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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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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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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Identity Trap — When Hillary Clinton is good on the Sunday talk shows, she is really, really good. But when she is bad, she's atrocious. When she talks about policy, she will dazzle you. When her own ambitions are on the line, it's time to reach for the sick bag.
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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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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.
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Republicans Make Final Appeals in Michigan — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Mitt Romney began what even his advisers concede is potentially a do-or-die moment for his presidential candidacy on Tuesday, by reflecting on the memory of his late father, George Romney, as Michigan voters began casting primary ballots.
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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: McCain, Romney Nose-to-Nose in Michigan
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: McCain, Romney Nose-to-Nose in Michigan
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Setting Mich expectations
Setting Mich expectations
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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.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Kucinich court decision and “judicial activism” — (updated below) — MSNBC is televising a debate tonight between the Democratic presidential candidates in Nevada. It originally invited Dennis Kucinich to participate because Kucinich met the objective criteria the network created for inclusion.
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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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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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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.
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.
Jon Ralston / Las vegas sun Blogs:
The Culinary takes on Hillary Clinton with fliers — No more dot-connecting: Just straight out accusations that her campaign filed the lawsuit. — See the fliers here. — 17 comments so far... By CHernan … Jon, I understood you to say that some of the plaintiffs in the law suit are Edwards supporters.
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Mike Huckabee Really Is a Piece of Work — From Michigan: … Governor, I didn't have silver spoons or boarding schools or a verb summer, but I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism. Is this the Republican primary of a John Edwards rally?
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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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