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Zogby:
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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Quinnipiac University:
Clinton Leads Obama By 4 Points In Ohio Dem Primary Quinnipiac University Likely Voter Poll Finds; Big Split Among Men, Women Voters — New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's margin over Sen. Barack Obama among Ohio likely Democratic primary voters has shrunk to 49 - 45 percent on the eve …
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.
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Chicago Tribune:
The latest from the Rezko trial — Gavel-to-gavel coverage from the court house: We're Bob Secter and Jeff Coen from the Tribune, and we will be your on-line guides to this politically explosive trial. Check back several times a day over the next several months to keep in touch with the twists …
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Rezko's day in court — Jury selection begins today in the trial …
Rezko's day in court — Jury selection begins today in the trial …
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The Corner
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.
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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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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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.
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Party Squabbles Leave Nominations Deadlocked
Party Squabbles Leave Nominations Deadlocked
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Think Progress
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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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.
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.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
House Democratic leadership: not just complicit but also self-destructive — The signs are unmistakably clear that what was always inevitable — full compliance by the House Democratic leadership with Bush's demands on warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty — is now imminent.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Deliverance or Diversion? — After their victory in the 2006 Congressional elections, it seemed a given that Democrats would try to make this year's presidential campaign another referendum on Republican policies. After all, the public appears fed up not just with President Bush, but with his party.
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Salon, BuzzMachine, Brendan Nyhan, Norwegianity, Liberal Values, Prairie Weather, Daniel W. Drezner, Bark Bark Woof Woof, TigerHawk and Eunomia