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What do presidential candidates John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have in common - aside from the obvious? They all love green-collar jobs. Obama promises to spend $150 billion over 10 years to create 5 million new green-collar jobs. Clinton references the term repeatedly on the trail, and says her energy plan will create millions of new green-collar jobs as well. McCain is less willing to cite numbers, but he too assures campaign audiences that action to decarbonize America's economy will produce "thousands, millions of new jobs in America...
There is no doubt, at least, that Kerry gave Clinton a look. Bob Shrum, Kerry's all-around strategist in that cycle, wrote about a brief consideration of Clinton in his book but said later that the Kerry team discarded the idea because her negatives were too high to bear...
Amid all this shadowboxing, mind-reading and recalibrating, how can Clinton and Obama possibly work out their differences? All of our reporting suggests that it's already begun...
...made it as clear as anyone possibly could that they did not appreciate the way Obama was planning to repair to Des Moines on Tuesday night and declare mathematical victory. A premature end zone dance, they added, was just the wrong way to court female voters who had backed Clinton and were reluctant to transfer their loyalties...
...feel than many expected, suggesting at the very least that Team Obama heard the complaint - or have bought the female-voter-threat idea enough not to take chances. As TIME noted this week, some of the phrases Obama used that night were notably similar to suggestions made by of Clinton backers who were trying to repair the breach...