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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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The Mask Slips — I haven't read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Still, it didn't take me long this weekend to find my copy of “The Marx-Engels Reader,” edited by Robert C. Tucker — a book that was assigned …
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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.”
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Goes on Offense After Fumble — GRANTHAM, Pa. — Sen. Barack Obama sharply mocked his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sunday night as he found himself defending his candidacy to white working-class voters for the second time in a month. — Sen. Obama accused Sen. Clinton …
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USA Today:
No ‘bitter’ aftertaste? How Obama gaffe plays — JACOBUS, Pa. — Phil Little seems like just the sort of Pennsylvanian voter who might have been offended by Sen. Barack Obama's comments that small-town residents “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion.”
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Republicans talk about Iraq, Obama at N. Ky. dinner — 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 Northern Kentucky's 4th Congressional District Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday night.
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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.”
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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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Michael Link / Democratic National Committee:
Democratic Party Filing Suit with District Court — For weeks now, John McCain has broken campaign finance law by going over the spending limits that he agreed to when he opted into public financing in order to secure a loan and get his name on the ballot in several states.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly, Fox News's Fast-Rising Anchor — NEW YORK — It's just after 10:30 Monday morning on “America's Newsroom,” and Megyn Kelly has bounced from riots in Paris to storms in the Midwest, from a truck-and-train collision to a strange interview about the 1969 Manson family murders with the sister of slain actress Sharon Tate.
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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CNN:
CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL — Democratic Candidates Compassion Forum — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — BROWN: Good evening, everybody, to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Welcome to Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
CLINTON KEEPS SPOTLIGHT ON OBAMA — From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones — PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Hillary Clinton spent a fourth day hitting Obama for comments about small town America that she characterized as elitist, out of touch and problematic for the Democratic Party, but this time some in the crowd …
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Melinda Henneberger / Slate:For Better or for Worse — WHY THE CLINTONS WILL STAY MARRIED, WIN OR LOSE.
Ken Layne / Wonkette:
Yes We Can: Wonkette Goes Solo — So, anything happening in the media news today? Wait, WHAT? Yes it's true: Wonkette is bravely leaving the Gawker Media nest, along with Gawker's music and travel sites. Why on Earth is a beloved publication such as Wonkette taking this plunge …
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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.
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 …
George F. Will / Newsweek:
A Libertarian Surge? — Bob Barr will be dry-eyed if his candidacy is to John McCain what Ralph Nader's was to Al Gore in 2000. — Compact and Feisty Bob Barr, 59, probably will seek and get the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, which convenes in Denver on Memorial Day weekend.
TheInDecider / Indecision 2008:
Michelle Obama to Appear on The Colbert Report — After you're done writing off your last pointed tip bolo knife purchase (whoever said being a Laotian hitman would come back to bite you at tax time?) be sure to catch Michelle Obama's tax night (April 15) appearance on The Colbert Report …
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Obama's Trade Pandering — Obama's claim that bitter Pennsylvanians cling to “anti-trade sentiment” out of frustration over lost jobs made his own anti-trade rhetoric on the campaign trail look like pandering, so at today's speech before the Alliance for American Manufacturing, he tried to stake out some middle ground:
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