In the beginning, there were eight candidates running for president.

Joe Biden is from Delaware.

He talks about Iraq, Hillary Clinton's from New York.

She talks about the 19 nineties.

Chris Dodd is from Connecticut.

He talks about education and the environment.

John Edwards is from North Carolina.

He talks about poor people and his dad's mill.

Mike Ravel is from Alaska.

He talks about himself.

Dennis Kucinich is from Ohio.

He talks about peace.

Barack Obama's from Illinois.

He talked about change.

You can believe in Bill Richardson's from New Mexico.

He talks about his impressive resume.

Polls show only three candidates have a shot.

Edwards, Clinton and Obama, all three of them, released their health care proposals.

They're all universal plans.

Clinton goes on all the morning talk shows to brag about her health plan.

She cackles Thief Press treats her as the inevitable nominee.

Edwards and Obama show up from MySpace MTV Forum thinking social networks matter for this election, they don't.

At the end of September, Obama and Hillary say they raised a lot of money.

Edward's not so much.

Florida and Michigan make a stink about voting earlier than they're allowed.

Howard Dean gets mad.

He takes all their delegates away.

The Democrats sign a pledge that they won't campaign in Florida or Michigan.

Obama and Edwards take their names off the Michigan ballot.

Obama gets in trouble for having homophobe Gospel singer campaign for him.

He says he doesn't agree with the singer but doesn't ask him not to sing.

Stephen Colbert runs for president.

South Carolina Democrats don't let him on the ballot.

He supports Mike Huckabee instead in October.

Everybody thinks Iran is really dangerous, Obama says.

He'll meet with on the dinner job.

Clinton says That's naive.

By December.

Nobody cares because we think Iran doesn't have nukes anymore.

Dennis Kucinich says he believes in UFOs.

We all believe him.

Hillary says she wants illegal immigrant step driver's licenses.

Lou Dobbs frowns.

Hillary says she doesn't want illegal immigrants have driver's licenses.

Lou Dobbs smiles.

John Edwards pounces.

Joe Biden makes it funny about Rudy Giuliani.

There's only three things.

He mentioned the sentence and now in a verb in 9 11 smear campaign, start gaining traction against Obama He's a crypt, a Muslim.

He doesn't like America.

He doesn't pledge allegiance to the flag.

Spam filters buckle under the added stress.

Hillary's campaign plants a question in an Iowa audience.

It causes a stir.

Makes Iowans think twice about trusting the Clintons.

Oprah stumps for Obama.

Babs endorses Clinton.

Kevin Bacon endorses Edwards.

Harrigan endorses personage.

Fight for us and regain your on cable news.

Anchors care 10 times as much of the average voter.

A guy says he has a bomb and takes hostages at a Clinton campaign office.

People get scared.

Nothing bad happens.

Weeks before Iowa New Hampshire vote.

Hillary advisor wonders whether Obama sold drugs.

The adviser quits the campaign.

Benazir Bhutto gets assassinated at the end of 2007.

Pundits think it will make voters care about foreign policy.

It doesn't happy New Year.

Three days to Iowa, polls show a tight race.

The candidates give their closing arguments.

Edwards goes on a 36 hour campaign marathon through Iowa.

His pitch.

Americans are heroes.

The middle class can rise up.

His dad worked in the mills.

My dad worked in a male Hillary, flies in a helicopter and says she's experienced in bringing about change.

Bill goes on tour, too.

Meanwhile, Obama talks about a fierce urgency of now.

Theo.

General public learns about arcane caucus rules.

The phrase is Get out!

The caucus viability threshold and precinct leader entered the zeitgeist.

Obama wins Iowa.

People are surprised why people like the black guy.

He gives a good speech.

They said this day would never come.

Hillary finishes third.

She screwed.

We think.

Biden and Dodd dropout.

Four days to New Hampshire.

Polls show Obama is kicking ass.

He has 1000 person rallies.

He's going to win the nomination.

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Clinton.

Sort of Maybe not really.

Cries in a diner.

Just don't want to see us fall backwards.

You have your empathizes.

She wins the state.

Whoa.

People wonder if Edward staying in the race hurts Obama.

My dad worked in a male, Edward says.

He's not going anywhere.

The race becomes about Hillary's experience.

Mrs.

Obama's change.

We've got to change how business is done in Washington, Richardson drops out, grows a beard.

