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Hillary Clinton now joins a select group of politicians who came up short in their quest for the White House. The losses can haunt them for months, or even years. There is a long tradition in American democracy of losing presidential candidates accepting their defeats graciously -- Clintonrsquo emotional concession speec stanley deutschland h Wednesday was praised as classy and poignant. But that doesnrsquo;t make the rejection any easier to swallow, reports CBS News correspondent Chip Reid.It was not the speech Clinton thought she would give the morning after the election. This loss hurts. But please, never stop believing, that fighting for whatrsquo right is worth it, Clinton said. Clinton s emotional concession speech 06:54 stanley cup Clinton failed to bust through the proverbial glass ceiling again, just like in 2008, when she lost the nomination fight to Barack Obama. Although we werenrsquo;t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, itrsquo stanley cup got about 18 million cracks in it, she told her supporters, followed by applause.In a lot of ways, these losses are a little death for people, said presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Goodwin said losing candidates c Qdoj President Obama s Schedule Today
Watc stanley cup h CBS News Videos OnlineDemocrats chances of holding on to a congressional super-majority following the 2010 midterm elections have taken a hit in the last month, but their party s chairman thinks it will be the Republicans left scrambling in the fall. There s a huge, corrosive civil war within the Republican party that I think will continue to be a factor that will work in our favor in 2010, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who also presides over the Democratic National Committee, told CBS The Early Show On Wednesday, surprise retirement announcements came from two longstanding Democratic Senators, Connecticut s Chris Dodd and North Dakota s Byron Dorgan ndash; a development that threatens the Democrats chances of maintaining 60-40 filibuster-proof majority over Republicans. The Democrats actually control 58 seats, with two independents caucusing with them . And last month, the party suffered a defection to the GOP by freshman Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith. But aside from the recent buzz about potential Democratic losses, Republicans face the real problem, according to Kaine. In the Senate, two Democrats will retire but six Republicans will join them. In the House, stanley italia GOP retirements outpace Democrats 14 to 10. Retirements are really on the other side, Kaine said. There are also hotly contested primaries in some Republican districts that may hurt party unity. Kaine also said two of the biggest challenges during stanley cup President Bar |
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