Democratic Slugfest
An exchange of blows between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama was bound to happen.
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William Schneider is the Cable News Network's senior political analyst. He is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times, National Journal, and The Atlantic Monthly. His column appears every week in National Journal, a weekly magazine covering politics and government published in Washington, D.C.
An exchange of blows between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama was bound to happen.
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