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Pew Research Center:
Obama's Image Slips, His Lead Over Clinton Disappears — Public Support for Free Trade Declines — Summary of Findings — Democratic voters are not as positive about Barack Obama as they were a month ago. Somewhat smaller percentages of Democrats describe Obama in favorable terms …
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Indiana Poll Shows Clinton With Big Lead Over Obama — Survey Taker: Pastor Controversy Possibly Big Factor — INDIANAPOLIS — A statewide poll indicates a dramatic shift of support from Sen. Barack Obama to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ahead of next week's Indiana Democratic presidential primary …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton 49%, Obama 45% — McCain leads Obama in general election; McCain and Clinton tied — PRINCETON, NJ — Hillary Clinton has edged ahead of Barack Obama, 49% to 45%, in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update. — The four percentage point Clinton advantage …
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama losing support — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new national poll suggests the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is a virtual tie. — Forty-six percent of registered Democratic voters questioned …
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The Politico:
What Obama wishes he could say — Thrown off his game by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright uproar, Barack Obama's strongest answer to Hillary Rodham Clinton is one he won't give: Senator, do you really want to get in a contest with me over who has more unsavory personal associations?
Des Moines Register:
McCain fields audience question on whether he called wife an expletive — A widespread Internet rumor about Sen. John McCain popped up in an audience question today during the Republican presidential candidate's Iowa forum. — A member of the audience at the Polk County Convention Complex asked …
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The Huffington Post:
Baptist Minister Asks McCain: “Did You Call Your Wife A C**t?” (VIDEO) — At a town hall forum in Iowa today, Sen. John McCain was asked about a story from Cliff Schecter's controversial recent book, The Real McCain, which alleges that during a 1992 campaign stop, McCain angrily called his wife a …
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Chris Dorsey / Iowa Politics:
IowaPolitics.com: Questioner booted for rude language says he's worried by McCain's temper — DES MOINES — Clive businessman Marty Parrish was escorted from Sen. John McCain's town hall meeting by Des Moines police and members of the Secret Service after asking McCain if he had called his wife Cindy an expletive in 1992.
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CNN:
Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. — A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove …
Peter Dreier / The Huffington Post:
Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama — Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining the term “vast right-wing conspiracy” used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance of conservative media, think tanks, and political operatives …
Washington Post:
An Unfinished Mission — Five years ago, President Bush declared the mission in Iraq accomplished. The Post editorial board disagreed. Here's what the board wrote on May 4, 2003. — The victory celebration held aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln Thursday was well-deserved …
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Azi Paybarah / New York Observer:
Bloomberg: Clinton-McCain Gas Tax Break Is the ‘Dumbest Thing’ — Michael Bloomberg said giving drivers a break from the gas tax is “the dumbest thing I've heard in an awful long time.” — I asked him about it right after he delivered his executive budget at City Hall just now.
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Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
Barbara Walters reveals past affair with US senator — NEW YORK (AP) - entertainmentminute After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as “exciting” and “brilliant.”
Associated Press:
‘D.C. Madam’ dead in Florida — Palfrey had been convicted of running $2 million prostitution ring — TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - The woman convicted of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring that snagged a senator killed herself Thursday, police said, weeks after she was convicted on charges she vowed not to go to prison for.
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EXCLUSIVE: MYSTERIOUS CRIMES PLAGUE US ATTORNEY TARGETS — The Permanent Republican Majority Part VI — MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - In two states where US attorneys are already under fire for serious allegations of political prosecutions, seven people associated with three federal cases …
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