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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
CHILL OUT....The hot topic of conversation right now is the proposition that a long, drawn-out Democratic primary runs the risk of destroying the party and putting John McCain in the White House. So for the good of the country, Hillary should withdraw. — Now, this might be true.
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Bush: McCain ‘Is Not Going To Change’ My Foreign Policy — At the White House today, President Bush threw his support behind Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). In a press conference after a private lunch, a reporter asked the duo how McCain would “make the case that you're going to provide the change that the voters seem to want.”
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama: ‘Premature’ to talk joint ticket — Speaking to reporters on his plane before leaving San Antonio for Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama hinted at taking a tougher line against Clinton in the coming weeks, telling reporters that she must back up her experience argument with details, my colleague Carrie Budoff Brown reports.
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WCBS-TV:
Clinton Hints At Sharing Ticket With Obama — NEW YORK (CBS) ― Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted at the possibility of a Democratic “dream ticket” with Sen. Barack Obama. — Speaking on “The Early Show” on CBS, Clinton said “that may be where this is headed, but of course we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket.”
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Obama camp: What's Clinton hiding' — (CNN) - Barack Obama's campaign took fresh aim at Hillary Clinton Wednesday for refusing to release her tax returns, asking in a memo circulated to reporters, “What does Clinton have to hide?” — “In the face of her unwillingness to release her tax returns …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Camp, Getting Down To Business, Slams Hillary On Tax Returns — Obama campaign advisers are already making good on promises to confront Hillary much more aggressively on new fronts, hammering her on a conference call over her failure to release her tax returns.
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
It's Rush Wot Won It — In the days running up to these last primaries, Rush Limbaugh told his national audience of conservatives to vote in the Democratic race. … It turned into a pretty hot meme in Texas, and on Monday, while Rush was out, guest host Mark Davis scored an interview with Bill Clinton.
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Tom Bevan / Real Clear Politics:
Was It Rush? — I've been doing a number of radio interview this morning and the question keeps popping up: did Rush Limbaugh put Hillary over the top in Texas? Some quick, back-of-the-envelope math based on the exits shows: — Republicans represented 9% of the electorate in Texas.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton 48%, Obama 44% — Based on polling conducted March 2-4, 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — Hillary Clinton has moved ahead of Barack Obama in national Democratic nomination preferences, 48% to 44%, in polling conducted Sunday through Tuesday.
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Frank James / Baltimore Sun:
Fla. and Mich. guvs: Seat our delegates — Forget the fact that the state legislatures in both Michigan and Florida were forewarned that if they moved up their states' primary dates their states would be penalized by the Democratic and Republican National Committees.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Nasty — Sadly, I agree with Chris that this is going to get nastier. The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of this is just relatively harmless virtual …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
VITRIOL....Atrios: … This has sort of taken me by surprise too.
VITRIOL....Atrios: … This has sort of taken me by surprise too.
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Brad / Sadly, No!:
Thanks for publishing this moron, WaPo — Ugh. Charlotte Allen's chat over at the WaPo is bloody painful: … In other words: sure, more women are graduating from law school and medical school, but they'll only comprise the stupid doctors and lawyers. — In other news …
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush May Fire CentCom Chief Adm. Fallon, Replace With Commander More ‘Pliable’ To War With Iran — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has called CENTCOM commander Adm. William Fallon “one of the best strategic thinkers in uniform today.” Fallon opposed the “surge” in Iraq and has consistently battled …
Gateway Pundit:
CAPTURED FARC COMPUTERS NAME BARACK OBAMA (Updated) — Captured FARC documents name Obama — Dead terrorist Raul Reyes had information that FARC was meeting “gringos” about Obama. — The computers captured this past weekend by Colombian soldiers at the campsite of FARC #2 Raul Reyes contained loads …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Rep. Ellison: Clinton Trying To Reap Benefit Of Obama-Muslim Smear — The Clinton campaign flatly denies any hand in the Obama-is-a-Muslim smear campaign that has bubbled beneath the media surface, but it is more than willing to take advantage of it, says the lone Muslim member of congress.
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