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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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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.
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 …
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 …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
OBAMA TANGLES WITH THE PRESS — From NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan — SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Led by the Chicago press corps that has covered Obama for years, the candidate today faced a barrage of questions in what turned out to be a contentious news conference.
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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.
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Obama and his taking questions about Rezko.UPDATE
Obama and his taking questions about Rezko.UPDATE
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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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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Suleman's Destruction Of Talk Radio Fuels Calls For Termination
Suleman's Destruction Of Talk Radio Fuels Calls For Termination
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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.
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.
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Gang Memoir, Turning Page, Is Pure Fiction — 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.
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.
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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.
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Associated Press:
Canadian leaders deny trying to interfere with U.S. election — TORONTO: Canada's conservative government Monday denied allegations it tried to influence the U.S election by leaking word of a meeting with Barack Obama's senior economic adviser who allegedly told Canadian officials …
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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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Nansen G. Saleri / Wall Street Journal:
The World Has Plenty of Oil — Many energy analysts view the ongoing waltz of crude prices with the mystical $100 mark — notwithstanding the dollar's anemia — as another sign of the beginning of the end for the oil era. “[A]t the furthest out, it will be a crisis in 2008 to 2012,” …
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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