Almost from the beginning, Hillary Rodham Clinton's superior name recognition and her sway with state party organizations convinced Barack Obama's brain trust that a junior senator from Illinois was not going to be able to challenge the Clinton political machine head-on. -
By Jonathan Weisman, Shailagh Murray and Peter Slevin
Strategy Was Based On Winning Delegates, Not Battlegrounds
Almost from the beginning, Hillary Rodham Clinton's superior name recognition and her sway with state party organizations convinced Barack Obama's brain trust that a junior senator from Illinois was not going to be able to challenge the Clinton political machine head-on.-
By Jonathan Weisman, Shailagh Murray and Peter Slevin