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Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton losing traction over Obama in Pennsylvania, Indiana — Her formerly double-digit lead is now just a five-point margin in Pennsylvania, survey finds. The reduced margin makes a win for her there less significant. She trails Obama among Hoosiers. — WASHINGTON — With three …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 51%, Clinton 40% — Both Democratic candidates have 46% to 44% margins over McCain — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama is maintaining his lead over Hillary Clinton among Democrats nationally in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking, with a 51% to 40% margin in the April 12-14 average.
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Bill Clinton: Older voters too savvy to fall for Obama — QUAKERTOWN, Pa. — Older voters gravitate to Hillary Clinton because they're too wise to be fooled by Barack Obama's rhetoric, former president Bill Clinton told Pennsylvania voters today. — Clinton's comments …
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WCAU-TV:
Poll: If Primary Held Week Early, Clinton Would Win By Double-Digits — If the Pennsylvania primary to select a Democratic nominee for president were held Tuesday, a week before the actual primary, Hillary Rodham Clinton would defeat Barack Obama by double-digit figures, a new SurveyUSA poll found.
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Fox News:
Montana Pol: Clinton Endorsement Preceded Obama ‘Cling’ Flap — Just when did Montana politico Bill Kennedy decide to endorse Hillary Clinton? — The Clinton campaign has suggested the Yellowstone County commissioner picked Clinton only after he heard Barack Obama's now famous “bitter” comments.
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Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton's Slash-and-Burn Politics May Hurt Her More Than Obama
Why Hillary Clinton's Slash-and-Burn Politics May Hurt Her More Than Obama
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Scott Martelle / Top of the Ticket:
LAT Poll: Rev. Wright flap might have helped Barack Obama in Pa.
LAT Poll: Rev. Wright flap might have helped Barack Obama in Pa.
Ross Douthat:
What Obama Really Got Wrong — Timothy Noah, surveying the literature on the white working class and its voting behavior in the wake of Obama's San Francisco fiasco, tiptoes close to an important point about the roots of culture-war politics but doesn't quite get there.
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Some Perspective on ‘Bitter’ — Maybe Barack Obama felt …
Some Perspective on ‘Bitter’ — Maybe Barack Obama felt …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Obama Wrong On Analysis As Well As Politics?
Obama Wrong On Analysis As Well As Politics?
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Woe Is He — Barack Obama's going to be the bitter one at the end of this.
Woe Is He — Barack Obama's going to be the bitter one at the end of this.
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Robert S. McElvaine / The Huffington Post:
Pope Should Start “Spiritual Renewal” with Bisexual God — On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI asked the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray that his first visit to the United States as pontiff this week would “be a time of spiritual renewal for all Americans.”
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Northern Exposure:
Accommodations — McDonald's fails to accommodate employee unable to wash hands — In Canada, human rights legislation provides that employers have a duty to accommodate disabled workers unless such accommodation would cause “undue hardship” on the employer.
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Duane R. Patterson / Townhall.com:
Senate Democrats Can't Count, And They Think You Smell Funny — Thanks to the amazing skill Barack Obama has shown this week of how easily he can stick his foot in his mouth while trying to speak off the cuff, the country continues to focus on who is or is not bitter, and whether guns …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Return of the pin — As a reader noticed, Obama was sporting the much-debated flag pin for his speech to veterans today. — UPDATE: The pin was given to Obama by a disabled vet at the event.
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Matthew Palevsky / The Huffington Post:
Ex-CIA Analyst Outs Cheney — What could have possessed Prime Minister Maliki to rush headlong into a battle he was thoroughly unprepared for? The Bush Administration has responded with certainty about only one thing: they were not involved in the planning.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Fox anchor son asked “hitting the sauce” question — GOP p.r. guy/proud Villanova grad Jonathan Grella has a great catch from Hardball at his alma mater: the kid who asked the smart aleck question I referenced below about Hillary “hitting the sauce” is the son of Fox anchor Steve Doocy.
Michelle Malkin:
Introducing Barack “Arugula” Obama; Update: CafePress says, “No, you can't” — Artfully talented reader Tennyson, inspired by See-Dubya's posts on Obama's arugula gaffe (see here and here) and by Michael Bates's funny 2007 post on “typical liberal arugulance,” has cooked up a new photoshop …
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John McCain 2008:
Remarks By John McCain On The Economy — ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain will deliver the following remarks as prepared for delivery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, today at 9:45 a.m. EDT: — Thank you. I appreciate the hospitality of the Allegheny Business Conference …
Richard Conniff / New York Times:
Abolish All ‘Taxes’ — THE word “tax” was never pretty. But it has lately become the ugliest word in the English language, right up there with its evil twin, “death.” Even in time of war, ostensibly patriotic politicians blithely pledge to slay any tax that rears its ghastly head.
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