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10:50 PM ET, March 5, 2008

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Marc Ambinder:
DNC Lays Out Choice For Florida And Michigan: Rules, Re-Vote  —  Howard Dean will not bend the party rules to grandfather in the disputed delegates from Michigan and Florida, the Democratic party chairman said in a statement today.  —  Instead, he put the state parties on notice …
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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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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.
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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Netroots Shift  —  You can sense a change in the left-liberal blogosphere.  They have now become quite virulently anti-Clinton.  As often, Kos leads the pack.  Part of me wonders whether the Clintons understand this.  They don't care juch for the netroots, to put it mildly …
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
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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 …
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.
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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Media Matters for America:
Olbermann to Matthews: “[E]specially you” should “[d]istance yourself as far as you can from” the word “bitch”  —  During MSNBC's March 5 coverage of the March 4 Democratic presidential primaries and caucus, NBC News anchor Brian Williams and MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann discussed …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Eschaton
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.
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Moving Forward: Obama Needs To Win Pennsylvania  —  I had a difficult time falling asleep last night, as I couldn't shake the feeling that something terrible had happened.  On the one hand, there is still pretty much no way for Clinton to win without a protracted fight involving superdelegates …
Marc Ambinder:
Some New Projections: Scenario Gertrude  —  Allocating (generously), 60 percent of the remaining superdelegates to Clinton and running the following projections through Forbes's delegate calculator, I've come up, quite unexpectedly, with a 1,976 to 1,976 delegate tie.  I'll call this scenario “Gertrude.”
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 …
Jerusalem Post:
Ashkelon man builds homemade missile  —  Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government's failure to do so - is some vigilante justice.  —  Nissimpor developed a homemade 200-millimeter ballistic missile …
 
 
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Nasty  —  Sadly, I agree with Chris that this is going to get nastier.
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Gateway Pundit:
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