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As it happened, most of what Ickes uttered into his phone in a Virginia hotel lounge that recent afternoon was punctuated with so many expletives that it was unquotable in this magazine. But that call was like hundreds he is making each week now as Hillary Clinton's top superdelegate...
Ickes' superdelegate search had the feel of utter futility only a few weeks ago, when both math and momentum seemed to rule Clinton out of contention. But then came her 9-point win in Pennsylvania, highlighting Barack Obama's persistent weakness among Catholics, senior women, Hispanics and blue-collar workers...
Though he has played many roles since his first campaign, in 1968, Ickes is known best as a closer, the master of the bitter end who can wring important victories from defeat. He fought pitched, sometimes noble, usually hopeless battles on behalf of Eugene McCarthy, Ed Muskie, Ted Kennedy and...
In 1988 Ickes was at it again, negotiating a change in party rules that would not be tested until 2008. In return for Jackson's support at the convention that summer, Michael Dukakis endorsed a complex plan that awarded delegates based on a candidate's proportion of the vote in...
The most important audience Obama was trying to reach in that news conference was not the voters in the upcoming Democratic primary states of Indiana and North Carolina. He was speaking most directly to 300 or so remaining undecided Democratic superdelegates, the party regulars who are likely to determine the...