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12:55 AM ET, March 18, 2008

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama plans major race speech tomorrow  —  Barack Obama will give a major speech on “the larger issue of race in this campaign,” he told reporters in Monaca, PA just now.  —  He was pressed there, as he has been at recent appearances, on statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Just 8% Have Favorable Opinion of Pastor Jeremiah Wright  —  Pastor Jeremiah Wright, who has become part of the national political dialogue in recent days, is viewed favorably by 8% of voters nationwide.  A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 58% have an unfavorable view …
The Politico:
Race uproar offers test for Obama  —  Democrats who worry that Barack Obama is untested can put their concerns to rest.  —  The inflammatory rhetoric of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has confronted Obama with the most severe test of his presidential campaign and, quite likely, of his public career.
Ross Douthat:
Falwell and Wright  —  Ezra Klein's a smart guy, so I'm assuming this is a parody of liberal cluelessness rather than the real thing: … What horses**t.  If John McCain were an evangelical Christian and a longstanding member of Jerry Falwell's congregation, and if he had written a memoir describing …
Media Matters for America:   Fox & Friends ' Kilmeade baselessly claimed Newsmax contributor …
Ross Douthat:
Denominations and Double Standards
Discussion: The Corner and Eunomia
NY Daily News:
Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years  —  The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.  —  In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife …
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Obama walks arrogance line  —  WASHINGTON - Arrogance is a common vice in presidential politics.  A person must be more than a little self-important to wake up one day and say, “I belong in the Oval Office.”  —  But there's a line smart politicians don't cross — somewhere between …
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Stamford Advocate:
Lieberman explains support for McCain  —  STAMFORD — U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn, told the editorial board of The Advocate and Greenwich Time he's supporting Republican John McCain for president because he's the most likely to bring about change in Washington.
USA Today:
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Clinton up 5 points on McCain; Obama up 2  —  If the election were held today (and yes, we know it won't be), Democratic contender Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would get 51% of the vote to Republican candidate Sen. John McCain's 46%, the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll estimates.
Discussion: Boston Globe and The Page
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Majority of Democrats prefer Obama  —  (CNN) — A majority of Democrats would like to see Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton win their party's presidential nomination, according to a national poll out Monday.  —  Fifty-two percent of registered Democrats questioned …
Discussion: TPM Election Central
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton Now at 47%, Obama at 45%
Discussion: Don Surber
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Florida gives up on re-vote  —  Florida Democratic chairwoman Karen Thurman sends out an angry email abandoning hope of a re-vote in the state: … This is a real setback for Hillary, who could have gotten both delegates, momentum, and — crucially — a stronger chance to claim a popular vote lead out of the revote.
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Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Florida Dems abandon mail-in vote plan  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Facing strong opposition, Florida Democrats on Monday abandoned plans to hold a do-over presidential primary with a mail-in vote and threw the delegate dispute into the lap of the national party.
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Florida Democrats Concede Defeat on Mail-In Vote
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and TalkLeft
CNN:
No new primary for Florida Democrats
Discussion: TalkLeft, The Reaction and Daily Kos
Frank James / The Swamp:
Florida Dems: No primary do-over
Ace / minx.cc:
WRIGHT: ISRAEL A “DIRTY WORD;” JOKES THAT BLACKS GET ALL QUIET AT MENTION OF ISRAEL  —  Scared to speak, he says.  —  Why?  Would that be anti-semitism that many left-indoctrinated blacks are reluctant to to express out loud?  —  Well, Obama's 20 year political ally and spiritual mentor encourages …
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
Wright on Israel
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Kos / Daily Kos:
The Clinton civil war  —  Al Giordano, on the laughable Clinton-supporters “strike” of this blog: … I would add one more item to the list above — this site has also been hostile to the corrosive consultant class that gave us our timid and weak party until Howard Dean shook it up in 2004.
Gwen Ifill / The Page:
U.S. SENATOR,  —  Washington, D.C.  —  GWEN IFILL: Senator Obama, welcome.  —  SEN. OBAMA: Thank you.  —  MS. IFILL: The president said today we are in challenging times.  You said yourself that we are teetering on the edge of a potential crisis.  When you watch what the Fed …
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Lee Speigel / Political Radar:
Obama: Discussion Over Wright's ‘Stupid Statements’ Have Been a Distraction
Discussion: Spin Cycle and Cliff Schecter
RGE Monitor:
A Generalized Run on the Shadow Financial System  —  Since the onset of the liquidity and credit crunch last summer this column has been arguing that monetary policy would be impotent to address such a crunch because, in part, of the existence of a non-bank “shadow financial system”.
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:   Bush, Praising Fed's Move, Faces Criticism
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?  —  I DIDN'T. … An “anniversary” of a “war” is in many ways the least useful occasion on which to take stock of something like the Anglo-American intervention in Iraq, if only because any such formal observance involves the assumption that a) this is, in fact …
Discussion: alicublog and TigerHawk
New Orleans Times-Picayune:
News from the Louisiana delegation in the nation's capital  —  Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has been mostly mum on the prostitution scandal that forced Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to announce his resignation last week.  But Vitter let down his guard a bit in a conference call with constituents.
Discussion: Wonkette and Political Machine
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CREW:
Senator Vitter: “there is an enormous difference” between Spitzer's case and mine
Discussion: Daily Kos and Sadly, No!
Forbes:
Memo To The Fed: Stop Those Rate Cuts  —  The markets rallied last Tuesday in response to the Fed's growing assistance to holders of mortgage-backed securities.  Yet many onlookers are convinced that an aggressive cut in the federal funds rate at the upcoming March 18 meeting is still necessary to avoid a painful recession.
 
 
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