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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 …
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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.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Penn Credits “3 AM” Ad With Momentum — UPDATE, 3 pm: Following up on their conference call earlier today, the Clinton campaign released a memo entitled: “Why Hillary Clinton is Ready to be Commander-in-Chief.” — In the memo, Mark Penn, the chief strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's …
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Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle Poll: Too Close To Call! Obama Barely Overtakes Clinton in Ohio and Retains Small Edge in Texas ...
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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?” …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama Adviser Denies Trade Remarks — SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — Barack Obama's senior economic policy adviser said Sunday that Canadian government officials wrote an inaccurate portrayal of his private discussion on the campaign's trade policy in a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
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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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ABCNEWS:
Obama: Witness for the Defense? — Chicago Lawyers Say Sen. Barack Obama Could Be Called to Testify in the Rezko Trial — Sen. Barack Obama could be called as a witness for his longtime friend and accused Illinois fixer Tony Rezko, according to Chicago lawyers following the case.
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 …
Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal:
McCain's Economy Platform: Big Tax Cuts, With Caveats — WASHINGTON — Imagining how John McCain, the Navy war hero, would play the role of commander in chief has been easy. Imagining how John McCain, the policy maverick, would lead as chief executive of the U.S. economy has been tougher.
Matthew Yglesias:
McCain and Thimerosol — Diagnoses of autism are unquestionably on the rise in the United States, and parents and other friends and family of autistic children are understandably looking for answers. At a time, there was some plausible speculation that thimerosal, an additive in some vaccines, might be a cause of autism.
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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.
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 …
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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.
Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
What the World Is Hearing — A senior Latin American diplomat says, ‘We might find ourselves nostalgic for Bush, who is brave on trade.’ — Despite their spirited squabbling, the two Democratic candidates are united in the view that one of the big benefits of electing either …
CNN:
Gun incident near President Bush's ranch — CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) — A Danish journalist came this close to getting shot Saturday by an elderly woman packing a pistol near President Bush's ranch here in what was easily the strangest incident I've ever witnessed covering the White House.
CNN:
No news, just ribs at McCain barbecue — SEDONA, Arizona (CNN) — Instead of appealing for votes on the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain spent the weekend playing host at his rustic Arizona home — and on Sunday members of the traveling press corps were his guests.