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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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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.
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 …
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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.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Blogger Is Surprised by Uproar Over Obama Story, but Not Bitter — The backstory of how Senator Barack Obama's comments about small-town voters became news is getting almost as much attention in the blogosphere as the comments themselves. — Mayhill Fowler, a blogger for OffTheBus.net …
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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.”
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Pol Watchers:
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.”
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Oh ‘boy’... From NBC's Mark Murray and Mike Viqueira — This is the latest story setting the blogosphere on fire: Kentucky congressman Geoff Davis “compared Obama and his message for change similar to a ‘snake oil salesman.’ He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner [on Saturday] …
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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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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Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Is the White House contemplating climate change legislation? — A pair of news stories on Monday has ignited the rumor mill that the Bush administration is contemplating asking Congress to produce a climate change bill before the end of the year. — Both the Associated Press …
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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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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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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Nick Denton “Pruning” Gawker Media, Ditching Three Sites — Gawker Media boss Nick Denton is “rationalizing” his blog business by spinning off three underperforming sites: Wonkette, Gridskipper and Idolator. The sites will find new homes/owners as follows:
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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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