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Jay Root / Houston Chronicle:
State Democrats say Clinton camp may sue — Legal action could disrupt or delay caucuses, party says — AUSTIN — The Texas Democratic Party warned Thursday that election night caucuses scheduled for Tuesday could be delayed or disrupted after aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton threatened …
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Alex Johnson / MSNBC:
Some Texas Republicans to vote for Obama — True support combines with stop-Clinton sentiment in next week's primary — One of Sen. Barack Obama's surest applause lines comes about halfway into his standard stump speech. It goes like this: — “They whisper to me.
Nitya / Political Radar:
Clinton Goes Nuclear: New Ad Tests Obama — ABC News' Nitya Venkataraman: Closing in on the March 4 contests, Sen. Hillary Clinton debuts a campaign ad today with ominous undertones. — “It's 3:00am and your children are asleep,” the voice over says. “There's a phone in the White House, and it's ringing.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
New Clinton ad is the scariest of cycle — Clinton is up with the scariest ad of the cycle, one that echoes, in a soft-focus way, some of President Bush's 2004 campaign spots. — It features a child sleeping in bed and an unnamed emergency ringing the White House phone …
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Marc Ambinder:
Clinton's “Red Phone” — Perhaps the most provocative ad Hillary Clinton has run this cycle. It's bound to evoke comparisons to LBJ's “Daisy” ad and Walter Mondale's “Red Phone” ads — asking the essential question: if the White House phone rings at 3:00 am and there's a crisis brewing, who do you want on the other end of the line?
Frank James / The Swamp:
Clinton ad: Who should take 3 am crisis call?
Clinton ad: Who should take 3 am crisis call?
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Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Texas: End of the Road For Hillary Clinton
Texas: End of the Road For Hillary Clinton
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CTV.ca:
Opponents slam Obama after CTV story on NAFTA — Allegations of double talk on NAFTA from the Obama and Clinton campaigns dominated the U.S. political landscape on Thursday. — On Wednesday, CTV reported that a senior member of Barack Obama's campaign called the Canadian embassy within …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: THE GOP'S DISADVANTAGES — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro — *** The GOP's Disadvantages: The New York Times' Nagourney does a smart preview piece of how Republicans are likely to go after Obama in a general election, and are already doing so …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama's NAFTA double-talk confirmed: CTV
Obama's NAFTA double-talk confirmed: CTV
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Little Green Footballs, Taylor Marsh, ABCNEWS, PoliGazette, Gateway Pundit, Betsy's Page and The Campaign Spot
Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle Poll: Obama Builds Lead Over Clinton in Texas, But Dem Race Too Close To Call in Ohio... Zogby News Releases
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Geoff Earle / New York Post:
TRIBES RAGE AT HILL — KENYAN BIGS: COME CLEAN IN PIX SMEAR — Angry tribal elders in Kenya are calling on Hillary Rodham Clinton to “clear her name” over any involvement in publication of photos of Barack Obama wearing a turban and African garb on a trip to his ancestral homeland.
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Economist:
Hope and fear — Democratic economic policy sounds worryingly populist — FOR a man who has placed “hope” at the centre of his campaign, Barack Obama can sound pretty darned depressing. As the battle for the Democratic nomination reaches a climax in Texas and Ohio …
Charles Mahtesian / The Politico:
Clinton seeks to regain the spotlight — There was a time not long ago when Hillary Clinton dominated the discourse in both parties' presidential contests. — Now, she's struggling to get her message out and remain part of the campaign conversation as the media and her remaining rivals …
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Guardian:
Israeli minister warns of Palestinian ‘holocaust’ — An Israeli minister today warned of increasingly bitter conflict in the Gaza Strip, saying the Palestinians could bring on themselves what he called a “holocaust”. — “The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range …
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Alon Bernstein / Associated Press:
Israel warns Gaza invasion impending
Israel warns Gaza invasion impending
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Did ‘SNL’ Go Beyond the Pale With Fauxbama? — Lorne Michaels Defends Casting Of Non-Black Man in Sketch — When Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president last year, some observers questioned whether the senator from Illinois was “black enough” to embody the hopes and aspirations of African Americans.
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Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
John McCain's Achilles Heel — No, it's not all his lobbyist buddies or that woman who looks strikingly like his wife. It's President Bush, who in a new national poll has surpassed Richard Nixon as the modern president with the highest negative rating. — Some 52 percent of those surveyed …
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CNN:
Police: Deadly toxin found at Las Vegas hotel — (CNN) — Police in Las Vegas, Nevada, are investigating the discovery of what they said is the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room. — Authorities were called to an Extended Stay America hotel around 3 p.m. PT Thursday after a man brought …
Nancy / nancynall.com:
Copycat. — I feel bad about what I'm going to do here. — I've had a lot of fun at Tim Goeglein's expense over the last few months. Mean-spirited fun, certainly, but my problem with him has always been one of personal taste. In his columns for The News-Sentinel, my old newspaper …