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12:00 PM ET, April 22, 2008

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The Politico:
Five things to watch in Pennsylvania  —  PITTSBURGH - When the Democratic presidential primary moved to Pennsylvania in early March, the central question was never whether Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would win the state.  Rather, it was by how much.  —  Six weeks later, the question remains the same.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
8 Questions About The Pennsylvania Primary  —  What will it take to be declared the winner in Pennsylvania today?  —  1. Conventional wisdom has taken such a beating in this campaign that setting expectations for today's primary continues to confound the experts.
Gabe Sherman / The New Republic:
How Olbermann Landed Hillary
Discussion: MSNBC, Salon and TalkLeft
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Pennsylvania Primary Prediction Time!
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:   Pennsylvania could decide Clinton's fate
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama prepares to spin loss as victory
Discussion: CNN and michellemalkin.com
Susan Page / USA Today:
Bush's disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.  —  In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday …
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USA Today:
Obama widens national lead in USA TODAY/Gallup Poll  —  WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has widened his lead nationally for the Democratic presidential nomination despite a furor over his comments about small-town Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.  Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT
Discussion: Fox News
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
BAMA-GEDDON IN HILL AD
Discussion: MSNBC and New York Times
Mark Mooney / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton: Obama Played Race Card On Me
New York Times:
A Developer, His Deals and His Ties to McCain  —  Donald R. Diamond, a wealthy Arizona real estate developer, was racing to snap up a stretch of virgin California coast freed by the closing of an Army base a decade ago when he turned to an old friend, Senator John McCain.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
“A CONSTITUENT MATTER”....The New York Times tells the story today …
Matthew Yglesias:
Nuke, Nuke, Nuke, Nuke Nuke Iran?  —  In an interview with ABC News, Hillary Clinton said “In the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.”  But then Howard Wolfson told Ben Smith that neither …
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Saira Anees / Political Punch:   Clinton's Iran Threat Contradicts Previous Position on Making Such Comments
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton's tough talk
Discussion: Open Left
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Obama's Waffle Controversy  —  Update: More from CNN on Obama refusing pressers for ten days or more and how the campaign teased them about it.  —  Barack Obama got cranky with a reporter today when asked a question at a diner about Jimmy Carter meeting with Hamas. … What's the big deal?
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Joshua Mitnick / Washington Times:
Hamas rebuts Carter's claim of concession  —  JERUSALEM — Hamas said yesterday it was prepared to accept a Palestinian state within 1967 borders, but contradicted a statement by former President Jimmy Carter that it would accept Israel's right to exist if that was the will of the Palestinian people.
WYFF-TV:
Small Church's Obama Sign Causes Big Controversy  —  JONESVILLE, S.C. — The sign in front of a small church in a small town is causing a big controversy in Jonesville, S.C.  —  Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking.  So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
A measure of racism: 15 percent?  —  I was talking the other day to a prominent Republican who asked me what I thought John McCain's strongest issues would be in the general election.  —  Lower taxes and the argument he will be better able to protect America from its enemies, I said.
Zogby:
Newsmax/Zogby Poll: Clinton Up 10 Points; Beats Margin of Error  —  UTICA, New York - New York's Hillary Clinton continued to pull away from rival Barack Obama of Illinois as the campaigning in Pennsylvania ended and voters prepared to cast ballots today, the latest Newsmax/Zogby daily telephone tracking poll shows.
Wall Street Journal:
That ‘Insulting’ Pope  —  It's not everyday that a backbencher in Congress draws international attention by insulting the spiritual leader of one in four Americans.  But Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo, the anti-immigrant obsessive, wasn't about to miss his moment.
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Cafe Hayek
David Brown / Washington Post:
Life Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women  —  Historic Reversal, Found in 1,000 Counties, May Be Result of Smoking and Obesity  —  For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Wall St. Journal Editor Expected to Resign  —  Marcus W. Brauchli will step down as the top-ranking editor of The Wall Street Journal after less than a year in the job, four people briefed on the matter said on Monday, just four months after Rupert Murdoch took control of the paper.
Discussion: Time, Gawker, New York Magazine and Newsweek
 
 
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Sam Wood / Philly.com:
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Gary Langer / The Numbers:
PA Primary: What to Watch
Associated Press:
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Discussion: AMERICAblog and Gateway Pundit
CBS News:
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Michael Dobbs / Fact Checker:
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Gateway Pundit:
Britain Cancels St. George's Parade Over Fear of Muslim Riots
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WOWOWOW:
Does a Little Obama ‘Elitism’ Go a Long Way in Politics?
Bruce Bartlett / Los Angeles Times:
The GOP's bait-and-switch tax strategy
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Tony Snow: ‘I love the folks at Fox’
Discussion: The Caucus
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