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Gallup Daily: Obama Now at 52% to Clinton's 42% — McCain still has slight advantage over both Democratic opponents — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama has extended his lead over Hillary Clinton among Democrats nationally to 52% to 42%, the third consecutive Gallup Poll Daily tracking report …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BRAZILE EXPLAINS CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE — Donna Brazile was on This Week this morning and explained how the credentials committee works. If she's right, and I'm sure Brazile knows this stuff like the back of her hand, it's even worse for Clinton than I thought.
Newsweek:
How to Win in a Knife Fight — The Democratic race could well come down to the first contested convention in years. Lessons on how to prevail. — After the last Democratic primary is held in early June, neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama will have enough votes from delegates elected …
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Obama To Blame If The Dem Contest Goes To The Convention — Obama supporter Josh Marshall: … (Emphasis supplied.) What did Clinton actually say? … (Emphasis mine.) Josh's reaction to this? … (Emphasis supplied.) Excuse me? Not even Barack Obama says MI and FL is resolved.
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills — Hillary Rodham Clinton's cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles.
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Richard M. Scaife / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Hillary, reassessed — TRIBUNE-REVIEW — Hillary Clinton walked into a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review conference room last Tuesday to meet with some of the newspaper's editors and reporters and declared, “It was so counterintuitive, I just thought it would be fun to do.” — The room erupted in laughter.
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Washington Post:Don't Stop Campaigning — THE GROWING chorus among some Democrats …
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Steve Clemons / The Huffington Post:The World is Watching and Wants More: Clinton-Obama Race Should Go All the Way
MSNBC:
Iraq's al-Sadr orders fighters to stop — Iraq leader calls move ‘step in the right direction’ after hundreds killed — Shortly before Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to desist from attacking Iraqi forces, his militia stormed this TV facility in Basra on Sunday, forcing Iraqi troops to flee.
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Aqeel Hussein / Telegraph:
Iraqi army forces defect to Moqtada al-Sadr — With gunfire and explosions echoing round him, Lt Hamid Abbas of the Iraqi Army was letting no car pass unchallenged at his makeshift roadblock on the outskirts of a Basra slum. — His closest scrutiny, however, was reserved …
New York Times:In This Shiite Battle, a Marked Shift From the Past
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Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:Mahdi Army taking significant casualties in Baghdad, South
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Erica Goode / New York Times:Sadr Offers Deal for Truce as Fighting Persists in Iraq
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Sholnn Freeman / Washington Post:Shiite Cleric Sadr Offers Conditions for Cease-Fire
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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Say It Ain't So, Joe — It's not news that Sen. Joe Lieberman, the onetime Democratic VP candidate, is backing John McCain for President. Nor is it news that Lieberman takes a different view of the Iraq War than most Democrats. But what he said this morning on ABC's “This Week” is certainly news.
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65 — Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people's rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
No, John McCain Can't Just Quit — Susan Milligan, writing in the Boston Globe, takes an all-too-rare foray into John McCain's campaign finance hypocrisy. But this bit, straight out of the McCain's disinformation machine, simply isn't true: … McCain took the money all right …
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Reuters:
Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican — VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. — Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Rove: The horns are retractable — Karl Rove got interrupted during an appearance at George Washington University on Friday by demonstrators calling for his prosecution as a war criminal. Rove, who had nothing to do with war planning or execution — he ran the political side of the White House …
Michael Dobbs / Washington Post:
Obama Overstates Kennedys' Role in Helping His Father — Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.
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Al Norman / The Huffington Post:
Wal-Mart Cancels 45 Superstore Projects — “Cannibalization Factor” Eating The Company's Future — According to a list released this week, Wal-Mart Stores has abandoned a record-shattering 45 proposed projects over the past 10 months—often leaving local officials dejected and confused.
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Second Texas Democratic caucuses bring more chaos — AUSTIN — Traffic jams, long lines, crowds, confusion and chaos marked Texas Democratic regional conventions Saturday as an unprecedented number of political activists turned out to help elect presidential nominating delegates for Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
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