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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Numbers Holding Strong — Maintains a 10-point lead over Clinton for Democratic nomination — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama, who has come under attack by his presidential rivals for describing small-town voters as “bitter,” seems to be weathering the storm to this point as far as voters are concerned.
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Rasmussen Reports:
56% Disagree with Obama's Comments on Small Town America — Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide disagree with Barack Obama's statement that people in small towns “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
WSJ.com:
Is Clinton's Pennsylvania Lead Really 20 Points? — A new survey showing Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama by 20 percentage points in Pennsylvania comes from a polling firm with a shaky track record this election season. — The poll, which topped the Drudge Report on Monday afternoon …
Don Frederick / Top of the Ticket:
New poll shows Barack Obama tanking in Pennsylvania — The first fresh poll results from Pennsylvania are in since Barack Obama's “bitter” comments about people in small towns exploded as a news story, and the findings could hardly be worse for the Democratic presidential contender.
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Republicans talk about Iraq, Obama at N. Ky. dinner — UPDATE 6 P.M. 4/14/08: CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO OF REMARKS BY U.S. REP. GEOFF DAVIS — Republican U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning laid out their case for Republicans keeping control of the White House in the 2008 election during …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Kentucky Rep. 'That boy's finger does not need to be on the button' — Um: … An aide to Davis, Jeremy Hughes, declined to comment on the remark, and didn't dispute the accuracy of the quote.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HMMMM — Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) on Obama: “I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to be on the button. He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
Mike Allen / The Politico:
‘Annie Oakley’ changes her tune — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who has cast herself in the past few days as a champion of gun owners, had a very different message when she spoke eight years ago to the Newspaper Association of America. — “CLINTON TAKES AIM AT GUNS,” …
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The Trail:
Clinton Met With Cries of ‘No!’ in Latest Bitter Speech … By Perry Bacon Jr. — PITTSBURGH — Criticizing Barack Obama for the fourth straight day over comments he made about Americans who live in small towns, Hillary Clinton finally encountered some resistance in person.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Blogger Is Surprised by Uproar Over Obama Story, but Not Bitter
Blogger Is Surprised by Uproar Over Obama Story, but Not Bitter
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Matt / Think Progress:
Lieberman: It's ‘a good question’ to ask if Obama is ‘a Marxist.’ — In his New York Times column today, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol claimed that Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) now-infamous “bitter” remarks sound like Karl Marx's “famous statement about religion.”
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William Kristol / New York Times:
The Mask Slips — I haven't read much Karl Marx since …
The Mask Slips — I haven't read much Karl Marx since …
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Mickey Kaus / Slate:
What's the Matter With Obama?
What's the Matter With Obama?
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Natasha Korecki / Eye on Rezko:
Obama bomb dropped — When Tony Rezko held a reception at his home for Iraqi-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi on April 3, 2004, White House hopeful Barack Obama and his wife were also there, Stuart Levine testified just now at Rezko's trial. — Auchi is the man who provided Rezko a $3.5 million loan …
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Drudge Report:
MCCAIN: ‘HILLARY CAN STILL PULL IT OFF’; SENATOR PREFERS CLINTON CONTEST — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has confided to his inner circle that Hillary Clinton may yet be the Democratic nominee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, a development the senator from Arizona would personally welcome!
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Aaron Bruns / FOX Embeds:
AP Asks Democratic Frontrunner About “Obama bin Laden” — At the close of Q and A at an Associated Press luncheon in Washington, DC, AP chairman Dean SIngleton skipped over a question on what's becoming known as “bitter-gate” in favor of asking Illinois Senator Barack Obama what he surely thought …
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
AP Chairman Refers to “Obama bin Laden” — In Posing Question to Barack Obama
AP Chairman Refers to “Obama bin Laden” — In Posing Question to Barack Obama
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Nitya / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Keeps ‘Bitter’ Alive — ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Former president Bill Clinton's campaign rally this morning at the junior high gym in Corydon, Indiana was a wealth of Hillary Clinton surrogates, among them many who had their own thoughts about Sen. Barack Obama's recent comments about small town voters.
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Ali / Think Progress:
McCain Takes Bold Stance On Torture: ‘We Cannot Ever Torture Any American’ — Today, during the question-and-answer period of Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) address to the Associated Press, a journalist asked McCain about torturing terrorism detainees, saying “Don't we stand for something better?”
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
CNN's Candy Crowley adopts McCain's position on Public Financing: Omits McCain's FEC violations — McCain's Media back in action. Did Crowley take a John McCain press release and develop this segment based on their talking points? This clip is from last Friday.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
YOU BITTER? — I've gotten asked by a lot of readers what I make of this whole “bitter” controversy. So a few thoughts. — In cases such as this I think it is always crucial to distinguish in our own minds between what we find offensive and what we've been conditioned to believe that others will find offensive.
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Political Machine
Rebecca Traister / Salon:
Hey, Obama boys: Back off already! — Dana Lossia, a 29-year-old labor lawyer in Brooklyn, describes herself as a “pretty big Obama supporter. ” She worked for a year at Michelle Obama's Public Allies Chicago, where she met Barack a few times. She called him “the most inspiring, amazing person, a different kind of politician.”
Marc Lebuis / Friday Night Blues:
Complaint filed at the Canadian Human Rights Commission against a Montreal imam — Today, I filed a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) for “hate propaganda” against Montreal salafi imam Hammaad Abu Sulaiman Al-Dameus Hayiti who officiates at the Association Musulmane de Montréal Est mosque.
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