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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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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 …
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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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
America's turn: How bitter are you? Vote now — For days now we've all been reading about how bitter or not bitter small-town Pennsylvanians are. — All three major remaining presidential candidates — Sens. John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who started this whole thing …
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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 …
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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.
Nitya / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Keeps ‘Bitter’ Alive — ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Former president Bill Clinton's campaign rally this morning at the junior high gym in Corydon, Indiana was a wealth of Hillary Clinton surrogates, among them many who had their own thoughts about Sen. Barack Obama's recent comments about small town voters.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Gallup Daily: Obama Support Holding Despite Small-Town “Bitter” Flap
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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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Obama would ask his AG to “immediately review” potential of crimes in Bush White House — Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race …
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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 …
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 …
Michael Ledeen / The Corner:
Italy: It's a landslide — Huge, perhaps historic, victory for Berlusconi's “Popolo della liberta' ” (which translates a bit awkwardly as “the people of liberty;” maybe it's better to call it “the freedom folks"). It's considerably worse than AP lets on. Berlusconi defeated Walter Veltroni's …
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
HOW THE ASIANS BECAME WHITE: I've discussed this phenomenon — of Asians not only being classified together with whites for various race preference programs (and calls for such programs), but of actually being called white — in the past. Razib Khan at Gene Expression points …
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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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CNN:
Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket — (CNN) — Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.
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