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Brian Braiker / Newsweek:
Losing Ground — After losing Pennsylvania and a difficult month of scandals, Barack Obama's double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton has dropped to seven points in the latest NEWSWEEK poll. — After an important primary win in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton has reduced Democratic rival …
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Washington Post:
Party Fears Racial Divide — The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm …
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Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
He's Back — Bill Clinton gives his wife's campaign new momentum as he seizes a bigger role — HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Bill Clinton, who called himself the “comeback kid” during his first presidential run, is pulling out all the stops for Hillary Clinton's comeback.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Heading Toward the Danger Zone — Barack Obama is winning, so why does it look like Hillary Clinton is having all the fun? — Senator Obama has been thrown completely off his game by a combination of political attacks (some fair, some foul), a toxic eruption (the volcanic Jeremiah Wright …
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Settling Scores — If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances. — I'm beginning to think Hillary Clinton might pull this off and wrestle the nomination away from Barack Obama. If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Media Conventional Wisdom Shifting Towards Belief Clinton Could Defeat Obama? — There are signs of what could be a shift in the news media conventional wisdom: for the first time in months, some key pundits are hinting and even saying that Senator Barack Obama could lose the Democratic nomination …
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Associated Press:
Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate — MARION, Ind. (AP) — Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that's largely …
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Dave Winer / The Huffington Post:
Why is it so quiet after the Moyers-Wright interview? — I expected a roaring debate in the political blogosphere this morning, and on cable news after the Friday night Bill Moyers interview with Rev Jeremiah Wright. Instead, there's eerie quiet. — The most I could find was this post …
New York Times:
McCain Frequently Used Wife's Jet for Little Cost — Given Senator John McCain's signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets.
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Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats — FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending. — But minutes into the talk, the officer …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dissent Of The Day II — A reader writes: … My response is simply that honorable campaigns do not allow foreign agents, especially terrorist organizations, to insert themselves into American presidential politics. No respectable foreign governments do such a thing; and the gambits of al Qaeda …
New York Times:
3 Candidates With 3 Plans, but One Deficit — The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates differ strikingly in their approaches to taxes and spending, but their fiscal plans have at least one thing in common: each could significantly swell the budget deficit and increase the national debt …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
‘Very friendly’ on Fox — We won't know for sure until the Fox interview airs tomorrow, but Chris Wallace hinted that Obama didn't take the confrontational line his staff suggested he would. — In a message to TPM — which was a major voice in the Netroots assault on Fox last year — an anonymous Obama aide wrote:
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