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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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Frank James / Baltimore Sun:
Fla. and Mich. guvs: Seat our delegates
Fla. and Mich. guvs: Seat our delegates
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TPM Election Central, Marc Ambinder, BobKrumm.com, Below The Beltway, The Politico and Donklephant
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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The Newshoggers, Riehl World View, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Page, Redstate and PoliGazette
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Camp, Getting Down To Business, Slams Hillary On Tax Returns
Obama Camp, Getting Down To Business, Slams Hillary On Tax Returns
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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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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 …
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Whiskey Fire
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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.
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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Weekly Standard, Open Left, Say Anything, Hot Air, MyDD, Below The Beltway, The Strata-Sphere, TPM Election Central and Donklephant
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 …
Was It Rush? — I've been doing a number of radio interview …
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Hot Air, The Radio Equalizer, Washington Post, Power Line, alicublog, Don Surber and Below The Beltway
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Both Obama And Clinton Hold Edge Over McCain — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) kicks off his general-election campaign trailing both potential Democratic nominees in hypothetical matchups, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Kevin Duchschere / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Franken faces $25,000 workers' comp penalty — DFL Senate candidate Al Franken owes a $25,000 penalty to the New York State Workers' Compensation Board for failing to carry workers' compensation insurance for employees of his namesake corporation from 2002 to 2005, state officials said.
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Minnesota Democrats Exposed
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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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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 …
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.”
Robert Pear / New York Times:
House Approves Bill on Mental Health Parity — WASHINGTON — After more than a decade of struggle, the House on Wednesday passed a bill requiring most group health plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of mental illnesses, comparable to what they provide for physical illnesses.
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