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Gallup Daily: Clinton 46%, Obama 45% — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows that Hillary Clinton now receives 46% of the support of Democrats nationally, compared to 45% for Barack Obama, marking the first time Obama has not led in Gallup's daily tracking since March 18-20.
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Obama Campaign Revives Attack Over Clinton's ‘Bosnia’ Account — ABC News' Sunlen Miller and Kate Snow report: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has reinvigorated its attack against Sen. Hillary Clinton, today rolling out three Bosnian war veterans to make the case that Clinton was dishonorable …

Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To '70s Radicals — A high-ranking labor supporter of Hillary Clinton is distributing to union leaders and to Democratic strategists a document detailing the radical activities of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn …
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The new Dem meme: What Will Karl Do? — We could see this coming for months, and the results should be delicious. Huffington Post writer Tom Edsall reveals that a union has developed an extensive and detailed attack on Barack Obama's connection with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn …
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Sadr Gives Maliki Last Warning On Ceasefire (Updated) — Just breaking is the news that Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to end his movement's ceasefire, unless the Maliki government and US military end their crackdown, in a statement posted to his website.
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Iraqi Army Seizes Basra From Militia as Cleric Threatens New Uprising
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Iraqi, U.S. Forces Put Pressure on Mahdi Army
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KINKY NEWS NETWORK — CNN'S QUEST A VERY ‘KNOTTY’ BOY — This is CNN? Kinky! — CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law-enforcement sources said.

Trigger Happy — In words that he has come to regret, Barack Obama opined as to why he was having a hard time winning over many blue-collar voters: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”


Clinton, Obama press for advantage ahead of pivotal primary — Obama accuses Clinton of ‘slash and burn’ tactics ahead of pivotal Pennsylvania primary — Barack Obama cast his Democratic presidential rival Saturday as a game-player who uses “slash and burn” tactics and will say whatever people …
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Sex for diploma offer caught on tape — HOUSTON (KTRK) — The founder of a Christian school is confronted after 13 Undercover catches him soliciting sex from a parent, who's trying to get her daughter a high school diploma. — At graduation ceremonies he talks about God …

Road Map to Defeat — The Democrats are doing everything they can to blow this presidential election. This is a skill that comes naturally to the party. There is no such thing as a can't-miss year for the Democrats. They are truly gifted at finding ways to lose.


Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand — In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse …

Guns and God? Hell, yes — Obama attacks two of the things that elevate the U.S. above places like Europe — Our lesson today comes from the songwriter Frank Loesser: — “Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition.” — Or as Barack Obama and his San Francisco pals would put it: God and guns.
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McCain: ‘A lot of our problems today are psychological.’ — This week on Fox News, Neil Cavuto asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about the worth of rescinding an 18-cent gas tax as prices at the pump escalate this summer. McCain responded that “a lot of our problems today” are “psychological” — even the “ability to keep our own home”:
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The Moderate Voice, Buck Naked Politics, Democrats.com, Crooks and Liars, Wonk Room, Comments from Left Field and Daily Kos

For Clintons, a Time to Find Truest Friends — WASHINGTON — Nancy Larson's most difficult conversation was, by far, the one with Chelsea Clinton. — “It was just heartbreaking,” said Mrs. Larson, a Democratic National Committee member from Minnesota and more to the point …

April Morning — Patriots Day may be the least known American holiday, and the day most deserving of our recognition. Observed in Massachusetts and Maine only. Don't know it? It marks the day, April 19, 1775, on which Americans took up arms against their king, and bled, at the crack of terrible dawn.