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Kbolton / North Carolina Democratic Party:
North Carolina Democratic Presidential Debate CANCELLED — We regret to inform you that the proposed Democratic Presidential Debate scheduled for April 27 has been cancelled due to time constraints and logistical issues associated with such a large, national event.
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Marc Ambinder:
North Carolina Cancels Debate — Despite pressure from the governor, from the local media, from their own-state campaign, Barack Obama's advisers refused to accept an invitation to debate in North Carolina because they did not want to give Hillary Clinton any excuse to stay in the race beyond Tuesday …
Drudge Report:
CLINTON INTERNALS SHOW 11-POINT LEAD IN PA — Controlled excitement is building inside of Clinton's inner circle as closely guarded internal polling shows the former first lady with an 11-point lead in Pennsylvania! — Clinton is polling near to nearly 2 to 1 over Obama in many regions of the state …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Regains Lead Over Clinton, 49% to 42% — A sharp reversal of the tightening of the race seen late last week — PRINCETON, NJ — Support for Barack Obama's nomination bid has rebounded among national Democratic voters, who now favor him over Hillary Clinton by a seven percentage point margin, 49% to 42%.
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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Dem voter surge could cut Clinton margin
Dem voter surge could cut Clinton margin
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The Hill:
McCain: Elizabeth Edwards claim ‘a cheap shot’ — During a somewhat testy interview with George Stephanopoulos, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that Elizabeth Edwards took a “cheap shot” at him by claiming that the presidential candidate had government healthcare his whole life.
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Mary Katharine Ham / TownHall Blog:
Seriously? — She's lucky Obama's so obviously elitist or this might come across as clumsy and forced. Errr...Anyway, without further ado, Hillary's planned appeal to the viewers of Monday Night Raw. All the candidates will be making a statement. I do appreciate the reference to the “people's elbow,” but who picked the name?
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Thomas Frank / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Touch of Class — Allow me to introduce myself. According to the general clucking of the national punditry, my 2004 book - “What's the Matter With Kansas?” - is supposed to have persuaded Barack Obama to describe the yeomanry of Pennsylvania as “bitter” people who …
CNN:
Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow joins CNN — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former White House press secretary Tony Snow will join CNN as a conservative commentator beginning Monday. — CNN president Jon Klein announced that Snow, a long-time political observer with a longstanding news background …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Bob Kerrey defends McCain on temper — Former Sen. Bob Kerrey is taking up for John McCain, disputing a detail of a major story focusing on his former colleague's temper and saying McCain's “anger always has a purpose.” — In a comment under my blog post last night noting McCain aide Mark …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Rendell And Farrakhan — One thought that this video inevitably raises: what if Obama had ever said such a thing or been to such an event? Given what we know now about this campaign, would it not be the conventional wisdom that it would be the end of his candidacy?
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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
McCain exits campaign money race — John McCain is abandoning any hope of catching the Democrats in fundraising. — Based on new financial disclosure reports released Sunday, and interviews with his finance team, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee will instead accept taxpayer money …
John McCormick / Chicago Tribune:
Obama: 'Why can't I just eat my waffle?' — SCRANTON, Pa. - As Sen. Hillary Clinton was preparing to campaign here today, Sen. Barack Obama was meeting with voters at a diner and apparently pretty hungry. — “Why can't I just eat my waffle?” he said, when asked a foreign policy question by a reporter at the Glider Diner.
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Redstate:
Obama and Google's Mutual Adviser: Jesus is gay, wears a diaper, and gets run over — “Call the Senate Commerce Committee at 202-224-5115. Tell the committee it is abhorrent to have Larry Lessig parroting Google's call for open networks while Google censors and denigrates Christians.”
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Fox News:
Hamas Leader Vows Not to Recognize Israel After Carter Trumpets Terror Group's Willingness to Be Good ‘Neighbor’ — JERUSALEM — Just hours after former President Jimmy Carter trumpeted Hamas' agreement to let Israel “live as a neighbor,” the same terrorist leader he met with face-to-face vowed not to recognize the Jewish state.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
MORE AD NONSENSE....Are the pro-Obama forces seriously trying to get their troops outraged over this latest ad from Hillary Clinton? Just because it contains a ten-second sequence of presidential crises (Depression, Pearl Harbor, gas crisis, Katrina, etc.) and flashes a half-second clip of Osama bin Laden as part of it?
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Strange Maps:
266 - Where News Breaks — As any journalist knows, news has to be about people - they either make it, or are affected by it. No people, no news. It therefore stands to reason that heavily populated areas of the US, like California or the Northeast, generate most of the news stories.
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Mike Allen / Associated Press:
Brawl for a bag of maize - Obama says McCain isn't Bush - Jenna and Mrs. Bush have a new book — BREAKING NEWS 1: MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice challenged Arab states to answer security improvements and political advances in Iraq, saying there are few excuses left for delay.