guest nowhere to be found during first Ohio rally

(Newser) - The image of John McCain looking for a nowhere-to-be-found Joe the Plumber has surfaced on YouTube and is being forwarded by gleeful Democrats, notes MSNBC's First Read blog. “Joe’s with us here," McCain said at an Ohio rally yesterday. "Joe, where are you?," he asked,...

Two Distinct Americas Emerge on Campaign Trail

Party faithful split on politics but united in distrust

(Newser) - Vastly different crowds appear at the rallies of the candidates who started their campaigns calling for bipartisan unity, a roving New York Times reporter finds. Republican rallygoers shout to a country-pop soundtrack; the Democratic faithful dance to folk and Motown. Flag pins, pompoms, and patriotic songs define GOP gatherings, while...

Joe Six-Packs Drink to Palin
 Joe Six-Packs Drink to Palin 
Oct 19, 2008 7:04 AM CDT

Joe Six-Packs Drink to Palin

VP candidate's rallies are dude-dominated

(Newser) - Sarah Palin may have been picked in part to appeal to women, but her rallies are dominated by enthusiastic dudes, the New York Times reports. The vocal guys in the Joe Six-Pack crowd—bikers, high schoolers, bearded veterans—admire her for being “real” and “like us,” they...

Joe the Journo Attacked at Palin Event

Reporter kicked after angering supporter by talking to the opposition

(Newser) - The fiery rhetoric at a Republican rally turned physical yesterday when one supporter kicked a journalist in the leg, the News & Record reports. Joe Killian, who works for the paper, was covering a clash between supporters of Barack Obama and John McCain after a Sarah Palin rally in North...

Obama's the Only One Playing the Race Card
Obama's the Only One
Playing the Race Card
OPINION
Oct 17, 2008 9:47 AM CDT

Obama's the Only One Playing the Race Card

McCain's scrupulous eschewing of racial issue hasn't halted accusations

(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign has been unjustly accusing John McCain of appealing to racial prejudice, Charles Krauthammer argues in the Washington Post. McCain is taking the flak for what a few "agitated yahoos" shout at his rallies, he writes—a guilt by association that Obama seems to have escaped despite...

Out-of-Touch Dems Distort Myth of Crazed Mobs
Out-of-Touch Dems Distort
Myth of Crazed Mobs
OPINION
Oct 14, 2008 10:34 PM CDT

Out-of-Touch Dems Distort Myth of Crazed Mobs

(Newser) - It's been hard to miss the spate of reports about ugly anti-Obama incidents at McCain/Palin events—a crowd member calling him a “terrorist,” for instance. The media is now playing a game of "find a freak" at GOP rallies and grossly distorting the notion of genuine harm...

McCain Paints Ugly Picture, Touts His Experience as Fix

GOP candidate compares Obama to Herbert Hoover on economy

(Newser) - John McCain painted a dismal picture of the economy today at a rally in Virginia, comparing Barack Obama’s solutions to Herbert Hoover’s while declaring himself the right candidate to fix the mess, the Virginian-Pilot reports. McCain also raised the specter of his flailing campaign in an effort to...

McCain Booed for Defending Obama
McCain Booed for Defending Obama
Oct 11, 2008 7:51 AM CDT

McCain Booed for Defending Obama

Candidate praises, then slams rival at ugly GOP rally

(Newser) - A raucous Republican rally didn't take kindly to John McCain's defense of Barack Obama yesterday, the New York Times reports. The crowd jeered when McCain said his rival was not someone "to be scared of as president" in response to concerns expressed by a member of his audience. But...

Workers Bar Muslim Women From Obama Backdrop

Pair not allowed to sit behind candidate over headscarves; campaign apologizes

(Newser) - Two Muslim women were barred from sitting behind Barack Obama during a rally Monday, with campaign volunteers concerned about headscarves appearing on TV and in pictures, Politico reports. One woman was told the "political climate" made her presence problematic; another was told headwear of any kind was off-limits in...

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