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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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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 …
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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 …
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David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Republicans for Hillary: The Anecdotal Evidence Builds — A bit earlier today I talked to Onzelo Markum, a Texas Republican strategist who's working on the Chris Peden campaign, and he had a few caveats about how GOP voters might be breaking. One positive factor for Peden, he suggested …
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 …
Michelle Malkin:
Move America Forward's Melanie Morgan cut from KSFO, vows to continue conservative activism — Move America Forward's Melanie Morgan is one of my favorite conservative activists. She's led countless battles against anti-military goons in the San Francisco Bay Area, traveled to Iraq …
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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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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Melanie Morgan let go from KSFO: with audio & video — This kind of news makes Mondays feel pretty good. (h/t Scarce) … Talk radio took a big step forward after today. I guess it's just a matter of time before some wingnut operation picks up this MAFer.
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:Suleman's Destruction Of Talk Radio Fuels Calls For Termination
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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.
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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.”
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Number To Watch On Tuesday Night — With the Clinton campaign now saying they will stay in the race even if they lose delegates in Texas, it's worth putting into perspective just how difficult it would be for them to close Barack Obama's lead in pledged delegates.
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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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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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Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton's anti-Obama zinger of the day — It's a theme she's been driving home for days now, a variant on the “experience” argument she's flogged with mixed success. — Sen. Hillary Clinton was up very early this morning — before dawn, in fact — to shake hands at a factory gate …
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Martin Arostegui / Washington Times:
South America on brink of war — SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — South America was on the brink of war yesterday as Venezuela and Ecuador amassed troops on the Colombian border in response to the killing of a Marxist rebel leader. — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to join the rebels …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Pressing Issues — The blogosphere is all abuzz about this outrageous Charlotte Allen piece in the WaPo yesterday saying women are dumb. It was over the top, but frankly I'm a little bit surprised that everyone is so shocked. It doesn't seem much more obscene than the fare we've heard from the right for years.
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Reuters:
Inspired by God, Hamas fighters battle on — Abu Mohammed picked up his rifle, said farewell to his wife and six children and went out to face the Israeli tanks, helicopter gunships and missile-firing airborne drones. — “Being unable to defeat Israel is no reason to surrender,” …
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Marc Ambinder:
Existential Realities Of The Democratic Race — Q. What does “win” mean? — A. The winner of the Democratic nomination is not the person who wins the most states, not the person who wins the most votes, is not the person who gives the best speeches... it's the person who wins 2024 (25? …
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 …
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