 March 28, 2008
Posted: 12:04 PM ET
Watch the elephants choose their candidates.
 WASHINGTON (CNN)— Presidential politics often feel like one big political circus, but Friday, a group of elephants put meaning behind the term and caucused for their favorite presidential candidate. Four elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus on tour in Washington D.C. were lead by clowns in the caucus ring to different corners representing the candidates. There was a three way tie until the last elephant uncovered a surprise fourth candidate. After the surprise candidate was revealed, all the elephants seemed to change their stances and push for the surprise addition– turns out not all elephants are Republicans. Watch the video to see who the surprise candidate was. Filed under: Presidential Race January 15, 2008
Posted: 03:30 PM ET
Watch Jesse Jackson speak out Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who blazed his own presidential trail in 1984, had blunt advice for the top Democratic contenders this year: Stop your sniping or risk losing the general election in November. "This is in some sense an inter-league game now. The Super Bowl is in November," Jackson said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Washington. "There should not be so much blood-letting now around the edge issues, which could become wedge issues, until there is not the strength left to coalesce after Denver and fight the big fight." He said similar ill-will between the campaigns of Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts doomed Democratic chances in 1980. "I remember so well in 1980 in the Kennedy-Carter primary struggle," he said. "There was so much anger and bloodletting that they could hardly embrace each other on the stage in New York City. They never recovered and they lost the campaign." Filed under: Presidential Race January 12, 2008
Posted: 02:01 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Republican presidential field will face a tough general election fight from the Democrats, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Saturday. According to the survey, either of the Democratic frontrunners, Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York or Barack Obama of Illinois, hold mostly double-digit - and statistically identical — advantages over Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee, drawing more than 50 percent support in each hypothetical matchup. The Republican candidate who gives Clinton and Obama the closest race in the new poll is Arizona Sen. John McCain, who is essentially tied with both: he draws the support of 48 percent of those surveyed to both Clinton's 50 percent and Obama's 49 percent. Filed under: Presidential Race |
 
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