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1:30 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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Pennebaker: Clip Doctored  —  I just spoke to D.A. Pennebaker, the director of “The War Room,” who said his film had been doctored to produce a widely-viewed YouTube clip.  —  In a clip from his film on the 1992 Clinton campaign, posted to YouTube today, Clinton advisor Mickey Kantor is …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and The Daily Dish
Byron York / The Corner:
Mickey Kantor Does Not Hold the People of Indiana in the Highest Esteem  —  I've gotten a bunch of emails with a link to this clip on YouTube, a snippet of a scene from The War Room, the hagiographic documentary on the 1992 Clinton campaign team.  In it, Mickey Kantor, one of the Clintons' oldest friends …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com and Wonkette
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Clinton operative didn't call 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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Indianapolis Star:
Endorsements chip away at Bayh pedestal  —  It's been a rough few days for Sen. Evan Bayh.  —  After years of holding a near death grip over so much of the state's Democratic Party establishment, the junior senator from Shirkieville has taken a series of very public hits in recent days.
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Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Scramble for Indiana
Discussion: Salon, MSNBC and The Page
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Is Ongoing Democratic Campaign Good or Bad for the Party?
Discussion: The Swamp and TPM Election Central
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 …
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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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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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.
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
Discussion: WNCN-TV, Spin Cycle and MyDD
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 …
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 …
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
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
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Cameraman Is Released From Guantánamo  —  A former cameraman for Al Jazeera who was believed to be the only journalist held at Guantánamo Bay was released on Thursday, after more than six years of detention that made him one of the best known Guantánamo detainees in the Arab world, his lawyers said.
Discussion: Attackerman
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias:
Gas Tax Incidence
Discussion: The New Republic
Patrick Condon / Associated Press:
Republican blogger has Al Franken's Senate campaign reeling
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 …
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Michael Dobbs / Washington Post:
McCain's Birth Abroad Stirs Legal Debate
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The ‘Race’ Speech Revisited
 

 
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