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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Barack obama and Hillary Rodham clinton are competing for the youth vote in Pennsylvania as if they have never heard this is a state where the old hold sway.

Colorado Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak insists that she will show no favor to either presidential candidate until all states have voted and all pledged delegates have been assigned -- despite her own state's strong caucus preference for Barack obama.

AP - Barack obama and Hillary Rodham clinton are hustling for the youth vote in Pennsylvania as if they've never heard this is a state where the old hold sway.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary clinton and Barack obama have been working their way across the west this weekend, and Saturday they converged in Butte, Mont. Separately, former Rep. Bob Barr said he may run for president as a Libertarian.

Hurling a compliment at Barack obama in the hope of wounding him, Hillary Clinton's campaign has said that his proposals for responding to the economy's housing-related credit woes put him 'to the right of the Bush administration.'

Barack obama is surrounded by bright but untested academic economists who are on the cutting edge of research on health care policy, social insurance, technology and taxes.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Barack obama and Hillary Rodham clinton are hustling for the youth vote in Pennsylvania as if they've never heard this is a state where the old hold sway....

While some label the Reverend Wright's words 'hate speech,' others point to a tradition of exposing social ills.

The April 22 primary is becoming more of a can't-miss event for the young instead of just another why-bother one on the political calendar.

Former Montana senator John Melcher said he hadn't felt any urgency to take sides in the race between Sens. Hillary Rodham clinton and Barack obama until late last month, when Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called on superdelegates to make up their minds by July 1.