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5:00 AM ET, February 17, 2008

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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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You Decide 08!:
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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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)
Discussion: NO QUARTER
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Where is Obama on Gun Rights?
Discussion: Political Radar
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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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Clinton camp begins 11th hour effort
Discussion: Donklephant and Don Surber
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.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Robin Koerner / The Moderate Voice:
Change and Barack, America's First Leftist President?  —  The provocative claim of this piece from Mexico's La Jornada is that Barack would be the U.S.' first true leftist president - a conclusion drawn after broad (and generous) surveys of both Democratic candidates' strengths and qualifications.
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:
Discussion: New York Times
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.
Discussion: TownHall Blog and The Page
Zeeshan Haider / Reuters:
Bomb kills 37 on last day of Pakistan vote campaign  —  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb outside a Pakistani election candidate's office killed 37 people in the violent northwest on Saturday, the last day of campaigning for an election meant to complete a transition to civilian rule.
Discussion: Roger L. Simon and The Seminal
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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
Discussion: Brave New Films blog
 
 
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Aws Qusay / Reuters:
Attacks in Baghdad fall 80 percent: Iraq military
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Feminists For Clinton  —  A very well written letter from a group …
Paul Rogers / Mercury News:
Bill would require California's science curriculum to cover climate change
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Obama's Appeal (The Secret Thereof)
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Phoenix Police to Check Arrestees' Immigrant Status
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Margaret Carlson's Anti Hillary Email
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White House:
President's Radio Address
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Study Says Payday Lenders More Prevalent In Areas Of High Christian …
neo-neocon:
Whatever happened to those benchmarks?
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Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
By Making Holocaust Personal to Pupils, Sarkozy Stirs Anger
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Prosecutor, Under Fire, Steps Down in Houston
T-Steel / The Moderate Voice:
This is sexist? Really? For real?
 

 
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