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Gallup:
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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Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
New Backing for Obama As Party Seeks Unity — WASHINGTON — Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama's side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up. — Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is expected …
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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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.
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.
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Taylor Marsh
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
CLINTON: ALL THE WAY TO DENVER
CLINTON: ALL THE WAY TO DENVER
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Matthew Yglesias, Scripting News, Brendan Nyhan, The Mahablog, The Carpetbagger Report and CNN
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Cordesman on what's really going on in Basra — Excellent work as usual from a guy who's never shied from telling either side what it doesn't want to hear. I cringe every time I write about Basra since it's impossible anymore to tell who's allied with whom and why: Maliki, Sadr, the JAM …
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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 …
Erica Goode / New York Times:
Sadr Offers Deal for Truce as Fighting Persists in Iraq
Sadr Offers Deal for Truce as Fighting Persists in Iraq
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Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Reuters, Time, Matthew Yglesias, Gorilla's Guides and Associated Press
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Remind me again — who's losing in Basra?
Remind me again — who's losing in Basra?
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Redstate, Los Angeles Times, Roads to Iraq, Middle Earth Journal, rubber hose, Liberty Street, PoliGazette and NewsBusters.org
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Mahdi Army taking significant casualties in Baghdad, South
Mahdi Army taking significant casualties in Baghdad, South
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McClatchy Washington Bureau, The Strata-Sphere, American Power, Wake up America, Big Lizards and Flopping Aces
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Breaking - Sadr Plays “Good Guy” Card [Updated]
Breaking - Sadr Plays “Good Guy” Card [Updated]
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Voice of America, Daily Kos, Neptunus Lex, Reuters, The Left Coaster, kuna.net.kw and Balloon Juice
Think Progress:
Bush booed loudly while throwing out first pitch in Nationals home opener. — President Bush delivered the first pitch tonight at the new Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. to a resounding chorus of boos. After being announced, Bush was showered by boos as he strode to the mound.
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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Cincinnati.com:
Maupin's remains found in Iraq — digg us! del.icio.us! — Sgt. Matt Maupin is dead, the parents of the missing Clermont County soldier said today. — Maupin's remain were found in Iraq, nearly four years after he was captured by insurgents, his parents said.
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Michelle Malkin:
Staff Sgt. Maupin's remains found in Iraq — Keep the Maupin family in your thoughts and prayers tonight: … The Maupin family website is here. — They adopted a saying: … R.I.P. — Let's hope our troops find the animals who murdered Maupin and deliver justice.
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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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Spin Cycle, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Wake up America, Hot Air, Truthdig, AMERICAblog, D-Day, Patterico's Pontifications, Don Surber, The Reaction, Pat Dollard, TPMCafe, Sweetness & Light, The Moderate Voice, The Other McCain, Balloon Juice, Donklephant, Prairie Weather and JammieWearingFool
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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
Public Death, Private Life — What should a newspaper print about a person's most private life in a story after his death? — The Post ran a story March 22 about the burial at Arlington National Cemetery of Army Maj. Alan G. Rogers, a decorated war hero killed in an explosion in Baghdad.
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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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 …