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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama's Farrakhan Test — Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Guilt By Association — It didn't take long for Hillary Clinton supporters to latch onto Barack Obama's church as a rebuttal to the criticism they've taken for Hillary's remarks about the role of civil-rights activists in fostering real change. Richard Cohen takes up the cudgel by demanding …
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Major Clinton supporter calls Obama remark ‘absolutely stupid’ — (CNN) — As both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tried to lower the tension after days of charged rhetoric over race, a congressional supporter of Clinton's presidential bid called the Illinois senator's remarks attacking …
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
HUCK, THE CONSTITUTION AND 'GOD'S STANDARDS' — From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy — WARREN, Mich. — Huckabee's closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and Christian values.
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Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Huck: We Need To Amend The Constitution, Bring It In Line With God — At a Michigan campaign event last night, Mike Huckabee gave an interesting reason for why he wants to amend the Constitution to ban both abortion and gay marriage: Otherwise, the Constitution would be in conflict with God.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Rules Against Investors in Securities Fraud Case — The Supreme Court today curbed the ability of investors who lost money through corporate fraud to sue businesses that may have helped facilitate the crime. — In what business interests and investors had described as the court's …
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Tina Lam / Detroit Free Press:
Riegle: Clinton's actions manipulated the ballot — The Michigan Democratic ballot is a sham that was rigged by Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters to give the nation the impression that she's the leading candidate in Michigan, an angry former Sen. Don Riegle said Monday.
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Dean Barnett / New York Times:
Driving Mr. Romney — I FIRST met Mitt Romney at a Lincoln Day dinner in 1994, during the earliest days of his failed Senate race against Ted Kennedy. The next weekend, I was helping him to collect the signatures he needed to get on the ballot for the Republican primary.
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Detroit Free Press:
Little to no waiting at polls across metro Detroit — FREE PRESS STAFF REPORTS — It's Michigan's turn today to choose the presidential candidates. Here's a sampling of scenes at polling places, as voters pick their favorites. — Birmingham resident breaks away from the family
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Matthew Yglesias:
A Very Serious Blog Post — It seems that nothing gets conservatives off nearly so much as writing obviously unserious books with patently offensive titles, designed in every way to not be taken seriously, and then get huffy when people make fun of them without having given their precious works the deep consideration they deserve.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Finally: Fred hits McCain; Update: Fred hits McCain again — Not with an uppercut but a good straight jab. It would have been more effective if he'd gone after him individually instead of lumping him in with Huck but the race being what it is in South Carolina, he doesn't have much choice.
Josephine Hearn / The Politico:
Pelosi pushes gourmet menu — The processed cheese has been replaced with brie. The Jell-O has made way for raspberry kiwi tarts and mini-lemon blueberry trifles. Meatloaf has moved over for mahi mahi and buns have been shunted aside in favor of baguettes.
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Banned at The DoJ — We here at TPM get hundreds of emails each day, ranging from reader emails to press releases. And it took me a while to notice that on October 10th of last year, the Justice Department stopped sending us their releases. We had been on their list for well more than a year.
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Stimulus Packages: Edwards, Clinton, Obama — I think Paul Krugman has got this one wrong. He writes: … Bear in mind that I don't yet believe that the case for a fiscal stimulus is strong—although I may change my mind in a month or two, depending on how the data flow looks.
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Election Projection:
Michigan predictions — It will be close. But who will win today in Michigan is hard to say. Unlike many states, Michigan's primary is open. That means anyone, Democrat, Independent, or Republican, can vote in either party's primary. As we saw in New Hampshire, this can have some measure of impact on the outcome.
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