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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
BILL: 'I'M NOT GOING TO PLAY YOUR GAMES' — From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli and NBC's Mark Murray — At the Jewish Community Center in Pittsburgh this morning, Bill Clinton took questions from local press after shaking a lot of hands. NBC/NJ asked him about the WHYY radio interview …
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Dan Pohlig / Y-Decide 2008:
President Bill Clinton says the Obama campaign “played the race card” on him — “I think that they played the race card on me. We now know, from memos from the campaign that they planned to do it along.” - President Bill Clinton. — And that's how President Clinton begins his answer …
Fox News:
Bill Clinton Bristles Over Open-Mic Moment — Former President Bill Clinton had a testy encounter Tuesday with reporters who questioned his apparently inadvertent and salty open-mic moment following a radio interview in which he accused the Obama campaign of unfairly playing the race card on him.
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CNN:
Bill Clinton: Obama camp ‘played the race card on me’ — (CNN) — On the eve of Tuesday's critical Pennsylvania primary, former President Bill Clinton accused Barack Obama's campaign of playing the race card against him. — After the phone interview with Delaware radio station WHYY Monday night …
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.
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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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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Lowell / Badlands Blue:
George McGovern takes a “dig” at John McCain — The following is transcribed from Sen. McGovern's speech Saturday night at the McGovern Day dinner in Sioux Falls.
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
Obama Campaign Memo on Clinton's Pennsylvania Expectations — RE: The Bar for Clinton in Pennsylvania and Beyond — With all eyes on today's contest, one thing is clear: Pennsylvania is considered a state tailor-made for Hillary Clinton, and by rights she should win big.
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Saira Anees / Political Punch:
Clinton's Iran Threat Contradicts Previous Position on Making Such Comments — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, told Chris Cuomo on GMA this morning that should Iran attack Israel with nuclear weapons, “I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran...In the next 10 years …
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Michael Scherer / Time:
A Willie Horton Hit on Obama? — An old right-wing attack dog has returned with a new target: Barack Obama. — Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988 …
Michael Dobbs / Fact Checker:
DR. OBAMA AND DR. MCCAIN — MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, PA., APRIL 21, 2008. … TWO LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES HAVE NOW WANDERED INTO AN EXCEPTIONALLY EMOTIONAL MEDICAL DEBATE IN WHICH THEY HAVE NO KNOWN SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE. SEVERAL ADVOCACY GROUPS AND FAMILIES OF CHILDREN …
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.