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And The First Exit Polls in Michigan Say... I'm surprised no one else has put this up yet. I'm hearing the first round of exit polls have Romney 35, McCain 29, Huckabee 15, Ron Paul 10, Giuliani 4. This doesn't count absentee ballots. — If this holds, the networks will be able to announce shortly after 9 p.m. eastern time...
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Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Exit poll favors Romney's prospects — Early exit polling from Michigan appears to bode well for Mitt Romney and ill for John McCain. — McCain won the Republican primary in 2000, thanks largely to support from independents and Democrats who crossed over.
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CNN:
Exit polling: Democrats pick McCain over Romney — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Despite urging from some activists like Markos Moulitsas that Michigan Democrats vote for Mitt Romney over John McCain, CNN exit polling indicates the Arizona Republican won the liberal vote.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HARD MITTMENTUM — NRO's Jim Geraghty posts what are supposed to be the first exit polls out of Michigan. Romney 35%, McCain 29%, Huck 15%, Paul 10%, Giuliani 4%. — We've independently heard the same numbers; but we were not able to confirm them. — (ed.note: Actually …
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Total — 104,696 — 104,006 — 67,601 — 24,484 — 18,788 — Total Delegates: — That's what Geraghty the Indispensable is hearing. — Cue the fat lady for Huck and McCain. The former can't get above 15% with a huge effort, and McCain can't win in an open primary state …
Brian Stelter / The Caucus:
NBC Wins Battle Over Debate — The Nevada Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that MSNBC is not required to include candidate Dennis Kucinich in its scheduled Democratic presidential debate. — The decision, which came one hour before the debate was scheduled to begin in Las Vegas …
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Ken Ritter / Associated Press:
Court allows MSNBC to bar Kucinich — LAS VEGAS - The Nevada Supreme Court said Tuesday MSNBC can exclude Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich from a candidate debate. — Lawyers for NBC Universal Inc., had asked the high court to overturn a lower court order …
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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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Associated Press:
Exit poll: 7 in 10 voted Republican — Highlights from preliminary results of exit polling in Michigan's presidential primaries Tuesday for The Associated Press and television networks: — A REPUBLICAN PRIMARY AFTER ALL ... The last time Michigan had a competitive Republican presidential primary …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN — Reader Ronald Knott writes …
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Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:Another prexy campaign, another McCain smear
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:Setting Mich expectations
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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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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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Blacklash? — So far, in Michigan, the African-American vote is going 69 percent for “Uncommitted” against 25 percent for Clinton. That's a brutal judgment on the front-runner in the Democratic race. I wonder if the Clintons have badly damaged their own party in their attempt to quash the hopes raised by Obama.
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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.
Detroit Free Press:
Across Michigan, light turnout and some upset voters — Around metro Detroit and across the state, turnout has been so low for the presidential primary that some clerks predict the majority of votes will come from absentee ballots. — Clerks say snowy weather and a non-race on the Democratic side have kept numbers down.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hillary Whacks Bill In The Crown Jewels — Here is an odd one - in the course of bemoaning her heroic sacrifice in order to deliver a better America to the rest of us (hard to type while I'm tearing up), Hillary said this in a no-holds-barred interview with Tyra Banks:
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