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Was Hillary Clinton's Win in Pennsylvania Big Enough?
Hillary Clinton won big in Pennsylvania, but was it big enough to change the momentum of the campaign? Even after her decisive ten-point victory last night over Barack Obama, why are most political analysts still giving her no more than 10% chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination? Guest host Lawrence O'Donnell talks about when and how the super-delegates will have to intervene to pick a winner. Also, General David Petraeus is named head of Central Command, and how NAFTA has once again become a political football.
By Lawrence O'Donnell • • 1h 0m ListenSenator Hillary Clinton won big in Pennsylvania, but was it big enough to change the momentum of the campaign? Even after her decisive ten-point victory last night over Senator Barack Obama, why are most political analysts still giving her no more than 10% chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination? Guest host Lawrence O'Donnell talks about when and how the super-delegates will have to intervene to pick a winner. Also, General David Petraeus is named head of Central Command. On Reporter's Notebook, is the truth about NAFTA a victim of the presidential campaign?
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3 storiesPetraeus Nominated to Take Over Central Command
Today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates named his top commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus , to lead the US Central Command , responsible for all Middle East operations, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Peter Spiegel is Pentagon correspondent for the Los Angeles Times .
Read the story6 minThe Democrats' Race after the Pennsylvania Primary
"Good night, not goodbye for Clinton" reads the Los Angeles Times headline today. Hillary Clinton won a decisive ten-point victory in yesterday's presidential primary in Pennsylvania , but is simply winning no longer good enough for the Clinton campaign?
Read the story35 minNAFTA Returns to the Campaign Trail
When President Clinton successfully pushed NAFTA through Congress on a bi-partisan vote in his first year in office, who could have imagined it would be a presidential campaign issue 15 years later, and that his wife would be campaigning against it?
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