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5:50 PM ET, February 4, 2008

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Jason George / The Swamp:
Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.  —  Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up …
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Obama erases Clinton's lead  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton is losing ground to Sen. Barack Obama in a national CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released on the eve of critical Super Tuesday presidential primaries and caucuses.  —  The two are virtually tied …
New York Magazine:
Breaking: Hillary Reemploys ‘The Cry’  —  Yep, it's official.  Hillary Clinton is running to be Crybaby-in-Chief.  According to the Tribune Co.'s politics blog, the Swamp, Clinton teared up after a heartfelt introduction by a former colleague at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, where she worked in college.
Discussion: Wonkette and TIME: Swampland
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on daily polling from Feb. 1-Feb. 3, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — On the eve of the Super Tuesday election, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain closely matched in national Democratic voters' nomination preferences.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
PULLING THE LEVER....So who am I going to vote for tomorrow?  Answer: Barack Obama.  —  I've got some good reasons and some bad reasons for changing my mind.  The good reasons include (a) the ugliness coming out of the Clinton camp over the past couple of weeks, which has turned me off …
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Josh Patashnik / The New Republic:
Vote McCain—Because Life Expectancy Is Going Up
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Little Green Footballs:
Muslims Enraged, Seething at Wikipedia  —  Apparently there are a whole lot of Muslims enraged and offended at Wikipedia, because there are ... gasp ... drawings and images of Mohammed in his Wikipedia entry.  —  Blasphemy!  —  So they're demanding that Wikipedia stop violating …
Michael J. Totten:
The Final Mission, Part II  —  FALLUJAH - The United States military plans to formally hand over Anbar Province to the Iraqis this spring because the insurgency truly is finished in that part of the country.  Most Americans have heard about the success in this province by now …
Discussion: INDCJournal
Marc Ambinder:
Plouffe Memo: We're The Giants, Baby  —  (not in so many words...despite or because of polls showing that Obama is now leading or tied with Hillary Clinton nationally.). … I'm sorry.  Hold up, time out.  What??  Unless every Obama adviser I've spoken to over the past year has out and out lied to me …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
HUD Chief Accused of Retaliation  —  Philadelphia Officials Sue After Land Dispute  —  Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson demanded that the Philadelphia Housing Authority transfer a $2 million public property to a developer at a substantial discount, then retaliated against the housing authority …
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
‘Digital Pamphleteer’  —  Several months ago, my good friend Bill Simmon, a terrific filmmaker (and blogger), came to me with an idea: he wanted to do a short film about blogging, starring ... me.  Now, I've never been entirely comfortable in front of a camera — I'm more of a behind …
Daniel J. Chacon / Rocky Mountain News:
DNC boost for sex biz  —  Denver can expect prostitution spike during convention  —  Political tricks may not be the only ones turned during the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August.  —  The sex and adult entertainment industries are expecting a boom in business …
Matt Stearns / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Clinton's ‘35 years of change’ omits most of her career  —  WASHINGTON — To hear Hillary Clinton talk, she's spent her entire career putting her Yale Law School degree to work for the common good.  —  She routinely tells voters that she's “been working to bring positive change to people's lives for 35 years.”
Southern Political Report:
Romney surges against McCain in Georgia; Obama gains on Hillary in Alabama  —  The Georgia Republican presidential primary race could break either way.  John McCain has a miniscule lead over Mitt Romney with one day until the election.  Romney is pounding the campaign pavement in Georgia today …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Republicans have become the credibility-free party  —  (updated below)  —  Substantial attention has been paid to the historic unpopularity of the Bush presidency, but relatively little attention has been paid to the accompanying collapse of the Republican Party's credibility.
 
 
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