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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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Thomas B. Edsall / The Huffington Post:
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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David Barstow / New York Times:
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 …
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New York Times:
Iraqi Army Seizes Basra From Militia as Cleric Threatens New Uprising — BAGHDAD — Iraqi soldiers took control of the last bastions of the cleric Moktada al-Sadr's militia in Basra on Saturday, and Iran's ambassador to Baghdad strongly endorsed the Iraqi government's monthlong military operation against the fighters.
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Caitlin Moran / Times of London:
British guns pound Basra — IRAQI forces backed by British troops and artillery seized the main stronghold of the radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern port city of Basra yesterday. — The operation, which also involved RAF and American aircraft, forced the cleric's Mahdi army militants …
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Michael James / Political Radar:
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 …
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
OBAMA GOES ON OFFENSE ON AIR — From NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan — The Obama campaign is up with two new ads in Pennsylvania, starting today, one of which accuses Clinton of introducing a health-care plan that forces individuals to purchase insurance “even if they can't afford it.”
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
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 …
Arthur C. Brooks / mobile2.wsj.com:
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.”
New York Post:
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.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
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.
New York Times:
U.S. Commanders Seeking to Widen Pakistan Attacks — WASHINGTON — American commanders in Afghanistan have in recent months urged a widening of the war that could include American attacks on indigenous Pakistani militants in the tribal areas inside Pakistan, according to United States officials.
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