Love her or hate her (and many people fall into one or the other of these camps), Hillary Clinton ran neck and neck with Obama for the Democratic nomination. Her husband, who helped her top the fundraising charts for the first quarter (but not by nearly as big a margin as expected), was both one of her biggest assets and her biggest liabilities. She's won kudos in the Senate for hard work and bipartisan effectiveness, but in the end the numbers just weren't on her side.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 28 Aug 2008 8:01:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35989/historic-first-obamas-the-nominee.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBarack Obama today became the first black candidate to earn the presidential nomination of a major party. His main rival, Hillary Clinton, got him there with a flourish by personally suspending the official roll call and asking that he be nominated by acclamation. She said she did so "in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory," the Washington Post reports.http://www.newser.com/story/35989/historic-first-obamas-the-nominee.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 27 Aug 2008 18:08:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35982/clinton-releases-delegates-as-obamas-moment-nears.html?refid=rss_all_defaultHillary Clinton formally released her delegates today to allow them to vote for Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee, CNN reports. The expected move cleared the way for this evening's nomination of Barack Obama. Before the official roll call began, the names of both Clinton and Obama were formally nominated.http://www.newser.com/story/35982/clinton-releases-delegates-as-obamas-moment-nears.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35934/hillarys-faithful-unswayed-by-speech.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMany Hillary Clinton supporters still won't vote for Obama despite her calls for unity last night at the Democratic Convention, the Washington Post reports. "Even if she can move on easily, that's not as easy for everybody else," said one Clinton supporter. Dissatisfied loyalists set up a Clinton campaign museum, led a parade, and lit thousands of candles in a park.http://www.newser.com/story/35934/hillarys-faithful-unswayed-by-speech.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 27 Aug 2008 7:39:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35889/hillary-time-is-now-to-unite.html?refid=rss_all_defaultHillary Clinton delivered her long-awaited address tonight to the Democratic convention and drove home the point quickly and repeatedly: The party must unite and elect Barack Obama. Clinton, after a lengthy standing ovation, said she hasn't worked for the past 35 years on health care and women's rights only to have it all "squandered" by another Republican administration, CNN reports.http://www.newser.com/story/35889/hillary-time-is-now-to-unite.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 26 Aug 2008 18:19:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35844/clinton-never-was-in-running-for-veep-slot.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIn a meeting soon after Hillary Clinton conceded the nomination, Barack Obama told her he probably wouldn’t select her for the VP slot, sources close to the conversation told the Washington Post . She had requested that he not put her through a charade of vetting if she wasn't a serious candidate; he didn’t want to raise false hopes and knew after the rough primary season that the two wouldn’t make a good match.http://www.newser.com/story/35844/clinton-never-was-in-running-for-veep-slot.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 26 Aug 2008 9:10:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35826/hillary-like-suffrage-is-a-symbol-of-frustration.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMany have noted that Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight comes on the anniversary of women’s suffrage, but that’s not necessarily the uplifting coincidence it appears to be, writes feminist author Susan Faludi in the New York Times. Despite Clinton’s fantastic primary showing, her supporters remain disconsolate because feminist history is loaded with half-measures and failed successes—and suffrage was one of them.http://www.newser.com/story/35826/hillary-like-suffrage-is-a-symbol-of-frustration.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 26 Aug 2008 7:37:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35833/hillary-can-only-lose-tonight-but-she-knows-how-to-lose.html?refid=rss_all_defaultHillary Clinton's mission in Denver tonight is both painful and fraught with peril, Marie Cocco writes in the Washington Post . As “cheerleader in chief" who may want to pursue another run herself, she can't really win—surely she'll be criticized for being either too methodical or too exuberant, and her supporters will misbehave—but Clinton has to know that going in, and “Clinton is a woman who knows how to lose.”http://www.newser.com/story/35833/hillary-can-only-lose-tonight-but-she-knows-how-to-lose.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 26 Aug 2008 8:03:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35780/dems-still-bruised-open-convention.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Democrats opened their 2008 presidential nominating convention today in Denver, a four-day political festival to nominate Barack Obama for president and fellow Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, was in Denver for the opening and might speak tonight to fellow Democrats still trying to recover from a long and bruising primary battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton.http://www.newser.com/story/35780/dems-still-bruised-open-convention.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 25 Aug 2008 16:47:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35724/obama-clinton-tension-runs-high-in-denver.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMonths after Hillary Clinton announced her support for Barack Obama, tensions between the two camps have flared again, Politico reports, and behind-the-scenes sniping in Denver is intense. Bill Clinton is unhappy with his speech assignment—Wednesday night's theme, securing America's future, leaves him little room to revisit the successes of his own presidency—while Obama aides say Clinton associates still act like the former first couple has leverage.http://www.newser.com/story/35724/obama-clinton-tension-runs-high-in-denver.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 25 Aug 2008 7:43:46 CDT