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7:00 PM ET, March 4, 2008

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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Hillary's Math Problem  —  Forget tonight.  She could win 16 straight and still lose.  —  NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE  —  Hillary Clinton may be poised for a big night tonight, with wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.  Clinton aides say this will be the beginning of her comeback against Barack Obama.
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Zogby:
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 …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BIG WINNER MCCAIN?
Discussion: Blogometer
OPENERS:
GOP voters crossing over in large numbers  —  Poll watchers throughout Ohio are noting large numbers of Republican voters crossing over to vote in the Democratic Primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.  —  In the Republican roost of Chagrin Falls, veteran poll worker Liz McFadden …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 45%, Clinton 45%  —  Based on polling conducted March 1-3, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tied once again, with 45% of Democratic voters nationwide preferring each as the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
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 …
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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” …
Marc Ambinder:
Ohio Secretary Of State's Office Rebukes Obama Campaign  —  Ohio's Secretary of State, an office held by a Democrat, has rebuked Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for trying to staff precincts with poll workers who presented insufficient credentials.  —  Obama's campaign calls this charge “wrong.”
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Marc Ambinder:
Early Views From The Clinton/Obama Campaigns
Discussion: Open Left and MyDD
Laura Heinauer / Postcards:   Democratic Party warns against caucus shenanigans
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Why is Obama's skin blacker than normal in Hillary's new attack ad?  —  DailyKos has the original scoop.  I went and got the original footage from the Clinton ad, and then compared it to 3 different video clips of the same debate from 3 different sources.  I did this so as to take into account …
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Little Green Footballs:
Idiotic Nutroots Scandal of the Day - Update: Now with Throbbing Obama!  —  Yes, the Daily Kos Kooks are now accusing Hillary Clinton of “darkening” an image of Barack Obama that appears in a video posted at the Clinton site: Nutroots accuse Hillary of darkening footage of Obama to make him look “blacker”.
Discussion: Hot Air and Threat Level
Fox News:
Questions Raised Whether Hillary Ad Darkened Obama
Discussion: QandO
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.
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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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton campaign: “irregularlties”; Obama aide: Clinton “may want …
Discussion: Buckeye State Blog
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Script of Clinton Radio Ad Provided by Obama Campaign
Discussion: Fact Checker, MOMocrats and NO QUARTER
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
As Four States Vote, Clinton Talks About a Long Battle  —  As voters in Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont and Texas headed to the polls potentially to decide the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged voters to settle in for a nomination fight that could roll on for months to come.
Discussion: The Politico and Below The Beltway
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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 …
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
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Doug Mataconis / Below The Beltway:
Picture Of The Day: Earth And Moon As Seen From Mars … Click image for higher resolution.  —  Full story here.
Discussion: Achenblog and Middle Earth Journal
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.
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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Ed OKeefe / Political Punch:
Clinton Texas Coordinator: ‘3 AM’ Ad Too Late
Discussion: Spin Cycle and Marc Ambinder
Associated Press:
Highlights of Early Exit Poll Results
Marisa Taylor / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Law enforcement officials secretly profiling immigrants
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Cindy McCain brings up “3 in the morning” call
June Kronholz / Wall Street Journal:
Yet Another Democratic Wrinkle: Add-Ons
Omar El Akkad / Globe and Mail:
Khadr lawyers allege Cheney linked to video release
Discussion: Think Progress and Emptywheel
Laurence H. Tribe / Wall Street Journal:
Sanity and the Second Amendment
Jeff Greenfield / Slate:
Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck
 Earlier Items: 
Journalism.org:
PRESS TAKES A HARDER LOOK AT OBAMA—AND ITSELF
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama to press: Don't buy into HRC claims
Discussion: Wonkette
Ali / Think Progress:
Despite Broad Coverage Of Global Warming Deniers Conference …
Michelle Malkin:
D&D co-creator Gary Gygax, R.I.P.
Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Mukasey's Paradox
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
The Day After  —  Tonight's results will matter a lot, of course.
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Defining Moment  —  The Democratic presidential primary …
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

 
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