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11:15 PM ET, April 14, 2008

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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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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.
Nitya / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Keeps ‘Bitter’ Alive
Discussion: Hot Air and Spin Cycle
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Rendell: ‘Bitter’ flap of marginal import
Discussion: Political Machine and Daily Kos
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
Weren't Obama's Comments Supposed to Hurt Him?
Discussion: Power Line
Rasmussen Reports:
56% Disagree with Obama's Comments on Small Town America
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
COMPARING POLLSTERS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Gallup Daily: Obama Support Holding Despite Small-Town “Bitter” Flap
Discussion: Political Radar and Hot Air
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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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
Discussion: Corrente
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
ONLY A REPUBLICAN COULD BE SO STUPID...
Patrick Crowley / N. Ky. Politics:
Davis taking heat for Obama comment
Discussion: Firedoglake and MyDD
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.”
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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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 …
The Trail:
Clinton Met With Cries of ‘No!’ in Latest Bitter Speech
Rick Maze / Army Times:
McCain reveals confusion over Petraeus role  —  Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona may not have been paying the closest of attention last week during hearings on the Bush administration's Iraq policy.  —  Speaking Monday at the annual meeting of the Associated Press …
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?”
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 …
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.”
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Indecision 2008
Dr. Helen:
Should “visual sexual aggression” be against the law?  —  Apparently, there are some politicians and police officers in Maine who think the answer is “yes” (thanks to Peregrine John for pointing this potential law out): … I have a lot of questions about such a law.  What does peering actually mean?
Discussion: Chicago Boyz and TBogg
Scot Paltrow / Portfolio:
The Pentagon's $1 Trillion Problem  —  The defense department has spent billions to fix its antiquated financial systems.  So why does the Pentagon still have no idea where its money goes? … On a winter afternoon in Indianapolis, Jessica Hilligoss, a young Defense Department worker …
Discussion: Main and Central
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
YOU BITTER?  —  I've gotten asked by a lot of readers …
Discussion: Corrente
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