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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
McCain erases Obama lead — WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain has erased Sen. Barack Obama's 10-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup, leaving him essentially tied with both Democratic candidates in an Associated Press-Ipsos national poll released Thursday.
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Michael Duffy / Time:
TIME Poll: Clinton 6 Points Up in Pennsylvania — Backed by more than half of all white female Democrats, Hillary Clinton holds a six point lead over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, a new statewide poll by TIME reveals.
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Polls: Clinton's lead down to 4 points in Pennsylvania
Polls: Clinton's lead down to 4 points in Pennsylvania
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Joe Klein / Time:
Petraeus Meets His Match — Senator Joseph Lieberman has become something of an agent provocateur in the semiannual Petraeus-Crocker hearings staged by the U.S. Senate. This semester he chose to open his remarks by chastising unnamed colleagues for having a “hear no progress …
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Gateway Pundit:
SHOCKING— New Obama Audio Posted Online! — This is just amazing. — If Obama really wanted to have a talk about race he could start by explaining his hateful words on this audio. — (9 minutes 53 seconds) — Bob McCarty also finds it shocking. — The Elector of Saxony said it best in an earlier post:
Rasmussen Reports:
29% Favor National Health Insurance Overseen by Federal Government — Twenty-nine percent (29%) of American adults favor a national health insurance program overseen by the Federal Government. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 39% oppose such a government-led initiative while 31% are not sure.
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New York Post:
IRAN'S BUSTED IRAQ BID — BASRA ‘RISING’ WAS TEHRAN'S OP — A GAMBLE that proved too costly. — That's how analysts in Tehran describe events last month in Basra. Iran's state-run media have de facto confirmed that this was no spontaneous “uprising.”
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Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Retells Hillary's 1996 Bosnia Story — ABC News' Sarah Amos and Eloise Harper Report: After a trip to Puerto Rico and two days entirely off the campaign trail, former President Bill Clinton eagerly discussed myriad topics with the crowd that awaited him in Boonville, Ind. …
The Huffington Post:
Randi Rhodes Quits Air America Rather Than Apologize For Hillary Clinton “F*cking Whore” Remark; “There's Relief And Joy” At The Station — Update: The Huffington Post has learned that Randi Rhodes quit Air America after being asked by the network to apologize for her inflammatory remarks against Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro.
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CNN:
Obama: I'm not ‘getting fresh or anything’ — (CNN) - Barack Obama appeared to have a bit of an awkward moment on the campaign trail in South Bend, Indiana. — From the pool report: — “[Obama] posed for report pictures with the staff when he apparently felt his phone start to vibrate …
myLifetime.com:
As Election Race Shifts, so do Women's Opinions of the Candidates, With Perception of Hillary Clinton Changing the Most — New Lifetime Networks' Every Woman Counts poll takes women's political pulse. — Sign In or Register to Assign a Topic — New York — As part of its Every Woman Counts campaign …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: Elie Weisel is a piker — Someone at the Barack Obama campaign had better start watching the hyperbole meter when Obama gets off script. When a questioner at a Levittown event asked Obama about his church's fascination with Louis Farrakhan, Obama offered a very strange defense.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Carter and Hamas — It's an opportunity for Obama to draw a line, and he takes it:
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Is that really a naked woman in Dick Cheney's sunglasses? — WASHINGTON — He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President Dick Cheney apparently doesn't fly fish with naked women. — Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been atwitter over a photograph on the White House Web site of Cheney …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Have Republicans given up on FISA and telecom amnesty? — I'm still traveling and so have only a little bit of time to comment, but The Hill is reporting that the GOP is de-prioritizing their efforts to enact the Rockefeller/Cheney FISA bill: … The article goes on to quote GOP operatives …
Jonathan Stein / MoJoBlog:
McCain Gets the Boot From Project Vote Smart — Project Vote Smart, the nonpartisan voter-education nonprofit, confirms today that it has kicked John McCain off its board. Mother Jones reported on Monday that PVS was prepared to make the move due to McCain's nine-month refusal to fill out its Political Courage Test.
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Glenn Beck / CNN:
America needs a 12-step program — Editor's note: “Glenn Beck” is on Headline News nightly at 7 and 9 ET. — NEW YORK (CNN) — My name is Glenn Beck, and I am a recovering alcoholic. — It took me a lot of years and a lot of pain to be able to say those words and really believe them.