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10:00 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 …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Will black voters stay home if Obama loses nomination?  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Many black voters are making it very clear: They're concerned that Barack Obama is going to be denied the Democratic presidential nomination that they see as rightfully his, and if that happens, a lot of them may stay home in November.
Discussion: Indianapolis Star and Hot Air
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Black-Issues Group: Price To Pay If Clinton Wins Through Superdelegates  —  One of the nation's largest Black American grassroots advocacy organizations is drawing a line in the sand for Democratic leadership: if Hillary Clinton is awarded the nomination by overturning the pledged delegate count there will be a political price to pay.
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Swamp
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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Gateway Pundit:
Dem Operative Asks McCain If He Called His Wife a C*nt ...Update …
Discussion: TownHall Blog
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, CNN and The Confluence
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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
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
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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Robert King / Indianapolis Star:
25 black ministers hope to generate Obama vote
Discussion: The Page
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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.
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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The Corner:
Clinton vs. Obama
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Peter Overby / NPR:
Group with Clinton Ties Behind Dubious Robocalls
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Cameraman Is Released From Guantánamo
Discussion: Attackerman
Michael Dobbs / Washington Post:
McCain's Birth Abroad Stirs Legal Debate
Discussion: Fact Checker and Hot Air
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Will Voters Accept Obama's Gas Plea?
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
 Earlier Items: 
Ross Douthat / The Atlantic Online:
The Return of the Paranoid Style
Discussion: protein wisdom
Economist:
On the brink  —  Some of America's most venerable newspapers …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Guardian:
Brown admits election mauling was a ‘bad night’
Inal Ersan / Reuters:
Ex-Guantanamo inmate in Iraq suicide bombing: TV
Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE INCOHERENCE OF NANCY PELOSI
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
 

 
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