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9:15 PM ET, March 5, 2008

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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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Ross Douthat:
'68 or '96?  —  The problem facing the Democrats isn't exactly the one raised by Kevin Drum and debated here and here and here - the problem of 1968, that is, in which a long and nasty intra-party battle fatally weakens the eventual Democratic nominee going into the general election.
Discussion: American Spectator
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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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.
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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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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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.
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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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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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
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 …
Discussion: Swampland and Hullabaloo
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
Kos / Daily Kos:
Clinton campaign making Obama “blacker”  —  Or maybe more Muslim?  The sordid details are in this diary by Troutnut, but it can be distilled down to this:  —  As you can see, the campaign ad has darkened Obama's skin tone, while stretching the video horizontally to give Obama a wider nose.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Netroots Shift  —  You can sense a change in the left-liberal blogosphere.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
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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Alex Massie / The Debatable Land:
Clinton and Katyn  —  It's an election, of course, so no card must be left un-played.
ABCNEWS:
Rezko In Debt $50 Million; How Did He Afford Obama Lot?
Discussion: Hot Air and NO QUARTER
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
WHAT DO TEXAS DEMS AND WASH. ST. REPUBLICANS HAVE IN COMMON?
Erin Callender / Raleigh News & Observer:
CORRECTION  —  A report Friday in the City & State section …
William H. McMichael / Army Times:
Bush officials: Congress irrelevant on Iraq
Marc Ambinder:
Some New Projections: Scenario Gertrude
Matthew Yglesias:
Everyone Pays  —  I understand perfectly well that the sort …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Obama's Rezko ties escape national radar
Discussion: Salon
 Earlier Items: 
Sarabeth / 1115.org:
VERY FAR FROM OVER  —  I sat down to slice and dice …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Obama's First 100 Days  —  In the seesaw Democratic primary race …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Unemployed, and Skewing the Picture
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Crack Cocaine Sentence Cuts Now Underway
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
FISA vote pushed back again
Discussion: Hot Air and Flopping Aces
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The Warrior King  —  Bush just endorsed McCain and sounded like he's on a meth bender.
Gateway Pundit:
CAPTURED FARC COMPUTERS NAME BARACK OBAMA (Updated)
James Fallows:
More on Clinton, Obama, and the OODA loop
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Report: Garrett Ventry, who will join NBC News' Election Night coverage as a Republican pundit on election day, registered as an agent of Qatar in September

 
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