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2:35 PM ET, February 5, 2008

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE POLLS  —  There's one guarantee I can make right now about tonight's results.  They are going take make either Zogby or SurveyUSA look like complete fools.  Which one I'm not completely sure, but definitely one of them.  —  Consider this spread.  Zogby has his final California number as Obama 49%, Clinton 36%.
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on daily polling from Feb. 2-4, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain fairly closely matched in national Democratic voters' nomination preferences, although Clinton appears to have stopped Obama's momentum over the past two days.
Discussion: The Washington Note
Josh Gerstein / Latest Politics:
Limbaugh Defends Clinton and Obama on Iraq  —  Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is so exasperated about Senator McCain's surge in the Republican presidential contest that he is coming to the defense of Senators Clinton and Obama.  —  On Mr. Limbaugh's program today, he said people should not be rushing …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Limbaugh on McCain: It's Better to Be Right All the Time  —  It may be the best sideshow in presidential politics: the nation's top radio talker trying to take down the Republican front-runner in today's Super Tuesday showdown.  —  Rush Limbaugh has been relentless in his criticism of John McCain …
Marc Ambinder:
On Super Tuesday, Romney Makes Himself And Bob Dole The Conversation  —  But ... if the goal is gin up resentment against McCain from party activists, maybe Dole isn't such a bad target.  —  After Dole sent a letter to Rush Limbaugh (kind of a weird choice, there), Romney told Fox News that Dole is …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Limbaugh says McCain's camp manipulated Bob Dole  —  The Conservative world is cracking up.  I told you yesterday that it was a bad idea for McCain to seek out Bob Dole to try and calm down Rush and the right wing talkie attacks on him.  Anyone could have predicted that wasn't a very good idea.
Discussion: Ice Station Tango and The Fix
John R. Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Our Politicized Intelligence Services  —  Today, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee (and Thursday on the House side) to give the intelligence community's annual global threat analysis.  These hearings are always significant …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   A Reworked NIE?  —  Former UN Ambassador John Bolton wants DNI …
Michael Luo / The Caucus:
Romney at the West Virginia Convention  —  CHARLESTON, West Va.—The 1,200 delegates who would determine how 18 of West Virginia's delegates are allocated at the Republican National Convention gathered inside a dingy hall at the civic center here this morning.
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Marc Ambinder:   West Virginia Intrigue
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Picking up, putting aside the poor  —  Some political moments are so bizarre that you have to believe they actually are sincere.  —  One such moment came this weekend, when Barack Obama mocked John Edwards in a speech.  —  Obama had done it before, but that was before Edwards suspended his campaign last Wednesday.
Discussion: Iddybud Journal
Bruce Fein / Washington Times:
Power of the purse purloined?  —  Jan. 28, 2008, is a date that will live in congressional infamy.  Congress surrendered the power of the purse over national security affairs to the White House.  —  President Bush appended a signing statement to the National Defense Authorization Act …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Cooper Concerns  —  I'm not a Hillary-hater.  She's been an outstanding senator.  She hung tough on Iraq through the dark days of 2005.  In this campaign, she has soldiered on bravely even though she has most of the elected Democrats, news media and the educated class rooting against her.
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Attorney General Reverses Curbs On Gay Group at Justice Department  —  Five years after a gay advocacy group was told that it could no longer use the e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms at the Justice Department, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has reversed that decision and issued …
Little Green Footballs:
Dreaming of Super Tuesday  —  Super Tuesday is upon us.  I tossed and turned all night, haunted by the ghosts of Rudy and Duncan.  And when I awoke, it was all not a dream—we really do have to choose between McCain and Romney.  —  Sometime during that unrestful interval, I decided: I'm pulling the lever for Mitt Romney today.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Marc Ambinder:
Delegates In California: A Caution  —  If, in many congressional districts in California, a Democrat does not receive more than 62% of the vote, he or she will receive the same number of delegates from that CD as the he or she who finishes second.  (Only Clinton and Obama will earn viability — above 15% in those CDs.)
Discussion: D-Day and Cogitamus
 
 
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