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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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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle Poll: Too Close To Call! Obama Barely Overtakes Clinton in Ohio and Retains Small Edge in Texas ...
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Nearly Final Ohio and Texas Polls—Updated
Nearly Final Ohio and Texas Polls—Updated
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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 …
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Marc Ambinder:
Back To Basics On The Major Question Of The Democratic Campaign — As we approach the point where Hillary Clinton has to clobber Barack Obama and begin to win delegates or fade away, the candidates are finally debating what is, to many, the central question of any presidential campaign …
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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.
Dan / Daniel W. Drezner:
THE THREE RULES TO UNDERSTANDING CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS — In the wake of Canadian memos flying about on what exactly Obama's chief economist told a Canadian consular official, Noam Scheiber asks a befuddled question: … Based on my extensive experience with the people of the Great White North …
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
NAFTA-Gate, Take Two — Okay, scratch what I said about Goolsbee and Canada.
NAFTA-Gate, Take Two — Okay, scratch what I said about Goolsbee and Canada.
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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.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Victory on Telecom Immunity, Greenwald Hardest Hit
Victory on Telecom Immunity, Greenwald Hardest Hit
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Mcjoan / Daily Kos:
FISA Fight: Communications trade group opposed to amnesty
FISA Fight: Communications trade group opposed to amnesty
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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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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.”
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 …
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.
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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 …
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 …
Lynn Sweet:
Obama and his taking questions about Rezko.UPDATE — 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 …
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 …