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4:15 PM ET, February 1, 2008

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Ari Melber / The Nation:
MOVEON ENDORSES OBAMA...  Today Barack Obama earned the endorsement of MoveOn, one of the largest grassroots membership organizations in the United States, after clobbering Hillary Clinton by 40 percent in Internet balloting.  Obama led the final tally 70.4% to 29.6%, clearing the supermajority required for the endorsement.
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
Waiting for Gore  —  It feels official: Barack Obama has momentum.  He won a resounding victory in South Carolina.  He just posted another astonishing fundraising total.  Gallup reports that he's pulled to within four points of Hillary Clinton.  And Ted Kennedy's endorsement Monday had the feel of history about it.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
MOVEON, CA SEIU TO ENDORSE OBAMA
Discussion: The Caucus, MyDD and Raising Kaine
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
MoveOn.org: Obama  —  by Mark Silva and updated with reaction
Discussion: The Politico
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
OBAMA'S “HARRY AND LOUISE” AD.  —  I was going to write a post about the health care exchange in last night's debate, noting that Hillary Clinton is basically arguing against Barack Obama's mandate from the wrong direction.  The problem isn't that it leaves people out, but that it effectively closes off …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
That health care mailer  —  The Clinton campaign convened a conference call with health policy experts to denounce Obama's new mailer, which attacks Clinton's plan for “forcing” Americans to sign up for insurance, and which features a couple at a kitchen table that recalls, for some …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Edwards Effect  —  So John Edwards has dropped out of the race for the presidency.  By normal political standards, his campaign fell short.  —  But Mr. Edwards, far more than is usual in modern politics, ran a campaign based on ideas.  And even as his personal quest for the White House faltered …
Paul Krugman:
Obama does Harry and Louise, again  —  The Obama campaign sends out an ugly mailer.  Sorry, but this is just destructive — like the Obama plan, the Clinton plan offers subsidies to lower-income families.  And BO himself has conceded that he might have to penalize people who don't buy insurance until they need care.
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Michael Ledeen / The Corner:
Suicide (NOT) Bombers in Baghdad
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Reuters:
Female bombers kill 72 at Baghdad pet markets
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Romney v. McCain v. Coulter v. Obama  —  If Ann Coulter's declares again that she'd campaign for Hillary at CPAC, she will be booed and rightly so.  Not only did her grandstanding on Hannity & Colmes divert attention from the real issue before conservatives —the need to abandon the idea …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Has Ann Coulter Finally Jumped The Shark?
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
John McCain=Benedict Arnold?
Discussion: Macsmind, Slate and The Corner
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on daily polling from Jan. 29-31, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as close as they have been since the polling program started at the beginning of 2008.
Wall Street Journal:
Romney's Convictions  —  Mitt Romney has emerged as the last Republican with a chance to stop John McCain, and there's no doubt he's a candidate from central casting: successful in business and politics, a family man, and quicker and more articulate than most.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Mitt Romney Conference Call
The Campaign Spot:
Highlights From Mitt Romney's Conference Call
Discussion: Hot Air
Sandy / Junkfood Science:
No fat people allowed: Only the slim will be allowed to dine in public!  —  It has actually happened.  Lawmakers have proposed legislation that forbids restaurants and food establishments from serving food to anyone who is obese (as defined by the State).  Under this bill …
New York Times:
Senator Wants N.F.L. Spying Case Explained  —  The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell to explain why the league destroyed evidence related to spying by the New England Patriots.  —  In the stretch of 12 days, from Sept. 9 to Sept. 20 …
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ESPN:
Senator wants to know why NFL destroyed Patriots spy tapes
Discussion: The Corner and Redstate
Michelle Malkin:
McCain: “I'll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep.”  —  The company John McCain keeps:  —  Russ Feingold.  Teddy Kennedy.  Lindsay Grahamnesty.  Juan “Mexico First/Free Flow” Hernandez.  Jerry “Spanish first” Perenchio.  Geraldo Rivera.  La Raza.  Charles Keating.  John Kerry.
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Digger / Diggers Realm:   Romney Appoints Hazleton Defender Kris Kobach To Advisor On Immigration
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Times Reporter Subpoenaed Over Source for Book  —  WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to a reporter of The New York Times, apparently to try to force him to reveal his confidential sources for a 2006 book on the Central Intelligence Agency, one of the reporter's lawyers said Thursday.
Wall Street Journal:
Buried WMD Scoop  —  Journalists are taught never to “bury the lead.”  Yet it looks as if that's precisely what CBS's “60 Minutes” did in reporter Scott Pelley's fascinating interview Sunday with George Piro, the FBI agent who debriefed Saddam Hussein following his capture in December 2003.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 
 
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Archconservative Sides With Democrat
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