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9:05 AM ET, March 4, 2008

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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: Should She Stay or Should She Go?  —  By a Large Margin, Dems Want Clinton to Remain in Race Even if She Loses Texas or Ohio  —  Democrats by more than a 2-1 margin say Hillary Clinton should stay in the presidential race even if she loses either the Texas or Ohio primary on Tuesday.
Discussion: Hot Air and culturekitchen
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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 …
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 …
USA Today:
Chummy Hillary Clinton hits ‘Daily Show’  —  NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton gamely appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Monday, the eve of crucial primary duels with Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas.  —  “Tomorrow is perhaps one of the most important days of your life …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and The Page
Washington Post:
If Clinton Wins in Ohio or Texas, Most Democrats Want Her to Stay in the Race  —  Two-thirds of Democrats say a victory in either Ohio or Texas would be reason enough for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) to keep her historic bid for the party's presidential nomination alive, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Discussion: Riehl World View and PSoTD
This Is London:
CLINTON AIDES NOW INSIST LOSSES IN TEXAS AND OHIO TOMORROW …
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Clinton plays victim and victimizer
Discussion: NY Daily News
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Karl / protein wisdom:
Dems 2008: Who dared to question the Obamessiah?  —  By now you may have heard all the buzz about Barack Obama aborting yesterday's press conference once it became clear that the assembled reporters wanted to ask about the Goolsbee flap and the Rezko trial, instead of hopeyness and changitude.
Discussion: WMAQ-TV
Josh Richman / Political Blotter:
Melanie Morgan canned from KSFO  —  Melanie Morgan — the conservative radio talk show host who chairs Move America Forward, the group which has led efforts to shame and boycott Berkeley for its anti-U.S. Marine Corps recruiting stand — has lost her job at KSFO 560 AM.
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Michelle Malkin:   Move America Forward's Melanie Morgan cut from KSFO, vows …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Melanie Morgan let go from KSFO: with audio & video
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Suleman's Destruction Of Talk Radio Fuels Calls For Termination
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft and PoliGazette
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Where Today Will Leave Us  —  I just wanted to run through what tonight's possible scenarios would mean:  —  1.)  Hillary wins both Ohio and Texas.  I don't see how this doesn't send us into a six-week-long battle for Pennsylvania.  Yes, Obama is still going to lead by more than 100 pledged delegates at the end of the night.
Discussion: Althouse
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Beth Frerking / The Politico:   Clinton: 'I'm just getting warmed up'
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Author Admits Acclaimed Memoir Is Fantasy  —  In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.
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.
Diana B. Henriques / New York Times:
Companies Are Piling Up Cash  —  At least someone knows how to fill a piggy bank.  —  Unlike most American consumers, whose failure to save has exasperated economists for years, the typical American corporation has increased its savings so sharply that it probably has enough cash on hand to completely pay off its debts.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Assbiting Strategy  —  Yglesias: … To the extent that this is about his successor, my guess is that they figure that Congress will rediscover its interest in oversight and objections to presidential executive power overreach.  The very powers Bush claimed will, for a Democratic president, be the foundation for impeachment.
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Matthew Yglesias:
No Oversight  —  Like everyone else, I sometimes wonder …
Discussion: Think Progress and Daily Kos
CNN:
Colombia: Evidence suggests Chavez gave FARC $300M  —  (CNN) — Evidence found in computers seized in a raid over the weekend suggests that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently gave the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia $300 million, Colombia's national police chief said Monday.
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Martin Arostegui / Washington Times:
South America on brink of war
Washington Post:
Wiretap Compromise in Works  —  FISA Update May Hinge On Two Separate Votes  —  House and Senate Democratic leaders are headed into talks today that they say could lead to a breakthrough on legislation to revamp domestic surveillance powers and grant phone companies some form of immunity …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Global Warming Skeptics Insist Humans Not at Fault  —  When Christopher Monckton, who served as a special adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, ponders the current political push to curb greenhouse gases linked to climate change, he thinks of King Canute.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
 
 
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R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Democrats expect no knockouts
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Discussion: TigerHawk and EconLog
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JUSTICE, AMERICAN STYLE....Halliburton, it turns out …
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