Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:00 PM ET, May 2, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and MyDD
RELATED:
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
Discussion: The Swamp and Political Machine
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Will black voters stay home if Obama loses nomination?
Discussion: Hot Air
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Clinton presses congressional Dems on gas-tax holiday
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Black-Issues Group: Price To Pay If Clinton Wins Through Superdelegates
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Swamp
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 …
RELATED:
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Democrats and Fox News Make Friends
Discussion: FishBowlDC, Gawker and Brendan Nyhan
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 and CNN
RELATED:
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: Salon, MSNBC and The Page
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:   Small donors increase impact
Indianapolis Star:
Endorsements chip away at Bayh pedestal
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 …
Alison Fitzgerald / Bloomberg:
Clinton, McCain Push Gas Tax Break That May Help Oil Companies  —  Hillary Clinton and John McCain are both pushing a “gas-tax holiday” to give consumers an 18.4- cent-a-gallon price break.  Clinton says the plan will take excess profits from oil companies.  McCain says it will help families buy school supplies.
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion: TownHall Blog and Raw Story
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
RELATED:
Doug Kmiec / Convictions:
Barack Obama Needs the Wright Stuff To Win—Don't Disown, Embrace Him!
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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 …
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.
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
Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
Fed to Pursue Aggressive Checks on Credit Cards  —  The Federal Reserve and two other banking regulators are set to unveil today one of the most aggressive efforts in decades to crack down on the credit card industry, prohibiting practices such as arbitrarily raising interest rates on outstanding balances.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:00 PM ET, May 2, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
San Francisco Chronicle:
The plague of Potomac Fever
Michelle Malkin:
Voter suppression on the Left
John Holusha / New York Times:
Dockworkers Protest Iraq War
Discussion: Think Progress
Mara H. Gottfried / TwinCities.com:
Homeowner said ‘do not move.’ Burglar was in no spot to argue.
Discussion: Power Line
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic Online:
Mr. Conservative  —  Alert Washingtonians were treated …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Stephanie Simon / Wall Street Journal:
Evolution's Critics Shift Tactics With Schools
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Perils Of Patronizing  —  In the past few weeks …
Discussion: The Corner
The Corner:
Clinton vs. Obama
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
 Earlier Items: 
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
WNCN-TV:
NORTH CAROLINA POLL RESULTS - MAY 2008
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
AL FRANKEN: THE COVER-UP BEGINS
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’
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
A UK CMA report finds that Apple's policies hold back innovation in mobile browsers and recommends investigating Apple and Google's mobile ecosystem activities

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Threads is testing AI-generated summaries of what users are discussing, in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and Search and Trending Now improvements

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page