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5:40 PM ET, February 10, 2008

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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Clinton Campaign Manager Calls It Quits  —  Former First Lady's Chief of Staff to Take Over Running Presidential Race  —  Patti Solis Doyle announced that she is stepping down as the campaign manager for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-N.Y., ABC News has learned that this afternoon.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton campaign manager out  —  Clinton's campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, left the position today, to be replaced by Clinton's former top White House aide, Maggie Williams.  The change formalizes a shift in the campaign's power structure that began to set in after Clinton's win in New Hampshire,
Discussion: GINA COBB
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Clinton Campaign Manager Steps Aside  —  Patti Solis Doyle, the campaign manager for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (N.Y.) presidential bid has stepped down from that post and will be replaced by longtime Clinton operative Maggie Williams.  —  “This week Maggie will begin to assume the duties …
Discussion: MyDD
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Clinton Campaign Shake-Up: Patti Solis Doyle Fired  —  Hillary Clinton Campaign Director Patti Solis Doyle has been fired.  —  Maggie Williams will now take her place.  Mark Penn stays where he is, for the time being.  —  Big news.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Donklephant
Jeff E. Schapiro / inRich.com:
Poll: Obama, McCain lead in Va.  —  Both enjoy sizable leads over rivals as primary approaches Tuesday  —  Barack Obama and John McCain may be cruising toward blowout wins in Virginia's presidential primary Tuesday.  —  Among the Democrats, the poll conducted for the Richmond Times-Dispatch …
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CNN:
Obama gains momentum; McCain still leads handily  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama swept Saturday's Democratic contests, giving him considerable momentum heading into Sunday's Maine caucuses and three primaries Tuesday.  —  John McCain, however, was handed a starkly different message from the GOP …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Obama Gets Convincing Wins in 3 States
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Obama, Clinton turn eyes to McCain
Washington Post:
Obama Handily Wins Nebraska, Louisiana, Washington
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A LITTLE WEIRD  —  As you know, John McCain lost two of the three contests yesterday.  He was losing narrowly in Washington state and then pulled ahead by a narrow margin (less than two points) toward the end.  But then with 87% of the returns counted, the Washington state GOP, which runs the caucuses stopped releasing results.
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Newsweek:
Accounting 101: The Clintons  —  Where did Hillary Clinton get the money for her $5 million loan to her campaign?  —  Jonathan Torgovnik for Newsweek  —  On Board: Hillary and Bill Clinton on her campaign plane last month  —  Hillary and Bill Clinton are not nearly as wealthy as, say …
Discussion: Macsmind and Outside The Beltway
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Dave Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Driving A Wedge  —  The Drudge Report is a right-wing site that is used to drive right-wing propaganda into the large, corporate media outlets.  When a story is featured at the Drudge Report, you always have to ask why, and ask what is the right's intent behind getting this story into circulation.
Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
Wilder Still Sore Over Clinton Comment … RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The nation's first elected black governor said Saturday he is not ready to excuse comments former President Bill Clinton made about Barack Obama.  —  In campaigning for his wife last month on the eve of the New Hampshire primary …
Discussion: Liberal Values
Matthew Yglesias:
The Rules of the Game  —  Chris Bowers is outraged by the prospect of superdelegates determining the winner of the Democratic primary.  Kevin Drum is blasé.  I'll take a middle ground view — I think Chris is right to think it'd be a pretty bitter pill to swallow if that's how things shake out …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:   Tad Devine, man of the hour
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Chris Wallace: probing, hard-nosed journalist  —  Chris Wallace interviewed George Bush today on Fox News and, after asking Bush about his views on waterboarding, this was the “question” which Wallace — sitting next to Bush in front of a cozy fireplace (after a borderline-romantic stroll …
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Fox News:   FNS w/ Chris Wallace
Associated Press:
Bin Laden popularity fades in Pakistan  —  Respondents also show support for Bhutto's party, distrust of Musharraf  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Sympathy for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the Taliban has dropped sharply in Pakistan amid a wave of deadly violence, according to the results of a recent opinion poll.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
The Moran endorsement  —  That's a useful nod in Northern Virginia, but comes with serious baggage, in the form of long-running dislike of Moran in active parts of the Jewish community.  Moran's suggestion that the Israel lobby helped start the Iraq War drew him wide condemnation on Capitol Hill, including from Pelosi.
Eli Stokols / cw2.trb.com:
DeGette could be caught in cross-hairs of superdelegate scenario  —  Some Dems wonder if Clinton-backer will be loyal to politics or principle  —  DENVER (KWGN) — Much has been made of the record turnout of Democratic voters in the presidential primaries and caucuses that have been held thus far.
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Washington Post:
796 Insiders May Hold Democrats' Key
Discussion: The Heretik and New York Times
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
The Waxman Method  —  Howard Krongard worked his last day at …
Discussion: Redstate