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9:50 AM ET, May 2, 2008

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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 …
CNN:
Clinton to Congress: You're either with us or against us
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Will black voters stay home if Obama loses nomination?
Discussion: Indianapolis Star and Hot Air
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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Gateway Pundit:
Dem Operative Asks McCain If He Called His Wife a C*nt ...Update …
Discussion: TownHall Blog
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 …
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 …
Discussion: QandO, TigerHawk and PoliGazette
Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Scramble for Indiana  —  In Open Primary,Republican Voters  —  Could Decide Victor  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Determining the victor in Tuesday's presidential nominating contest in Indiana could very well be left to that most elusive of Democratic primary voter: the Republican.
Discussion: MSNBC and The Page
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Party of Denial  —  During Barack Obama's Sunday appearance …
Discussion: Firedoglake, CNN and The Confluence
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash  —  In an election year marked by jaw-dropping Democratic fundraising, one key political player isn't so flush: The Democratic National Committee.  —  Despite record hauls by Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the DNC has raised less than half …
Discussion: The Caucus and Hot Air
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Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:   Barack Obama is the choice of free-agent donors
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The ‘Race’ Speech Revisited  —  Guess it's time to disown Granny, if Obama's famous Philadelphia “race” speech is to be believed.  Of course, the speech was not just believed.  It was hailed, celebrated, canonized as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
AL FRANKEN: THE COVER-UP BEGINS  —  We've covered the tax and legal compliance problems of Minnesota Democratic Senatorial candidate Al Franken over the past few weeks.  First came the revealation of his failure to pay workers' compensation insurance in New York.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:   Tax guy mum; DFLers backing Franken
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 …
Adam Zagorin / Time:
D.C. Madam: Suicide Before Prison  —  Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the “D.C. Madam,” once implied that suicide was cowardice but, in the end, she seems to have chosen that same path herself.  “She wasn't going to jail, she told me that very clearly.  She told me she would commit suicide …
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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 …
Washington Times:
McCain sets sights on moderates  —  Faced with a crumbling Republican Party image, Sen. John McCain is gambling on a general-election strategy that relies on winning over conservative Democrats and independents, breaking with President Bush's 2000 and 2004 game plan of focusing on the party's core voters.
Discussion: MSNBC
Economist:
On the brink  —  Some of America's most venerable newspapers face extinction, unless they evolve  —  THE New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry's deep malaise.  The Grey Lady's circulation is tumbling …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Guardian:
Brown admits election mauling was a ‘bad night’  —  Gordon Brown today acknowledged a “bad night” for Labour after the party's national share of the vote plummeted to 24% - its lowest level since the 1960s - in his first electoral test as prime minister.  —  With about two thirds …
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited and AMERICAblog
Ross Douthat / The Atlantic Online:
The Return of the Paranoid Style  —  Less than two weeks before the United States and its allies invaded Iraq, in March of 2003, Sony Pictures released a war movie called Tears of the Sun.  The director was Antoine Fuqua, fresh off the success of 2001's Training Day; the star was Bruce Willis …
Discussion: protein wisdom
 
 
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Will Voters Accept Obama's Gas Plea?
Robert King / Indianapolis Star:
25 black ministers hope to generate Obama vote
Discussion: The Page
WNCN-TV:
NORTH CAROLINA POLL RESULTS - MAY 2008
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
UK troops to stay in Basra ‘for the long term’
Discussion: Hot Air and The Strata-Sphere
Theodore Frank / New York Sun:
Blame Port Authority
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
New York Times:
For Europe's Middle-Class, Stagnant Wages Stunt Lifestyle
John Gizzi / Human Events:
McCain Veepstakes: Running with Ryan?
Discussion: The American Mind
Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
Minister: Muslim decree to condemn bombings
Discussion: Hot Air and Jihad Watch
 Earlier Items: 
Inal Ersan / Reuters:
Ex-Guantanamo inmate in Iraq suicide bombing: TV
Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
Barbara Walters reveals past affair with US senator
Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE INCOHERENCE OF NANCY PELOSI
Azi Paybarah / New York Observer:
Bloomberg: Clinton-McCain Gas Tax Break Is the ‘Dumbest Thing’
Amanda / Think Progress:
Washington Post Editorial Board Attempts To Erase Its Pre-War Rush To Invasion
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
What The Old Farts Don't Get  —  A reader writes:
The Raw Story:
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Discussion: Unfogged and At-Largely
Peter Dreier / The Huffington Post:
Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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