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Elisa Hahn / KING-TV:
Local girl makes unexpected appearance in Hillary ad — BONNEY LAKE, Wash. - The political ad that sparked nationwide controversy turns out to have a surprising local connection. — One of the actors in the Hillary Clinton ad was shocked to see herself, especially because she's a fierce supporter of Barack Obama.
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Wyoming Democratic Caucus: Huge Turnout, Results — Update: Last five caucus results now coming in. Hillary wins Weston County. Obama won Big Horn. — Update: I think I've found the answer as to why the race hasn't been called by CNN, thanks to McJoan and Pocket Nines at Daily Kos.
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PocketNines / Daily Kos:
Wyoming Watch: How to Scorekeep the Wyoming Caucuses [UPDATING] — It's Saturday, March 8, and the significant state of Wyoming - one of 50 states that matter - is going to the polls. — Consider this both a “how to scorekeep” and live thread, for those in attendance who have returned.
Dotcomabc / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Calls A Hillary/Obama Ticket An ‘Almost Unstoppable Force’ — ABC's Sarah Amos reports: While Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are both taking the day off from campaigning, Hillary's number one surrogate and husband, Bill Clinton, is spending the day in Mississippi …
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Tony Dokoupil / Newsweek:
The Stalemate Continues — Hillary Clinton has battled …
The Stalemate Continues — Hillary Clinton has battled …
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TPM Election Central, Don Surber, The Carpetbagger Report, Pajamas Media and Washington Wire
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Bush Uses Veto on C.I.A. Tactics to Affirm Legacy — WASHINGTON — President Bush on Saturday further cemented his legacy of fighting for strong executive powers, using his veto to shut down a Congressional effort to limit the Central Intelligence Agency's latitude to subject terrorism suspects to harsh interrogation techniques.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Bush Announces Veto of Waterboarding Ban
Bush Announces Veto of Waterboarding Ban
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Kathleen Gray / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan do-over election hits a new wall — Obama rejects Granholm idea, state party says — The obstacles to a do-over election to pick Michigan's delegates to the Democratic National Convention seemed to grow Friday, after Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign officials told …
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Jerome Armstrong / MyDD:
Obama's strategy to deny MI & FL — Obama is sending out signals that they will reject Florida and Michigan having a new election, while at same time rejecting the notion that either MI or FL should have their votes counted toward the Democratic nomination.
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Mehlman, Rove boost McCain campaign — John McCain is getting much more than President Bush's endorsement and fundraising help for his campaign. He's getting Bush's staff. — It's no secret that Steve Schmidt, Bush's attack dog in the 2004 election, and Mark McKinnon …
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
The O'Reilly Factor: Karl Rove Points To McCain's Adopted Daughter As Example Of McCain's Worthiness — It is no longer possible to have your irony meter redline when Karl Rove appears on TV. He is so beyond the pale, so completely entrenched in his alternative reality that the only thing left …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press — (updated below - Update II) — The most interesting part of the controversy over Obama advisor Samantha Power's referring to Hillary Clinton as a “monster” — one might say the only interesting part …
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The Jawa Report, the talking dog, Shakesville, American Power, Chicago Sun Times and The Impolitic
Michael J. Totten / Commentary:
Hillary Isn't the Monster — I was at first relieved to learn that Senator Barack Obama had chosen Samantha Power as a foreign policy advisor. Her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide is hardly wishy-washy or leftist, and I concur with Max Boot that it could have been written by a neoconservative.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Rep. Steve King smears Obama's name says: the al-Qaida, and the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 — And you thought it would only be the walkie-talkie type Bill Cunningham's of the Republican Party …
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Russ Mitchell / Spencer Daily Reporter:
King announced bid for fourth term
King announced bid for fourth term
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New York Times:
Obama in Senate: Star Power, Minor Role — Senator Barack Obama stood before Washington's elite at the spring dinner of the storied Gridiron Club. In self-parody, he ticked off his accomplishments, little more than a year after arriving in town. — “I've been very blessed,” Mr. Obama told the crowd assembled in March 2006.
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Pledged Delegates The Will Of The People? Not Hardly — So we are celebrating “democracy” in Wyoming today. The “will of the people?” Not hardly. Another travesty of the Democratic Party. — Do you know that if 8,000 voters come out in Wyoming today to select their 13 delegates …
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Torn between 2 white liberal guilts — Well, we will have Hillary Clinton to kick around some more, at least for another few weeks. The Mummy (as my radio pal Hugh Hewitt calls her) kicked open the sarcophagus door and, despite the rotting bandages dating back to Iowa, began staggering around, terrorizing folks all over again.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Seeing an End to the Good Times (Such as They Were) — If history is a reliable guide, the recession of 2008 is now unavoidable. — The dismal jobs report released Friday showed overall employment to be lower than it was three months ago. Every time such a slump has occurred since the early 1970s …
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White House, Econbrowser, Angry Bear, American Power, Corrente, Matthew Yglesias, The Mahatma X Files and Calculated Risk