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Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle Poll: Clinton Rebounds as Closing Campaign Boosts Her Barely Ahead of Obama in Texas - Tied in Ohio! — Republican McCain leads in Texas and Ohio — UTICA, New York - On the strength of some strong campaigning in Ohio and Texas, Democrat Hillary Clinton …
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Clinton plays victim and victimizer — The stage has been set for a Hillary Clinton comeback on Tuesday. — Nobody knows if she has the votes to do it, but the opportunity is ripe. — She not only is vigorously attacking Barack Obama but simultaneously portraying herself as a victim.
John Harwood / New York Times:
For Democrats, a Pivotal Night, but in Which Direction?
For Democrats, a Pivotal Night, but in Which Direction?
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Fox News:
Rush Limbaugh Explains Why He's Urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to Vote for Hillary Clinton on Super Tuesday 2 — This is a rush transcript from “The O'Reilly Factor,” February 29, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — Watch “The O'Reilly Factor” …
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Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Limbaugh Caller Says Obama Reminds Daughter of Cartoon Monkey — ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh issued an on-air apology to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today after a caller said her daughter thought the Democratic presidential frontrunner looked …
CNN:
Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton — (CNN) - As Hillary Clinton battles to keep her presidential bid alive, she may be getting help from an unlikely source: conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. — Limbaugh has been actively urging his Texas listeners to cross over and vote …
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
The Day After — Tonight's results will matter a lot, of course. But only up to a point. It seems quite likely that Hillary will win Ohio and at least come close in Texas, and perhaps win the primary there—but won't run up large margins. Under most of the likely scenarios …
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Randyj / The Page:
Tom Brokaw Says Obama Has 50 More Superdelegates in His Back Pocket
Tom Brokaw Says Obama Has 50 More Superdelegates in His Back Pocket
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Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Angry Barack's Bam-barded by media — SAN ANTONIO, Tex. - An exasperated Barack Obama scurried away Monday from the toughest news conference of his campaign, telling reporters who kept shouting questions that he'd spent enough time on the grill. — “Come on!
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Abe Greenwald / Commentary:
An Iraqi Sea Change — Question: What is the most extraordinary thing about the following extraordinary sentence? … Answer: It is the lead of a story in today's New York Times. The paper of record, which for the past few years could accurately be described as a body count with a styles section …
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Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is ‘Telling Us What to Think’ — TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’ — Business & Media Institute — The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Ask Tough Questions? Yes, They Can! — SAN ANTONIO It took many months and the mockery of “Saturday Night Live” to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.
John Riley / Spin Cycle:
Latest Clinton tactic: Fake news reports — The Clinton campaign's latest tactic in Ohio is, apparently, a radio ad that tries to make listeners think it's a news report until the very end. — Stuff like this, if it succeeds in fooling voters, fairly seriously pollutes the information environment …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
A Defining Moment — The Democratic presidential primary campaign began around Christmas 2006, and it may end Tuesday night. But of all the days between then and now, the most important was Nov. 10, 2007. — On that day, the Democratic Party of Iowa held its Jefferson-Jackson dinner and invited the candidates to speak.
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Blogging While Female: 5 Conservative Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere — Every so often in the blogosphere, on the Left and the Right, hostile debates over gender seem to rise up to the surface like a leviathan from the depths. Some male bloggers tend to think women …
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Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Mukasey's Paradox — When you think about it, his manipulations are a beautiful, twisted thing. — The recent decisions of Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey to block any prosecution of Bush administration officials for contempt and to block any criminal investigation of torture led to a chorus of criticism.
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Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Are Women Dumb? — Whoa. I just read the Charlotte Allen piece in the Washington Post Outlook section that Kathryn linked to Sunday. (Unpromisingly Titled, “We Scream. We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?") I want to believe that the Post got as much dissident mail on that one as it deserved.
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Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton puts the media in its place — the men's room — In an obvious bid for the Ron Paul media conspiracy vote, Sen. Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign dumped the traveling press corps exactly where many voters believe they belong today — in the men's room of the Burger Activity Center.
The Politico:
Lobbyist to run McCain's Hill effort — Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with congressional Republicans — the most concrete sign yet that the biggest battleground in the 2008 presidential race …
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Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton campaign's dying light — We've seen the rage. She should now go gentle into the political night. … When Dylan Thomas wrote those lines in 1951, he did not intend them as political advice. But if he were alive today, he'd surely admire Hillary Clinton's campaigning style.