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12:45 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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Byron York / The Corner:
Mickey Kantor Does Not Hold the People of Indiana in the Highest Esteem
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:   Pennebaker: Clip Doctored
Michelle Malkin:
Hillary advisor Mickey Kantor dissed Indiana voters in 1992; Update: Cantor's mad
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Bang the Drum
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Clinton operative called Indianans “white n*****s” …
Discussion: TownHall Blog and Right Angles
Zogby:
Zogby Poll: Obama Holds Big Lead Over Clinton in NC; Pair tied in Indiana  —  UTICA, New York—Five days before the important Democratic presidential primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, Barack Obama of Illinois enjoys a substantial lead in one state and remains tied with Hillary Clinton …
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New York Times:
Clinton May Be Hopeful, but Obama Rolls On  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Have Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination improved as Senator Barack Obama has struggled through his toughest month of this campaign?  —  After weeks in which her candidacy …
American Research Group:
Preference by party:  —  North Carolina  —  About this Survey -  —  Survey Sponsor: American Research Group, Inc.  —  The American Research Group has been conducting surveys of voters since 1985.  —  Sample Size: 600 completed telephone interviews among a random sample …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Will black voters stay home if Obama loses nomination?
Discussion: Hot Air
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Black-Issues Group: Price To Pay If Clinton Wins Through Superdelegates
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Swamp
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Party of Denial  —  During Barack Obama's Sunday appearance on Fox News, the interviewer asked him for an example of “a hot-button issue where you would be willing to buck the Democratic Party line” and say that Republicans have the better idea.  —  Mr. Obama's answer was puzzling …
Discussion: Firedoglake, TPMCafe and CNN
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Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Scramble for Indiana
Discussion: Salon, MSNBC and The Page
Indianapolis Star:
Endorsements chip away at Bayh pedestal
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:   Small donors increase impact
Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:
Obama, Clinton supporters dig in
Indianapolis Star:
Experience makes Clinton better choice in primary  —  In this extraordinary election year, Indiana's Democratic voters have been presented with an extraordinary opportunity: Choose for their party's presidential nominee between a gifted senator from Illinois who has enthused millions of new voters …
Daniel Whitten / Bloomberg:
Obama May Levy $15 Billion Tax on Oil Company Profit  —  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at last year's profit levels, a campaign adviser said.  —  The plan would target profit …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Fox trumps Netroots; bloggers rebel  —  The nation's top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers.  —  The detente with Fox has provoked a backlash from progressive bloggers …
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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash
CNN:
Clinton to Congress: You're either with us or against us  —  JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana (CNN) - After several days of back and forth between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over whether a summer-long elimination of the gas tax would help or hurt, Clinton took a hard line, asking her colleagues in Congress to take sides.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
U.S. Sheds Fewer Jobs Than Expected  —  Many Americans earned less in April, the government said on Friday, as the economy shed 20,000 jobs, the fourth consecutive month of decline.  The drop in payrolls was less severe than expected, but businesses and employees continued to feel the effects of a widespread downturn.
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Howard Schneider / Washington Post:
Employers Cut Fewer Jobs Than Expected
Bill Vlasic / New York Times:
As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Are Flocking to Small Cars  —  DETROIT — Soaring gas prices have turned the steady migration by Americans to smaller cars into a stampede.  —  In what industry analysts are calling a first, about one in five vehicles sold in the United States was a compact …
Mara H. Gottfried / TwinCities.com:
Homeowner said ‘do not move.’ Burglar was in no spot to argue.  —  St. Paul man's gun goes off as he foils a home invasion  —  The security alarm sounded in Jon Sokol's St. Paul home early Wednesday while he and his wife were asleep.  —  He looked up the stairs from their lower-level bedroom …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Power Line
Pablo Guzman / WCBS-TV:
On YOUR Dime: Congressmen Lease Luxury Cars  —  Little-Known But Exploited Loophole Allows Politicians To Drive, Maintain Expensive Cars, SUVs On Taxpayer Money  —  Rep. Charles Rangel: ‘My Constituents Appreciate It’  —  NEW YORK (CBS) ― You may not realize it …
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.
Discussion: Redstate
Ari B. Bloomekatz / Los Angeles Times:
Teacher fired for refusing to sign loyalty oath  —  Cal State system ousts another instructor who objects on religious grounds to a pledge adopted by California in 1952 to root out communists.  —  » Discuss Article When Wendy Gonaver was offered a job teaching American studies …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
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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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
UNIVERSAL PRE-K.  —  Responding to the poor performance …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David Jackson / USA Today:
McCain swings outreach to right
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Voting Rights Are Too Important to Leave to the States
Discussion: TPMCafe
San Francisco Chronicle:
The plague of Potomac Fever
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic Online:
Mr. Conservative  —  Alert Washingtonians were treated …
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The ‘Race’ Speech Revisited
 

 
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