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HillaryClinton.com:
Statement by Senator Hillary Clinton on the Seating of Delegates at the Democratic National Convention — “I hear all the time from people in Florida and Michigan that they want their voices heard in selecting the Democratic nominee. — “I believe our nominee will need the enthusiastic support …
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CLINTON TRIES TO REINSTATE MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA'S DELEGATES. — This is a very, very, very big deal. From the Clinton campaign: … This is the sort of decision that has the potential to tear the party apart. In an attempt to retain some control over the process and keep the various states …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Rules? The Clintons Don't Need No Stinkin' Rules! — The Democratic National Committee stripped Michigan and Florida of its delegates for violating scheduling rules for their primaries. It took 365 delegates off the table and forced candidates to stop campaigning in the two vital states.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
MORE ON DELEGATES — Not surprisingly there's been an avalanche …
MORE ON DELEGATES — Not surprisingly there's been an avalanche …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NO WAY — The Clinton camp really needs to be shut …
NO WAY — The Clinton camp really needs to be shut …
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New York Times, Balloon Juice, PSoTD, the talking dog, Donklephant, D-Day, Matthew Yglesias and The Reaction
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Hillary: DNC Should Seat The Michigan And Florida Delegates
Hillary: DNC Should Seat The Michigan And Florida Delegates
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Corruption Of Feminism — A reader transcribed the following conversation on Hardball tonight: … Wow. A proud defense of nepotism over feminism. Or rather, as is the Clintons' wont, a total conflation of feminism with nepotism. I remember similar Clintonian feminists in the 1990s trashing …
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CNN:
Bill Clinton: John McCain and Hillary are ‘very close’ — (CNN) — If Hillary Clinton and John McCain become their party's presidential nominees, the general election race is likely to be a love-fest. — At least according to Bill Clinton. — Campaigning in Spartanburg, South Carolina …
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
WHO STEPPED DOWN AND NAMED ANDREW SULLIVAN KING OF FEMINISM?
WHO STEPPED DOWN AND NAMED ANDREW SULLIVAN KING OF FEMINISM?
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Blog of the Moderate Left, Change of Subject, Slog, The Daily Dish, Feministe and The Democratic Daily
Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Polls: Obama Solidifies Lead as Election Day Looms in South Carolina; McCain Holds Narrow Lead Over Romney in Florida; Others Far Back — 1/23-25 — 1/22-24 — 1/21-23 — 1/20-22 — Obama — 41% — 38% — 39% — 43% — Clinton — 26% — 25%
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
Clinton pursues selective strategy in S.C. — Columbia, S.C. - With polls showing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lagging behind Sen. Barack Obama here, the Clinton campaign is concentrating on competing hard in selected congressional districts in an effort to keep Obama from running up the score in Saturday's primary.
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
SOUTH CAROLINA: WHY SO MUCH VARIATION?
SOUTH CAROLINA: WHY SO MUCH VARIATION?
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Democratic Strategist, Hotline On Call, TPM Election Central and McClatchy Washington Bureau
Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
He Didn't Give at the Office — Remember that picture of Yasser Arafat, blood donor? — Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
HE DIDN'T GIVE AT THE OFFICE — This week we've seen the news services become pure instruments of terrorist propaganda on behalf of Hamas. As Noah Pollak and Pajamas Media pointed out, even Time jumped in to lend a hand. Rest assured that the organs of the mainstream media will not pause …
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Los Angeles Times:
Is the right right on the Clintons? — Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple. — Something strange happened the other day. All these different people — friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read — kept saying the same thing …
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
FBI Agent: Hussein Didn't Expect Invasion — Before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein misjudged the U.S. military strategy and thought the United States would launch only several days of airstrikes and not a full-scale ground invasion, according to a television interview with the FBI agent …
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back — The Internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned. — That's the lesson Fox News and a self-help author learned this week after a program on that channel featured a discussion of the sexual content of the hit video game Mass Effect.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
McCain's Fiscal Mantra Becomes Less Is More — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Senator John McCain said that, if elected, he would do what other presidents had tried but failed to do: cut government spending sharply enough to reduce the budget deficit while lowering taxes at the same time.
Nigel Blundell / Telegraph:
Killer dolphins baffle marine experts — It's hard to visualise but the intelligent and ever-friendly dolphin can also be a determined killer. — New evidence has been compiled by marine scientists that prove the normally placid dolphin is capable of brutal attacks both on innocent fellow marine mammals …