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7:05 PM ET, March 3, 2008

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Matthew Yglesias:
Good News for People Who Like Bad Predictions  —  I know a number of readers have been perturbed by my predictions of an Obama win, figuring that since I'm always wrong I'd jinxed things and put Hillary Clinton in a commanding position.  Well, I was reading Chris Bowers' analysis of the polls …
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Marc Ambinder:
Bottom Line From The Clinton Spin Call  —  Is that if Clinton wins the popular vote in Ohio and Texas, she's staying in the race.  —  Even if she loses the delegate race in Texas.  —  No doubt, this will make heads explode in Chicago.
NY Daily News:
Goodwin: Tuesday night might be Barack Obama's last chance to knock Hil out  —  You hear it everywhere: Tuesday is Hillary Clinton's last stand.  If she can't win Ohio and Texas, she's history.  —  True, mostly.  But it's not the whole story.  The rest goes like this: This is Barack Obama's third chance to knock her out.
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
NAFTA-Gate, Take Two  —  Okay, scratch what I said about Goolsbee and Canada.  I still don't think it's substantively a big deal, but between hearing CNN's reports from Ohio this morning, and listening in on a Clinton conference call just now (and hearing reporters' questions on the subject) …
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Wash Post editor says controversial piece was ‘tongue-in-cheek’  —  On the front of Sunday's Outlook section, in the Washington Post, two articles were placed under the banner, “Women vs. Women.”  —  It's the second piece, titled “We Scream, We Swoon.  How Dumb Can We Get?” …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Let's All Apologize To Obama For Misunderstanding Him  —  Apparently Obama spoke in a way that was widely misunderstood when he blasted Hillary over the weekend, and is now being criticized for it, which seems so unfair.  After all, we who are barely worthy ought to apologize for having misunderstood him, right?
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Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Every Voter Should Hear This Phone Call  —  In the closing hours before the March 4th elections, I wanted to share an amazing phone call with you.  It comes on the heels of a new tracking poll showing Hillary doing better than Sen. Obama against John McCain - as well as public polls …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and PoliGazette
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
A campaign mystery solved: HillaryIs44  —  I wrote in December about a mysterious pro-Clinton, anti-Obama website called HillaryIs44, a site that floated sharply negative information about Obama long before the word “Rezko” passed the lips of Clinton and her campaign, and that has been the subject …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Bang the Drum
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-Sex Unions  —  (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions.
Megan McArdle:
Why ask why?  —  Lots of people are talking about John McCain's lunatic pronouncement that “there's strong evidence” for the proposition that thimerosol, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines, causes autism.  This is nonsense on stilts.  While it might once have been a viable theory …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Campaigns as if Momentum Is Hers  —  AKRON, Ohio — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton does not look like a candidate who might drop out of the presidential race as early as Wednesday.  —  In a weekend dash of campaigning in Texas and Ohio before those states vote on Tuesday …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama camp: HRC needs double digits  —  In a statement emailed to reporters, and reiterated on a conference call just now, Obama's campaign Manager, David Plouffe, says: … “They were sitting on enormous leads as recently as two weeks ago,” he said on the call, dismissing the notion of a Clinton “comeback.”
Discussion: Swampland
Samir Al-Saadi / Arab News:
Man Butchers 15-Month-Old Nephew in Jeddah Supermarket  —  Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah were left reeling yesterday, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store's fruit and vegetable section.
David Rose / Vanity Fair:
The Gaza Bombshell  —  After failing to anticipate Hamas's victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs.  With confidential documents …
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
How did the Clinton campaign get here?  —  Just a few months ago, few imagined she'd be struggling to catch up to Obama.  But her team has been riddled with feuding and second-guessing at the top.  —  WASHINGTON — As they mapped out a campaign schedule for Bill Clinton …
Marc Ambinder:
Existential Realities Of The Democratic Race  —  Q. What does “win” mean?  —  A. The winner of the Democratic nomination is not the person who wins the most states, not the person who wins the most votes, is not the person who gives the best speeches... it's the person who wins 2024 (25? …
Lynn Sweet:
Obama and his taking questions about Rezko.  —  SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS—On Sunday, the chief strategist for the Obama campaign disagreed with my conclusion where I wrote that Obama has not talked to reporters who know the Tony Rezko story the best.  —  For more than a year …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Words Matter  —  CLICHÉ, NOT PLAGIARISM, IS THE PROBLEM WITH TODAY'S PALLID POLITICAL DISCOURSE.  —  One of the great moments among many in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is when we find the young Albert Brooks manning the phones in the campaign office of the man we know (and he does not) to be a double-dyed phony.
 
 
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Fox News:
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Frank James / The Swamp:
Focus group: Clinton's ‘3 am’ ad has little impact
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
What will the Republicans throw at Hillary Clinton in the fall?
Lauren Collins / New Yorker:
THE OTHER OBAMA  —  Michelle Obama and the politics of candor.
Discussion: Yeas & Nays and Too Sense
ABCNEWS:
Obama: ‘How Do You Know Any President Is Ready?’
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and TalkLeft
neo-neocon:
Having an epiphany about Obama
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Alexis Mainland / City Room:
Two Hot Dogs, a Drink, and a Nod to Obama
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
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An hour and a half with Barack Obama
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Matthew Yglesias:
The Race and the Media  —  The Clinton campaign is pushing hard …
Mcjoan / Daily Kos:
FISA Fight: Communications trade group opposed to amnesty
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Republicans for Hillary: The Anecdotal Evidence Builds
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Gun incident near President Bush's ranch
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
House Democratic leadership: not just complicit but also self-destructive
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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