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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008 — Based on daily polling from Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — John McCain continues to be the primary beneficiary of Rudy Giuliani's recent exit from the Republican race for president. The percentage of Republican primary voters nationwide favoring McCain …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
SURPRISINGLY LIBERAL — It's by no means unanimous, but as the primary season draws to a close, most conservatives are coalescing around Mitt Romney. A group called Citizens United Political Victory Fund produced this ad, which I think is simple but effective:
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Romney Rising? — Amidst all of the stormy polling clouds, a little ray of sunshine has broken over the Romney campaign. Rasmussen shows Romney slowly climbing into a tie nationwide with John McCain in its daily tracking poll. It also shows John McCain gaining strength at the same time:
Marc Ambinder:
Romney Easily Wins Maine's Republican Caucuses (Updated) — According to the Associated Press, Mitt Romney won 53% of the vote, followed not at all closely by John McCain, who won 21% and Ron Paul, who won 19%. — Mr. Romney's campaign spent money to turn out voters, whereas Mr. McCain's did not.
Charles Mahtesian / The Politico:Most GOP govs shun Romney
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Peter Gelzinis / Boston Herald:Mitt happened to Mass., so let's return the favor
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ABCNEWS:
New Celeb-Filled Music Video for Obama — Song from Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am Inspired by Obama Speech — Celebrity-filled music videos have been used to support many social movements, from famine relief for Africa, to support for American farmers, to opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
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Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
No Mea Culpa From Bill Clinton — UPDATE, 4:30 p.m. ET: It looks like former president Bill Clinton will not have to make an apology to the congregations of black churches in South Central Los Angeles after all. At least not in writing. — Our posting on Bill Clinton's “mea culpa” tour …
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
“Paid For By Obama For America” — I heard a powerful Obama ad on K-Earth 101 while driving this morning. That's the '60s/'70s rock station. The pitch combined some fine Obama audio on change and the future with clips from the scores of newspaper endorsements the Illinois senator has racked up.
Washington Post:
Obama Is Racing Against the Clock — Sen. Barack Obama has two opponents: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the clock, which is rapidly running down. — With three days to go before Super Tuesday, when roughly half the delegates in the Democratic presidential contest will be awarded …
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Dan Gerstein / Wall Street Journal:
Decline of the Angry Left — Last Saturday's South Carolina Democratic primary will probably be remembered as the day when the party's emotional dam burst and many of the personal grievances and tensions that have built up over the past generation spilled out into the open …
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Michael Elmore / Political Radar:
Obama Defends Driver's Licenses for Illegals in Interview with ABC News — ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told ABC's David Muir Saturday that his support for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants will not block his path to the White House because he and G.O.P …
The Huffington Post:
FundRace: CNN's Bill Bennett Never Disclosed GOP Donations — Last December, conservative author and CNN election analyst William J. Bennett gave several thousand dollars to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, a fact that Bennett has not mentioned during any of his appearances on the network …
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New York Post:
LET LYNNE STEWART ROT — Might terror-coddling attorney Lynne Stewart get her just deserts after all? It is to be hoped. — A three-judge federal appeals panel heard arguments Tuesday from prosecutors seeking a harsher sentence for Stewart, who was given just 28 months in prison in 2006 …
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
It's a shame one of them has to win — President McCain? Or Queen Hillary? Henry Kissinger said about the Iran/Iraq war in the '80s that it's a shame they both can't lose. Conservatives have a slightly different problem: It's a shame that neither of them will lose - that …
Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner:
The Jobs Numbers — Seems to me that everyone is making too big a deal out of the January jobs report. My local paper's top story was the estimate that the total number of jobs fell by 17,000. If that estimate is revised later, to look better, I'm guessing it won't be the top story.
Bill Quick / Daily Pundit:
the war for the gop — I wrote the following on February 19th, 2006. — Daily Pundit » A Deal Was Made … I elaborated on the idea here: … I remind you of this as a prelude to my analysis of what is happening in the current GOP primary race, and why it is happening the way it is.
Michael Oreskes / New York Times:
The Party Animal Either Plays Well or Fights Well — SOMETIMES the simplest of arguments can reveal the deepest of divisions. Take the dispute between Senator Barack Obama and the Clintons over the legacy of Ronald Reagan. The episode began in Reno, Nev., you will recall …
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Patrick Ruffini:
Intransigent Huck Voters — The Romney campaign's February 5th math is simple: move all the voters from the Huckabee pile onto theirs and claim a majority of conservatives. Unfortunately, it's just not that simple. — In the South — still more delegate-rich per capita than NY, CA, NJ …
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