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Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
McCain's Michigan Letdown — Mitt gets his win, Hugh gets his night, and we begin to see what mainline conservative opposition to McCain can look like in later primaries. — In two states in a row, John McCain underperformed 2000 — when he was eventually drubbed by 20 points nationally.
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How Romney won: Economy, evangelicals, local ties
How Romney won: Economy, evangelicals, local ties
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Source: McCain camp claims Romney promised he wouldn't preempt …
Source: McCain camp claims Romney promised he wouldn't preempt …
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Romney in Crucial Victory Over McCain in Michigan
Romney in Crucial Victory Over McCain in Michigan
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Potentially troubling news for Clinton in Michigan ‘win’ — (CNN) — Hillary Clinton faced a grim statistic in Michigan tonight, despite her primary “win” there: results revealed that she may have reason to worry about her grasp on the African-American vote.
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Associated Press:
Bill Clinton paints Obama as ‘establishment’ candidate — SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Bill Clinton, who carried Nevada in two general elections, urged voters Tuesday to buck labor endorsements for Sen. Barack Obama and support his wife in Saturday's hotly contested presidential caucuses …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Hillary's Flat Tire In Michigan — So Hillary got a chance to have a primary race where her only competition was a fringe candidate (Dennis Kucinich), one who already quit (Chris Dodd), a joke (Mike Gravel), and None of the Above (Uncommitted). How well did she fare in a state that usually likes Establishment candidates?
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
EXITS — According to the Fox exit polls, in the Democratic …
EXITS — According to the Fox exit polls, in the Democratic …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Blacklash? — So far, in Michigan, the African-American vote …
Blacklash? — So far, in Michigan, the African-American vote …
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Senator Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
The Democratic Debate in Las Vegas — The following is a transcript of the Democratic debate in Las Vegas, as provided by the Federal News Service. — DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE PARTICIPANTS: — FORMER SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC) SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-IL) — MODERATORS:
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David McGrath Schwartz / Las Vegas Sun:
Timing may sink lawsuit aimed at Strip voting
Timing may sink lawsuit aimed at Strip voting
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Matthew Yglesias / Washington Monthly:
The Unbearable Inanity of Tim Russert — On May 27, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson appeared on Meet the Press hoping, no doubt, to get a question about Iraq policy. Richardson was advocating the complete withdrawal of all U.S. forces, an important policy distinction …
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WORST. MODERATORS. EVER. — It's almost impossible for me to convey the damage Tim Russert and Brian Williams are doing to the republic this evening. So far, the questioning has gone something like: “Hillary, are you a racist?" “Barack, are you a scary black man who will continually remind us that we are racists?”
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
CNN's John King responds — Over the weekend, I wrote about an adulating interview which CNN's John King conducted with John McCain while riding on the storied Straight Talk Express bus. The interview was broadcast on “Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer. In that post, I printed all of the …
Michael Abramowitz / On The Plane:
Dowd, Sick Instead of Skewering, Gets Help from White House Doc — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Having made a living for years skewering President Bush, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is almost certainly not one of the White House's favorite columnists. — She refers to the president dismissively …
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Washington Post:
Station Chief Made Appeal To Destroy CIA Tapes — Lawyer Says Top Official Had Implicit Approval — In late 2005, the retiring CIA station chief in Bangkok sent a classified cable to his superiors in Langley asking if he could destroy videotapes recorded at a secret CIA prison in Thailand …
James Glanz / New York Times:
Iraqi Spending to Rebuild Has Slowed, Report Says — Highly promising figures that the administration cited to demonstrate economic progress in Iraq last fall, when Congress was considering whether to continue financing the war, cannot be substantiated by official Iraqi budget records …
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Steven E. Landsburg / New York Times:
What to Expect When You're Free Trading — IN the days before Tuesday's Republican presidential primary in Michigan, Mitt Romney and John McCain battled over what the government owes to workers who lose their jobs because of the foreign competition unleashed by free trade.
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Death of the Bush Doctrine — THE Bush Doctrine - born on Sept. 20, 2001, when President Bush bluntly warned the sponsors of violent jihad: “You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists” - is dead. Its demise was announced by Condoleezza Rice last Friday.
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
High-Profile Officer Nagl to Leave Army, Join Think Tank — One of the Army's most prominent younger officers, whose writings have influenced the conduct of the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq, said he has decided to leave the service to study strategic issues full time at a new Washington think tank.
Janet Albrechtsen / The Australian:
Too many rights make a wrong — CANADA: It was one of those rare, particularly sunny days in Vancouver in September when, addressing an audience at the University of British Columbia, I suggested that multiculturalism and its partner in crime, moral relativism, were leading to the demise of Western values.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
A Supreme Court Reversal: Abandoning the Rights of Voters — The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a hugely important case about voter ID laws. Asking for identification at the polls may sound reasonable, but an Indiana law disenfranchises large numbers of people without driver's licenses …
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