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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Clinton ‘Misspoke’ About Bosnia Trip, Campaign Says — The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady. — She has been using the episode as an example of her foreign policy bona fides.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Clinton Backer Points to Electoral College Votes as New Measure — Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another metric Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM — I don't know where it was. It think it may have been a reader blog at TPMCafe. Wherever it was it was a post that ran down something like ten different ways of counting the popular vote, all to the end of showing that Barack's popular vote lead wasn't nearly so great and may not exist at all.
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Spencer Ackerman / American Prospect:
The Obama Doctrine — Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters buy it? — When Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama met in California for the Jan. 31 debate …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama and Clinton Back to a Tie — McCain continues to hold slight edge in preferences for the fall — PRINCETON, NJ — The Democratic nomination battle — having undergone significant shifts last week during the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy — is now back to a virtual …
Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Carville Stands By ‘Judas’ Remark — BLUE BELL, Pa. - James Carville, a political adviser to the Clintons, said this afternoon that he stood by his comment last Friday - Good Friday, to Christians - comparing Gov. Bill Richardson to Judas, even though a Clinton campaign aide said today that …
Ryan Grim / The Crypt's Blogs:
“Tell me how this ends” — It's a month of grim milestones in Iraq, as the war enters its sixth year and the number of U.S> soldiers killed climbs above 4,000. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) …
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Cheney on Iraq: 'It's Important to Win' — Vice President Discusses Grim Milestone of 4,000 U.S. Dead in Five-Year Iraq War — In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked what effect the grim milestone of at least 4,000 U.S. deaths in the five-year Iraq war might have on the nation.
Washington Post:
Both Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles — After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the “President's Room,” just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy. — As the half-dozen senators — including John McCain …
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Corey Williams / Associated Press:
Detroit mayor charged with perjury — DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses Monday — and got a stern lecture about the importance of telling the truth — after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his chief aide.
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Blind Faith — THE STATEMENTS OF CLERGYMEN LIKE JEREMIAH WRIGHT AREN'T CONTROVERSIAL AND INCENDIARY; THEY'RE WICKED AND STUPID. — It's been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama that he would become answerable for his revolting choice of a family priest.
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Key Obama Iowa Adviser Invokes 'Monica's Blue Dress' When Assailing Bill Clinton's ‘Patriotism’ Comments — Gordon Fischer, the former director of the Iowa Democratic Party and a senior adviser for Sen. Barack Obama's efforts in the Hawkeye State, is still very much involved …
M Peretz / The New Republic:
Thoughts on Wright — I've just read Dayo Olopade's fascinating piece, “Far Wright,” on Barack Obama's far-left preacher, Jeremiah Wright. It's an insightful piece, and it evoked memories of the two black churches I sometimes attended when I lived in Georgetown. But I'm no expert and Dayo is.
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The Politico:
GOP state parties are in dire straits — At a time when the GOP presidential nominee will need more assistance than ever, a number of state Republican parties are struggling through troubled times, suffering from internal strife, poor fundraising, onerous debt, scandal or voting trends …
Anatol Lieven / Financial Times:
Why we should fear a McCain presidency — It may seem incredible to say this, given past experience, but a few years from now Europe and the world could be looking back at the Bush administration with nostalgia. This possibility will arise if the US elects Senator John McCain as president in November.
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CNN:
Clinton stresses party unity in Pennsylvania — BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania (CNN) - Over the weekend, Barack Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe accused Hillary Clinton of having a “character gap.” Clinton spokesman Phil Singer returned fire, saying today that Obama's campaign is perpetrating an …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Secret Obama Supporter — Just engaging the debate in the thread below, if people want to imagine that I don't really care. I've long said that if I ever felt like a candidate supporter I'd say so, but I just don't. I don't wake up in the morning hoping for bad news for the Clinton campaign …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard Blog:
Still More Journalistic Sanity on Iraq and al Qaeda — In the middle of a long and fascinating piece on his regrets about the Iraq War, former New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg, now with the Atlantic Monthly, discusses the new Institute for Defense Analyses report on Iraq and Terrorism.
Satyam / Think Progress:
O'Hanlon: Surge architects are the ‘Vince Lombardis’ of Iraq war. — In an event at the American Enterprise Institute today, Brookings analyst Michael O'Hanlon — sitting next to hawks Fred Kagan and Ken Pollack — praised the Iraq surge, saying the surge architects would make former Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi “proud”:
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