January 15th primary in Michigan.

Edwards and Obama are off the ballot, so Clinton wins the beauty contest.

January 19th caucus in Nevada.

Clinton wins we find out Latinos don't like Obama, this will become a theme.

Meanwhile, B E T founder Bob Johnson brings up Obama's drug use.

Bill Clinton says a variety of stupid things.

This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen.

Hillary and Bracher me to each other in a debate.

Your contributor.

Resco in his slum landlord business and inner city Chicago.

It's on Martin Luther King Day Bill and Chelsea campaign in South Carolina.

None of this helps Hilary's case with black voters.

Krzanich drops out.

Air going gets pissed.

January 26th.

Obama destroys Clinton in South Carolina.

Black voters go for him.

White women for Hillary.

Quite men for John Edwards Identity politics.

Aaron This year, Ted Kennedy endorses Obama.

Oh, mama, everybody thinks this is important.

It turns out it isn't January 29th.

Florida's next Hillary wins, but the delegates don't count.

She wants them seated anyway.

Edwards drops out.

People are sad.

Obama and Clinton debate in California.

I respect son work won their civil Hollywood's on strike so lots of people watch CNN that yes, we can video debuts.

Scarlett Johansson in a bunch of other pretty people sing about Obama.

February 5th.

23 states and territories vote.

Obama wins Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota and Utah.

Clinton wins Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Oh, and we nearly forgot she wins American Samoa to for those keeping score at home, that's 15 wins for Obama, 12 for Clinton.

Now it's all about delegates and nobody really knows how to count them.

Obama wins 10 more pledged delegates and Clinton on Super Tuesday.

There are more than 4000 total.

It's going to be a long ride to the convention.

Clinton loans herself $5 million.

This causes supporters to give you $10 million.

Obama wins 10 states and territories in a row by big margins.

Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, Virgin Islands, Main, D, C.

Maryland, Virginia, Hawaii and Wisconsin.

Pundits doctor wonder whether Clinton should drop out.

Now she vows to press on through Ohio and Texas on March 4th.

Clinton says Obama is a chicken for not wanting to debate her once a week, and there's a sort of negative at maybe prefer to give speeches, have to answer questions.

Obama gets pissy and responds with his own at It's the same old politics, Clinton says Obama plagiarize some of his lines from his friend Deval Patrick.

Just Obama feels bad that you borrowed lines, but he says he didn't plagiarize Obama and Hilary debate in Texas.

Hillary looks like she's from Star Trek, she says.

She doesn't believe in change.

You can.

Xerox is not change.

You can believe in its change.

You can xerox the crowd booth the picture surfaces of Obama and Kenya wearing traditional Somali clothing, Drudge says Clinton staffers leaked the pics.

Clinton denies Obama Takes umbrage.

Clinton runs an ad wondering whether the country wants Obama picking up the phone at 3 a.m. It's 3 a.m. and your Children are safe and asleep.

Later, it's revealed that one of the actresses is now an Obama supporter.

March 4th Clinton wins the Ohio Rhode Island in Texas primaries.

Obama wins Vermont and the Texas caucus.

Clinton doesn't make up much ground in pledge delegates.

She doesn't drop out.

Obama.

Foreign policy adviser Samantha Power says Clinton is a monster.

Thekla Tin campaign gets upset.

Power resigns as expected.

Obama wins Wyoming in Mississippi.

Geraldine Ferraro says Obama wouldn't be where he is today if he wasn't a black guy.

Obama gets upset.

Ferraro steps down Videos Surface of Obama's pastor saying nasty stuff about the country.

Damn America.

There's an upper.

Obama tries to calm the controversy by giving a speech about race.

People like it.

Mike Ravel leaves the Democratic race.

Now he's a libertarian.

Bill Richardson endorses Obama.

He still has a beard.

Clinton says she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia back in 1996.

I remember landing under sniper fire.

There was no greeting ceremony.

We basically were told to run to our cars.

Now that is what happened.

It's not true.

Obama sticks his foot in his mouth and says small town Americans are better.

Clinton.

There's an attack ad to rub it in.

I was very insulted by Barack Obama.

April 22nd Millie wins Pennsylvania by nine points.

Reverend Wright resurfaces in a non bombastic way.

Obama says he's outraged.

I am outraged, so that's that Obama still has the inside track to the nomination.

It's all up to the superdelegates.

The convention is in August.