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2:05 PM ET, March 26, 2008

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Frank Newport / Gallup:

If McCain vs. Obama, 28% of Clinton Backers Go for McCain — If McCain vs. Clinton, 19% of Obama backers go for McCain — PRINCETON, NJ — A sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination.

The Politico:

Southern Dem warns party to avert disaster — Democrats are increasingly nervous about their party's protracted nomination fight, and some prominent figures are publicly warning that the party needs to act fast to avoid disaster. — Chief among these voices is Phil Bredesen …

Discussion: TownHall Blog, Trailhead, Philly.com, The Moderate Voice, MSNBC, TPM Election Central, Pennsyltucky Politics and Political Punch

Rasmussen Reports:

22% of Democrats Want Clinton to Drop Out; 22% Say Obama Should Withdraw — Twenty-two percent (22%) of Democratic voters nationwide say that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. However, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Outside The Beltway, Facing South, MyDD, Fox News, Hot Air, Prairie Weather, Gateway Pundit, Forum: News/Activism, Donklephant, Public Policy Polling and Daily Kos

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Hillary or Nobody? — While the cool cat's away, the Hillary mice will play. — As Barack Obama was floating in the pool with his daughters the last few days in St. Thomas, some Clinton disciples were floating the idea of St. Hillary as his vice president.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, MSNBC, NewsBusters.org, The Strata-Sphere and Don Surber

James Fallows:

This is disgusting (Clintons, McPeak, American Spectator) — Watching from 12 time zones away, I've tried to stay out of campaign blow-by-blow. — But if, as I assume is true based on Marc Ambinder's report, the Hillary Clinton campaign is circulating a hit job from the American Spectator, this is simply disgusting.

Discussion: MoJoBlog, The Other McCain, Marc Ambinder, David Corn, The Smirking Chimp, Booman Tribune, Haaretz and Balloon Juice

Ezra Klein / American Prospect: IT'S NOT ABOUT POINTS. — James Fallows is a bit agog …

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
YA THINK? — As you know, earlier today Hillary Clinton tried …

Discussion: The Corner, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Spin Cycle, Shakesville, TPM Election Central, Comments from Left Field, Seeing the Forest, The Jed Report, The Carpetbagger Report, Unfogged, AMERICAblog, Prometheus 6, marbury, USA Today, The Other McCain, The RBC and The Reaction

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Time to Lose McPeak — I tell pretty much anyone who asks …

Discussion: Middle Earth Journal, American Spectator and NO QUARTER

Yitzhak Benhorin / Ynetnews:
Obama advisor: US Jews hinder peace

Discussion: Hot Air, Classical Values, Vodkapundit, Israel Matzav, Power Line, Roger L. Simon and PoliGazette

Brianinmo / BLOGS FOR JOHN McCAIN:

McCain Asks When Hillary Clinton Will Apologize to Gen. Petraeus - Video — Here is Sen. John McCain on March 24, 2008 asking when Sen. Hillary Clinton will apologize to Gen. David Petraeus for her remarks last year ridiculing the idea that “The Surge” strategy in Iraq was working.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Sister Toldjah, The Impolitic, Comments from Left Field, Hot Air, Macsmind, Stop The ACLU and Forum: News/Activism

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

What can and cannot be spoken on television — I'm going to re-post the segment I posted yesterday, from Charlie Rose's fifth anniversary Iraq show, because I want to encourage as many people as possible to watch it. If I could recommend one article or segment for Americans to read …

New York Times:
Iraqi Crackdown on Shiite Forces Sets Off Fighting

Discussion: Danger Room, Informed Comment, The Moderate Voice, Patterico's Pontifications, Confederate Yankee, TPMMuckraker, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Balloon Juice, Prairie Weather, American Power, Hot Air and Agence France Presse

Mark Halperin / Time:

Exclusive: Clinton Vows to Push On — Hillary Clinton is under a lot of pressure these days, but in a Tuesday interview she seemed cheery, confident and unapologetic as she talked about her determination to fight on in the Presidential race. Speaking by phone from Pennsylvania …

Discussion: Trailhead, Dick Polman's American Debate, Jules Crittenden, TPM Election Central and The Page

Neal Gabler / New York Times:

The Maverick and the Media — Amagansett, N.Y. — IT is certainly no secret that Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is a darling of the news media. Reporters routinely attach “maverick,” “straight talker” and “patriot” to him like Homeric epithets.

Discussion: New York Times, PressThink, TownHall Blog, Swampland, Achenblog, No More Mister Nice Blog, Shakesville and The Page

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Pastor Of Clinton's Former Church: Don't Use Wright To Polarize — On Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton re-stoked the flames of the controversy surrounding Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, saying she would have long ago distanced herself from Rev. Jeremiah Wright if she had attended his church.

Discussion: TalkLeft

The Smoking Gun:

Big Phat Liar — How a federal inmate duped the Los Angeles Times, fabricated FBI reports, and linked Sean “Diddy” Combs to 1994 ambush of Tupac Shakur — Last week's bombshell Los Angeles Times report claiming that the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Gawker and LA Observed

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

It Takes A Pillage — Jeremiah Wright is now the moral equivalent of David Duke? The latest Clintonite ratchets up the Wright issue still further. However dim a view you take of some of Wright's rhetorical excesses, and I'm not defending them, to compare a man whose church has such a long history …

Discussion: protein wisdom and Prairie Weather

Ben / Think Progress:

O'Reilly: Media Matters, Huff Post, Daily Kos ‘are fascists’ and anti-American — Last night on his Fox News program, Bill O'Reilly said that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) “doesn't have anything to do” with progressive blogs because he can't “control the kind of filth” they produce.

Gateway Pundit:

Oops!... She Did It Again- Michelle Obama Bashes Ignorant America! (Video) — “It's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance...That's AMERICA” … Oops!... She did it again! — Michelle Obama bashes America:

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Hot Air, Redstate and JammieWearingFool

Megan McArdle:

Anger management — Once more into the breach, and then I will go back to more pleasant topics, like how we know how many people have died in Iraq (answer: we don't. But that's a long story.) — Obviously, I have a temper. I am slow to anger, but once roused, I as well as anyone …

Discussion: Outside The Beltway