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12:55 PM ET, July 23, 2007

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Washington Post:
Poll Shows Clinton With Solid Lead Among Democrats  —  By a wide margin, Democrats view Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) as the party's candidate best positioned to win the general election, and she holds a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the race for the nomination, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll.
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Quinnipiac University News and Events:
July 23, 2007 - Bloomberg Boosts Democrats' Fortunes In Florida, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; McCain Fades In Republican Primary Race  —  If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg runs for President as an independent candidate, it helps Democrats in Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Lead By $100 Million In Money Race  —  WASHINGTON — With more than a year to go before the 2008 elections, Democratic candidates have raised $100 million more in campaign contributions than Republicans, putting them on track to win the money race for the White House and Congress …
Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:
Small donors playing bigger role in campaigns  —  Presidential candidates collect record amounts in small sums.  Just as valuable: the support those dollars and cents represent.  —  From her computer in Anchorage, Sharon Pipino hits the "send" button once a month, and delivers another $25 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
Discussion: Donklephant
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama solicits La Raza backing
Discussion: MSNBC, PoliPundit.com and Hot Air
Bill Schneider / CNN:   Democrats gather for CNN-YouTube debate
Washington Post:   Loophole Lets Candidates Skirt Donation Limit
Rasmussen Reports:
Associated Press, MSNBC and CNBC Seen as Having Liberal Bias  —  In the final poll of a series measuring perceptions of media bias, the Associated Press, local television stations, MSNBC, and CNBC are all perceived as tilting to the left when reporting the news.
Discussion: Don Surber and QandO
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Rasmussen: Liberal Bias In American Media
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Politico Playbook: First date  —  Good Monday Morning.  —  YOU were the TIME person of the year (great resume fodder) and now YOU (or some of you, at least) get to help out host Anderson Cooper and electronically ask the Democratic candidates questions during the two-hour CNN/YouTube debate at 7 Eastern tonight.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Unlikely Adversary Arises to Criticize Detainee Hearings  —  NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Stephen E. Abraham's assignment to the Pentagon unit that runs the hearings at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, seemed a perfect fit.  —  A lawyer in civilian life, he had been decorated for counterespionage …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Democrats Press House to Expand Health Care Bill  —  After a rare bipartisan agreement in the Senate to expand insurance coverage for low-income children, House Democrats have drafted an even broader plan that also calls for major changes in Medicare and promises to intensify the battle with the White House over health care.
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   An Unusually Effective Minority
Sarah Cohen / Washington Post:
Deceased Farmers Got USDA Payments  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Bill Kristol, Highly Recommended  —  Bill Kristol's the-war-is-being-won piece in The Washington Post brought him plenty of ridicule, but at least one person liked it.  —  President Bush read the July 15 Outlook article that morning and recommended it to his staff.
Discussion: American Footprints
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
TV provides poor signal for Hillary  —  When Hollywood producer Rod Lurie created fictional president Mackenzie Allen in 2005 for the show "Commander in Chief" he made no mistake about one of his goals: tilling the soil of popular culture so that it would soon be easier for a real woman to take root in a nonfiction Oval Office.
Reuters:
U.N. suspends peacekeepers amid sex abuse charges  —  ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire (Reuters) — The United Nations said on Saturday it had suspended a Moroccan military contingent from its peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire while it investigated allegations of widespread sexual abuse.
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Binary America: Split in Two by A Digital Divide  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Less than a mile and a half from the Citadel, the site of the Democratic presidential debate tonight, sits Cooper River Courts, a public housing project.  Forget the Web.  Never mind YouTube, the debate's co-sponsor.
Discussion: cab drollery and Open Left
David Nather / CQPolitics.com:
Lieberman's New Party Line  —  No one was surprised to see Joseph I. Lieberman , the Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut, siding with the Republican leadership this month during the latest Senate debate over the Iraq War.  —  Lately, though, Lieberman has taken his alliance with GOP leaders up a notch.
Discussion: Firedoglake and My Left Nutmeg
 
 
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