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6:00 PM ET, May 2, 2008

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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Clinton Adviser Claims Indiana Slur Video Is Conspiracy  —  A former aide to President Bill Clinton, and current informal adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton, expressed outrage and shock on Friday after a videotape from 1992 surfaced allegedly showing him describing Indianans as “white n—rs.”
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Clinton operative didn't call Indianans “white n*****s” in 1992 Update III: Dirty trick?  Update: Character witness  —  Update IV: This is almost certainly a dirty trick aimed at Mickey Kantor and the Clinton campaign.  Read all the way through the updates.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Worthless White Ni**ers”?  —  Yesterday, I hadn't seen the last part of this clip (see the first version here) and the latest viral video is different and longer.  —  Kantor is now saying that what you hear on the tape is untrue, and it's been doctored: … Yes, he's a lawyer.
Byron York / The Corner:
Mickey Kantor Does Not Hold the People of Indiana in the Highest Esteem
Discussion: Wonkette
Michelle Malkin:
Hillary advisor Mickey Kantor dissed Indiana voters in 1992 …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: McCain Moves to 6-Point Lead Over Obama  —  Clinton 48%, Obama 46% in national Democratic nomination preferences  —  PRINCETON, NJ — John McCain has moved to a six percentage point, 48% to 42%, lead over Barack Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking of the general election …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, MyDD and MSNBC
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Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
Boris Johnson poised to become London Mayor as Tories seal local election success  —  Boris Johnson is preparing to be unveiled as the new mayor of London later today following Labour's collapse across Britain in the local elections.  —  Senior Conservative sources said they would be …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Atlas Shrugs
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Miranda Richardson / Sky News:
Boris Johnson Heads For London Victory
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and PoliGazette
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   In Britain, The Tories Surge
Telegraph:
The most influential US political pundits: 10-1  —  Telegraph.co.uk unveils the last installment of its list of the 50 most influential political pundits in America.  With just over six months before United States citizens choose their 44th president, the 2008 election is already proving …
Lindsey Ellerson / Political Radar:
Clinton: Tuesday Will Be a ‘Game Changer’  —  ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton speaking in Kinston, NC said that Tuesday's primary will be a big day in the contest for the Democratic nomination.  Clinton has denied in interviews and in press availabilities that she will drop out of the race if she loses Indiana.
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: OBAMA'S BACK TO THE WALL
Steven Emerson / Articles by the Investigative Project …:
Investigative Project Releases Gov't Memos Curtailing Speech in War on Terror  —  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to identify the “influential Muslim Americans” and “leading U.S.-based scholars and commentators on Islam” who met with Secretary Michael Chertoff in helping shape …
Rasmussen Reports:
58% Say Obama Denounced Wright for Political Convenience, not Outrage  —  A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 30% of the nation's Likely Voters believe Barack Obama denounced his former Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, because he was outraged.  Most—58%—say he denounced the Pastor for political convenience.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
John McCain: Chief of own VP search  —  For those wondering whether an eminence gris such as Warren Christopher or Dick Cheney will soon head Sen. John McCain's vice presidential selection committee, the answer is yes and no, depending upon whether you think of McCain as a wise old Washington hand.
Discussion: The Page
Ronald Brownstein / MSNBC:
McCain must explain his Iraq vigil  —  How long is he willing to keep U.S. forces in a front-line combat role?  —  POLITICAL CONNECTIONS  —  WASHINGTON - The firefight over John McCain's long-term intentions in Iraq flared again this week when the Democratic National Committee aired …
Keith Dinsmore / The Huffington Post:
Questioner Dragged Out Of McCain Town Hall Talks To OffTheBus  —  OffTheBus member Keith Dinsmore was on the scene at the McCain healthcare town hall in Iowa Wednesday where Marty Parrish posed a question to the candidate the mainstream media weren't asking.  Parrish was dragged out by secret service agents.
Elizabeth Wurtzel / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Other Radical Friends  —  When I was 15, I read an article in Rolling Stone about the Weather Underground and became fascinated with Bernardine Dohrn.  As a leader of the militant arm of Students for a Democratic Society, she was renowned for her beauty and daring, for her revolutionary rhetoric …
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Taylor Marsh
Matthew Yglesias:
Diplomacy: What is it Good For  —  I was on a radio show last night where I wound up in a debate about whether or not diplomacy was likely to be able to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue in a satisfactory manner.  It occurred to me that one issue I was having that, in retrospect …
 
 
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Michael Tomasky / Guardian Unlimited:
Hillary's right turn
Discussion: Swampland
Ronald Brownstein / National Journal Online:
When Blue Collars Are a Tight Fit
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
The Insurgent as Counterinsurgent
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
CW: Still Obama
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Loyal to the Bitterness
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama: Voters Don't Want Drama
The Huffington Post:
Geraldo Admits He Was In Love With Barbara Walters But She Rejected …
Discussion: Think Progress
Matthew Yglesias:
Hurdles  —  Ambinder reports: “Clinton advisors think their candidate …
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
‘The Empire Strikes Barack’
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Fair Play for False Prophets
Karl / protein wisdom:
Dems 2008: Are Clintonites suppressing the vote in NC?
Patrick Condon / Associated Press:
Republican blogger has Al Franken's Senate campaign reeling
Ari B. Bloomekatz / Los Angeles Times:
Teacher fired for refusing to sign loyalty oath
Indianapolis Star:
Experience makes Clinton better choice in primary
Pablo Guzman / WCBS-TV:
On YOUR Dime: Congressmen Lease Luxury Cars
Bill Vlasic / New York Times:
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