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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 …
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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Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
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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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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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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John Dickerson / Slate:
RIDING THE RAILS WITH SEN. OBAMA IN PENNSYLVANIA. — DOWNINGTON, Pa.— At the next train stop, I'm going to stand behind Senator Obama when he speaks. When he's decrying the trivial distractions in politics, I think he may be crossing his fingers behind his back.
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Clintons Sort Friends: Past and Present — 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 / Wall Street Journal:
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.”
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Yahoo! News:
Obama linked to gun control efforts — Barack Obama's presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn't want to take away their guns. — But before he became a national political figure …
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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.
Larry Eichel / Philly.com:
Obama pushes across Pa. — He ended the day urging thousands in Phila. to send a message Tuesday. — Sen. Barack Obama launched his closing Pennsylvania blitz yesterday by traveling from one corner of the state to the other, starting in Erie and closing with a massive outdoor rally on the streets of Philadelphia.
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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.