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In Oklahoma: Henry backs Obama — Gov. Brad Henry, who said earlier he would not endorse a Democratic presidential candidate until this summer's national convention, announced this morning he is supporting Barack Obama. — The endorsement means Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois …
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Matthew Yglesias, Political Machine, The Page, Donklephant, Political Punch and The Field
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News Analysis: The Bruising Will Go on for the Party, Too — For better or worse — and many Democrats fear it is for worse — the race goes on. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated Senator Barack Obama in Pennsylvania on Tuesday by enough of a margin to continue a battle …
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BuzzFlash.org, Althouse, MSNBC, New York Magazine, Tennessee Guerilla Women, NO QUARTER, Liberal Values, The Huffington Post and The Page
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Obama Shifting Focus From Clinton to McCain — EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Senator Barack Obama opened the next phase of his presidential campaign here Tuesday evening, seeking to turn his focus away from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and persuade party leaders that time is running out for Democrats …
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MSNBC, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Page, Comments from Left Field, LiberalOasis, The Belmont Club and NO QUARTER
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Clinton Clearly Outduels Obama in Pennsylvania — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a decisive victory over Senator Barack Obama on Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, giving her candidacy a critical boost as she struggles to raise money and persuade party leaders to let the Democratic nominating fight go on.
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MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, QandO, The Caucus, American Street, Harry's Place, PunditGuy, ScrappleFace and BBC
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Obama's Gloves Are Off — And May Need to Stay Off — Unable once again to score a knockout, Sen. Barack Obama is likely to make his new negative tone even more negative — with a sharp eye on trying to end the Democratic presidential nomination fight after the May 6 primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.
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TownHall Blog, TPM Election Central, HillaryClinton.com, The Page, The Moderate Voice and Political Machine
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Clinton's win in Pa. leaves Obama battered, party reeling
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Hot Air
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Dems Fight On; Clinton Wins PA Primary
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Don Surber, The Swamp, Telegraph, The Democratic Daily, PoliGazette, Outside The Beltway, skippy the bush kangaroo, The Trail, Redstate, Vox Popoli, TalkLeft, About.com US Politics, Fox News, The Moderate Voice, Trailwatch, Blue Crab Boulevard, Buck Naked Politics, CBS News, TownHall Blog, MSNBC, Matthew Yglesias, Political Radar, Washington Times, QandO, Los Angeles Times, Gawker, The Reaction, Donklephant and Political Punch
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The Low Road to Victory — The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.
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McCain's Stalking Horse? — If Hillary can't win the nomination—and it's clearly very, very hard for her—she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.
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Breaking News (Updated): Ron Paul surges in Pa. — While some people pay attention to the alleged contest between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (and she won big), almost unnoticed is the Republican primary. — Many people think Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has won the GOP nomination.
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THE FRIENDS OF BARACK OBAMA, PART 1 — When Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer decided to retire in 1995, she hand-picked local left-winger Barack Obama as her successor. In order to introduce Obama to influential liberals in the district, she held a function at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
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michellemalkin.com, The Jawa Report, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Townhall.com and Pajamas Media
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The Ayers-Dohrn 2007 Audio — Mark Steyn and James Lileks …
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Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
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Wilting Over Waffles — He's never going to shake her off. — Not all by himself. — The very fact that he can't shake her off has become her best argument against him. “Why can't he close the deal?” Hillary taunted at a polling place on Tuesday. — She's been running ads about it …
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TalkLeft, Publius Pundit, Whiskey Fire, Prairie Weather, michellemalkin.com, Brendan Nyhan and Althouse
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Dead actor Roy Scheider donates to Barack Obama campaign anyway — Sen. Barack Obama does come from the Chicago school of politics, where historically voter turnout has been unusually high for residents of certain graveyards. And he has been unusually successful raising money.
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Power Line
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CIA to describe North Korea-Syria nuclear ties — Officials will tell Congress members this week that North Korea was helping Syria build a reactor last year when it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, a U.S. official says. — WASHINGTON — CIA officials will tell Congress on Thursday …
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The Lede
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Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital — KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
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Where did we go wrong? — The networks have called it for Hillary and I think after Florida in 2000 they're not going to make that mistake again, so obviously our polls were wrong. — First off, please do not call us or e-mail us and tell us we suck! We are well aware, and it does not feel good.
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The Worst Of All Worlds For The Dems — Right now, the actual results suggest what I thought would be the worst possible result for the Democrats: a nine point win for Clinton. It doesn't change the race's dynamic or the math; but it will give Clinton just the tiniest sliver of an argument that she should not drop out.
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GREEN & SMART — EARTH-SAVING DONE RIGHT — I HAVEN'T been able to get very excited about the big global-warming debate - but I am excited about some solutions to global warming. These are just as worthwhile even if you don't believe that human-created climate change is a big problem, or even a reality.
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STATUS QUO ANTE — Lots of spin coming from both campaigns tonight. I'd say the real story is that this leaves us basically where we were. It was a decisive win for Hillary but that was the expectation. Going into tonight I think the dividing line was about 8 points.