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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
RUSSERT'S LOWEST MOMENT (AND THAT'S SAYING A LOT) — I discussed this in the live debate blog. But I think it's worth going back and watching Russert's run of shame here. I would say it was borderline to bring up the issue of Farrakhan at all. But perhaps since it's getting some media play …
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Senator Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
The Democratic Debate in Cleveland — The following is a transcript of the Democratic presidential debate on MSNBC in Cleveland, Ohio, as provided by the Federal News Service and CQ Transcriptions via The Associated Press. — PARTICIPANTS: — SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-IL) — MODERATORS:
Taylor Marsh / The Huffington Post:
Obama Blows his ‘Sister Soujah’ Moment — Clinton fights for children and families. — She fights for women's rights around the world. — She fights for health care. She fights for veterans' health care too. — After a year in the primary season, Hillary Clinton has found her theme: I'm a fighter.
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The Clang-Fest in Cleveland — About two-thirds of the way through the debate, Barack Obama took a question about Louis Farrakhan's support for his campaign. He gave a sufficient, if not quite stellar answer—saying he'd repeatedly denounced Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements, that he'd long been a supporter of Israel, etc.
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The Carpetbagger Report
Don Frederick / Los Angeles Times:
Obama's Farrakhan answer gives Clinton an opening — When you've debated as often as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have, it's hard to find fresh material to spar over. But — who knew? — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan provided such fodder Tuesday night.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:Live-Blogging Cleveland — 10.36 pm. Obama won it - quite easily.
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Talking Points Memo, Daniel W. Drezner, Democracy in America, Spin Cycle and Comments from Left Field
Duane R. Patterson / Townhall.com:
Hillary's Winning Ways Have Turned Into Whining Ways — Last week, Hillary Clinton waited until well into her debate with Barack Obama to utter the line of the night that cost her the debate. She had a scripted line to use about Barack Obama's change as being something you can Xerox, which fell flat and drew boos from the audience.
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Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
McCain has edge over Democrats — The GOP candidate is rated ‘strongest leader.’ The survey also shows Obama has a six-point lead over Clinton. — WASHINGTON — As he emerges from a sometimes- bitter primary campaign, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain poses …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:Clinton's superdelegates rejecting pleas to switch
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TownHall Blog
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Okay, enough with the shoe shopping. Let's live-blog the big debate. — 7:58 ET: I am so ready for this. It's do or die time for Hillary. And I'm watching the debate with a big Hillary supporter. I want to see some major action in the first 20 minutes. MSNBC is banging drums and hyping the debate (which starts in an hour).
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Jstearns / Save the Internet Blog:
Comcast Blocking: First the Internet — Now the Public — There was huge turnout at today's public hearing in Boston on the future of the Internet. Hundreds of concerned citizens arrived to speak out on the importance of an open Internet. Many took the day off from work …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
How Do We Defeat Tim Russert? — The country wants change. They want Washington to stop all the partisan bickering and they want a different tone. They want their government to be serious and deal with real problems. — Can someone please explain to me how that can possibly happen until something …
Tony Blankley / Real Clear Politics:
How to Beat Obama (Maybe) — Republicans owe Hillary our gratitude. She has road-tested several versions of attacks on Obama that don't work. Obviously, and first, don't come out against change and hope — the perennial themes of successful election campaigns.
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Power Line
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
GOP Halts Effort to Retrieve White House E-Mails — After promising last year to search its computers for tens of thousands of e-mails sent by White House officials, the Republican National Committee has informed a House committee that it no longer plans to retrieve the communications …
Trymaine Lee / New York Times:
Upset Sends Democrat to Albany — ALBANY — In a major victory for Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his party, a Democratic assemblyman won a stunning upset in a State Senate election on Tuesday in a district that has been in Republican hands for a century. — The win reduces the Republicans' majority …
BBC:
EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn — The European Commission has fined US computer giant Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour. — Microsoft must now pay a record 899 million euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it abused its position.
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Engadget
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Politics of Trade in Ohio — Watching Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton compete with each other to say the nastiest possible thing about the Nafta trade deal has made me think about the politics of abortion. — In campaign after campaign for more than 30 years now, Republicans have been denouncing Roe v. Wade.
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