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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008 — Based on polling conducted Feb. 13-15, 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — For several days, nationwide Democratic voters' preferences have been shifting toward Barack Obama in Gallup Poll Daily election tracking. Now, the Illinois senator enjoys …
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TOP CLINTON ADVISER SAYS SUPERDELEGATES WILL DECIDE ELECTION, OBAMA'S VICTORIES ‘IRRELEVANT’ — A top Hillary Clinton adviser on Saturday boldly predicted his candidate would lock down the nomination before the August convention by definitively winning over party insiders and officials known …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Gallup Poll: Obama Opens “First Statistically Significant Lead” Against Clinton — A new Gallup poll shows Illinois Senator Barack Obama widening his national lead against Senator Hillary Clinton in their increasingly heated battle for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination …
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:CLINTON CAMP: ALL THE WAY TO CONVENTION
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Right slams Obama as ‘shady Chicago socialist’ — Republicans are out to crush Barack by painting him as a leftwinger with dubious support — LEADING Republicans believe they can trounce Barack Obama in the presidential election by tarring him as a shady Chicago socialist.
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Obama as the Next McGovern? — The TimesOnline says the right wing is set to attack Barack Obama s the ultimate “liberal socialist” in the mold of George McGovern. … Sample attack: … More... I was struck earlier by Obama's statement that the solution to the Florida primary election is to hold caucuses.
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Late Night : One for the Girls … Readers Must Login or Create an Account to Comment — Jeralyn (5.00 / 1) (#3) … That's a really sweet video. (5.00 / 1) (#5)
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Where is Obama on Gun Rights? — Not surprisingly, here, there and everywhere. — He believes (as do I) that the Second Amendment conveys an individual right to bear arms. But, he supports reasonable regulations on those rights. So where does reasonable regulation end and infringement on an individual's rights begin?
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Andrew Romano / Newsweek Blogs:
Al Gore to the Rescue? — Stumper's Take: He foresaw global warming. He “took the initiative” on the Internet. And he knew exactly how Iraq would turn out. Who's to say that Al Gore hasn't known all along that the Democratic race would descend into some weird state of gridlock …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.B.I. Received Unauthorized E-Mail Access — WASHINGTON — A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court …
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
NY Times on “The Cult of Personality” — The Times constrasts “the cult of personality” with charisma. It's a long article. Here are the quotes I took from it: — I'll give the first round to the challenger, Barack Obama: … Next round goes to Sean Willnetz, a Princeton Historian and friend of Hillary's, who says:
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New York Times
Times of London:
Israel kills terror chief with headrest bomb — Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv, Hala Jaber in Beirut and Jon Swain — NOTHING seemed very remarkable about the short, bearded man who mingled with other guests on Tuesday evening at a reception in Damascus, the Syrian capital …
Lynn Davidson / NewsBusters.org:
Western Greenland Ice Growing; Still Global Warming — The lynchpin in the anthropogenic global warming theory is the shrinking Arctic ice, but now that some of that ice is actually increasing, scientists claim, without a trace of irony, it is normal for temperatures and ice sheets to fluctuate.
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
A Smiling, Fidgeting McCain, Learning to Rein Himself In — WASHINGTON — So this is what it looks like when the maverick becomes The Man. — Senator John McCain was sitting in the front of his fancy-pants front-runner's plane, trying to get comfortable.
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote — Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem's 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:Voting Malfunctions: Obama Votes in Harlem Not Counted
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Clif / Sadly, No!:
It's Easy To Be Brave From A Distance — From the safety of the Home of Economy store he manages in North Dakota, Pajamas Media blogger Rob Port takes the students of Northern Illinois to task for not throwing their laptops at the gunman in the recent shooting tragedy there:
Robin Wright / MSNBC:
U.S. scrambled to find Pakistani vote observers — Effort underscores bid to boost President Musharraf — With Pakistan's critical parliamentary election fast approaching, Bush administration officials began scrambling late last month to find a U.S. monitoring group willing to travel to Pakistan and observe the Feb. 18 vote.
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