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National Journal Online:
Q&A: David Plouffe — Obama's Manager Discusses Clinton's Negatives & The Delegate Race — Fri. — National Journal's Linda Douglass sat down with David Plouffe, Barack Obama's campaign manager, for the April 25 edition of “National Journal On Air.” This is a transcript of their conversation.
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Geoff Garin / Washington Post:
Fair Is Fair — What's wrong with this picture? Our campaign runs a TV ad Monday saying that the presidency is the toughest job in the world and giving examples of challenges presidents have faced and challenges the next president will face — including terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan …
See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:
Hillary Clinton: Prayer Warrior. — Wow, it looks like we've seriously misunderstood the depth and importance of Hillary Clinton's religious faith: … As the “American Papist” site notes, she's very ecumenical, too: … Yet despite her sincere, abiding Metholic/Cathedist faith …
Ben Smith / The Politico:Plouffe: McCain has the racist vote anyway
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Olbermann Comments on Hillary Causing Stir — Keith Olbermann's latest: A discussion with Howard Fineman about the need for a superdelegate to “take [Clinton] into a room and only he comes out."/p> — Bloggers say he called for Hillary's murder. Here's a different take by RiverDaughter at Confluence:
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Delilah Boyd, Anglachel's Journal, Redstate, Classical Values, The Confluence and Althouse
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The Huffington Post:
Keith Olbermann's Idea For Beating Hillary: Literally Beating Hillary — There are two kinds of people in the world: People who think there's an ugly strain of misogyny running through Hillary Clinton's media coverage, and people who think she's just not very likable and deserves it for running …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Keith Olbermann Apologizes For Crack About Hillary — As I've noted here before, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has a bizarre tendency to listen to the substance of criticism against him. Even more strange, considering that he's a top-shelf media star, is the fact that he apologizes for his conduct when he's wrong.
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Think Progress
Saira Anees / Political Punch:
DNC Official: “You Know What You Call Someone Who Digs Up Dirt on John McCain? An Archeologist” — Call it the perils of Twitter. — Or a new Maginot Line in what Slate's John Dickerson has called “the Umbrage War.” — On his Facebook page, the Democratic National Committee's director of research …
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
Obama-DNC Fundraising Deal — After a series of discussions, the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have decided to file papers with the Federal Election Commission establishing a “joint fundraising agreement.” Under the law, such a committee can accept up to $28,500 from individuals …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama and Clinton Tied at 48% to 47% — Clinton's increased support has mainly come from undecided voters — PRINCETON, NJ — The Democratic nomination race is now tied, with Barack Obama favored by 48% of national Democratic voters and Hillary Clinton by 47%.
Ben / Think Progress:
Matthews: Whites are ‘willing’ to support Obama in the same way they ‘root for black athletes.’ — Last night on Hardball, host Chris Matthews sought to give Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) some “advice” on how to get white Americans to vote for him for president: … Watch it:
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Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
BIG HRC FUNDRAISER DEFECTS TO OBAMA — From NBC's Chuck Todd — One of the things that both Dem campaigns are always nervous about is defectors. In particular, Clinton is more vulnerable to this problem since she's the candidate that is trailing. Well, NBC News has learned …
Alan I. Abramowitz / The New Republic:
Cheer Up, Democrats! — Even if the primary stretches on, a long-term tectonic shift in the electorate means the party is in great shape for November. — It's all over but the shouting. Even though the Democratic Convention is still four months away and the presidential election …
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MyDD, The Daily Dish, protein wisdom, Democratic Strategist, Marc Ambinder, Prairie Weather and New York Times
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Bernard-Henri Lévy / Wall Street Journal:
The Sad End of Jimmy Carter — The problem is not that he is, or is not, talking to the Syrians - everyone does it to some degree. — It isn't that he went to Damascus to meet with the exiled head of Hamas - everyone, including the Israelis, will one day have to do that too …
Associated Press:
ElBaradei slams Israel for attacking Syrian nuclear reactor — The head of the UN nuclear monitoring agency on Friday criticized the US for not giving his organization intelligence information sooner on what Washington says was a nuclear reactor in Syria being built secretly by North Korea.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:Government Releases Images of Syrian Reactor
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Washington Monthly, Brookings Institute, TPMCafe, Danger Room, ArmsControlWonk, Washington Post, FP Passport, Salon, Think Progress and Hullabaloo
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
McCain: “Clear Who Hamas Wants to be the Next President” — McCain spoke with bloggers this morning on a number of issues ranging from William Ayers to Rev. Wright to Tony Rezko. Jennifer Rubin noted that Hamas had endorsed Senator Obama and asked McCain whether Obama might have given “an unhelpful signal” to the terrorist group.
WCBS-TV:
COPS ACQUITTED IN 50-SHOT SEAN BELL SHOOTING DEATH — 3 NYPD Detectives Cleared Of All Charges In 2006 Incident — Sharpton: Verdict Was An ‘Abortion’ Of Justice — NEW YORK (CBS) ― In what marks the end of one of the most high-profile police-involved shooting trials in New York City …
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Marc Ambinder:
DNC To Assess Challenges On 5/31 — The DNC will convene its rules and bylaws committee on the last day of May to consider two challenges, that, if successful, could change the delegate math just as the primary season is about to close. But the date of the meeting may be too late for Hillary Clinton …
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Pennsylvania Presidential Election — Pennsylvania: McCain 44% Obama 43% — What a difference two weeks of intense campaigning can make. The final two weeks of campaigning in the Pennsylvania Primary may not have changed the outcome of the Democratic race, but it helped John McCain in the Keystone State.
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