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1:25 PM ET, April 15, 2008

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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.
CQ Politics:
Clinton Rates Slim Edge Over Obama in PA District Delegate Race  —  Is Barack Obama trailing Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania by double digit percentages?  Or has he closed the gap to single digits, as recent polls suggest?  Could he even win the April 22 primary …
Philly.com:
Obama says he ‘mangled’ Pa. remark
Mark Silva / Baltimore Sun:
CLINTON ‘STALLS’ OBAMA IN PA. POLL
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Hot Air
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
At Clinton's Side in Pennsylvania, a Dedicated and Often Blunt Promoter
Discussion: Philly.com, MSNBC, The Caucus and The Page
Karl / protein wisdom:
Not much the matter with Kansas or Pennsylvania
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Woe Is He  —  Barack Obama's going to be the bitter one at the end of this.  —  Some liberal commentators have downplayed the effect of Barack Obama's fundraising speech at a San Francisco fundraiser last week.  But that's wishful thinking.  Along with the revelations about Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright …
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John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Flaws Multiply  —  Barack Obama's San Francisco-Democrat comment last week - about how alienated working-class voters “cling to guns or religion” - is already famous.  But the fact that his aides tell reporters he is privately bewildered that anybody took offense is even more remarkable.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Some Perspective on ‘Bitter’  —  Maybe Barack Obama felt he couldn't afford to give the correct answer.  —  He was asked at a fund-raiser in San Francisco about his campaign's experiences in the run-up to next week's Democratic primary in Pennsylvania.  One of the main problems, of course …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Candidate on a High Horse  —  Barack Obama may be exactly what his supporters suppose him to be.  Not, however, for reasons most Americans will celebrate.  —  Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism.  Explaining why many working-class voters are “bitter,” he said they “cling” …
See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:   Cracker-quiddick Fallout Continues To Haunt SnObama
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Loose Lips and Democratic Ships
The Politico:
Long-lost article by Obama's dad surfaces  —  Barack Obama's dad was such an important but absent figure in his life that he devoted his first book, Dreams From My Father, to the search for details about his father's life and how the quest helped forge a son's identity.
The Huffington Post:
Wall Street Journal Parody — With A Topless Ann Coulter — Rankles Murdoch In Real Life And On YouTube  —  My Wall Street Journal, a parody of the Wall Street Journal on newsstands this week to mark the April 15 tax deadline, has rankled News Corp executives so much that they're trying to make sure no one sees it.
CNN:
McCain economic plan targets tax code, gas prices  —  PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) — An end to earmarks, a gas-tax holiday, government-backed mortgages — they're all part of an economic-revival plan that a top aide to GOP Sen. John McCain described Tuesday as “big and ambitious.”
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Washington Wire:
McCain's Gas-Tax Plan May Be a Clunker
Discussion: MSNBC
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Jewish Liberals to Launch A Counterpoint to AIPAC  —  Political Funds, Lobbying to Promote Arab-Israeli Peace Deal  —  Some of the country's most prominent Jewish liberals are forming a political action committee and lobbying group aimed at dislodging what they consider the excessive hold …
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Laura Rozen / MoJoBlog:
New “Pro Israel, Pro Peace” …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
McCain, Military Oppose Expanding GI Bill  —  Presidential Hopeful Believes Legislation Would Hurt Military  —  Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, seemed to give a thumbs down to bipartisan legislation that would greatly expand educational benefits …
Michael Alison Chandler / Washington Post:
At McLean School, Playing Tag Turns Into Hot Potato  —  A playground pastime is getting a timeout this spring at a McLean elementary school.  —  Robyn Hooker, principal of Kent Gardens Elementary School, has told students they may no longer play tag during recess after determining that the game of chasing …
Matthew Yglesias:
Out of Touch  —  This is the first add from Progressive Media, the David Brock-helmed independent expenditure group that's supposed to whack John McCain while Clinton and Obama continue to duke it out:  —  When you think about how potentially damaging something as basic as …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David Weiner / The Huffington Post:
McCain “Family Recipes” Lifted from the Food Network  —  What will they call it?  Farfallegate?  Rosemary Chicken Dome Scandal?  Perhaps something with the ubiquitous Rachael Ray in it.  —  It seems that Cindy McCain, John McCain's perfect, blonde beer-baroness wife is about to find herself painted …
 
 
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