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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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Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Campaign Touts Value of Big-State Victories
Clinton Campaign Touts Value of Big-State Victories
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
2 McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain never fails to call himself a conservative Republican as he campaigns as his party's presumptive presidential nominee. He often adds that he was a “foot soldier” in the Reagan revolution and that he believes …
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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 …
Fester / The Newshoggers:
Clinton, odds and 2012 — My good buddy Kyle at Comments from Left Field is raising and smashing a line of argument about Hillary Clinton's motives for continuing in the Democratic primary despite having a minimal chance of actually achieiving her goals. And this line of speculation …
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Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Why Hillary Must Come Clean About Bill — I'LL BE ON MID STREAM RADIO FROM 1-1:30 P.M. EDT TODAY DISCUSSING THIS POST. DETAILS HERE. — Few things are certain in this season of political upheaval on such a seismic scale, but here is one that is: Should Hillary Clinton win the nomination …
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Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Clinton calls for panel on housing woes — PHILADELPHIA - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton called on President Bush on Monday to appoint “an emergency working group on foreclosures” to recommend new ways to confront the nation's housing finance troubles. — The New York senator said the panel …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Taming the Beast — We're now in the midst of an epic financial crisis …
Taming the Beast — We're now in the midst of an epic financial crisis …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
JPMorgan in Negotiations to Raise Bear Stearns Bid — JPMorgan Chase was in talks on Sunday night for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns, the beleaguered investment bank, in an effort to pacify angry Bear shareholders, according to people involved in the negotiations.
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William Kristol / New York Times:
Let's Not, and Say We Did — I shuddered only once while watching Barack Obama's speech last Tuesday. — It wasn't when he posed the rhetorical questions: “Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church?”
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Bruce Bartlett / New York Times:
Stop Those Checks — WITH unusual speed and cooperation last month, George W. Bush and Democrats in Congress agreed to a tax rebate set to be paid out beginning in May. Families will get checks for $300 to $1200 or more, and it is assumed that they will all rush out to spend this money immediately …
Nico Pitney / The Huffington Post:
A Mosaic: 4,000 Americans Dead — In remembrance of the 4,000 brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us — and the two men who would continue this great tragedy, despite the cost to our soldiers, our military, and our nation. — Click here to see the... Read Post | Comments
Brandon Friedman / VetVoice:
25 Killed in Two Weeks; More Significant Number than 4,000 — American forces have just experienced the most violent two-week period in Iraq since September 2007. Unfortunately, I'm afraid this fact will be lost in the media coverage over the number 4,000 during the next several days.
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Associated Press:
U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 4,000
U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 4,000
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Democrats' Obama Dilemma — Barack Obama's speech last week, hastily prepared to extinguish the firestorm over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, won critical praise for style and substance but failed politically. By elevating the question of race in America, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate …
Associated Press:
‘Signing of Yemeni proposal a mixup’ — Top aides to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday distanced themselves from a Yemeni plan outlining a path to reconciliation with Hamas movement, and one said an Abbas envoy only signed the document because of a mixup.
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Kenneth Lovett / New York Post:
PATERSON'S INN TROUBLE — Despite owning a house less than 20 minutes from the state Capitol, Gov. Paterson, as lieutenant governor, routinely used taxpayer money to stay at nearby hotels, The Post has learned. — Credit-card records obtained from the state Comptroller's Office covering …
Corey Williams / Associated Press:
Detroit Mayor Charged With Perjury — DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.
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Walter Shapiro / Salon:
The Democrats' anti-momentum — Forget buyer's remorse — the real malady likely to be triggered by the never-ending Democratic presidential race is buyer's confusion. It has already been seven weeks since a majority of Democrats cast their votes in the Woozy Tuesday Feb. 5 primaries …
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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