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Suddenly, North Carolina Is Facing Tighter Race — RALEIGH, N.C. — Just days before the North Carolina primary, the Democratic presidential contest in this state is suddenly alive with a fresh air of competition, as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks to capitalize on a controversy …
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The Caucus, Taylor Marsh, The Swamp, American Street, Riehl World View, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, marbury, The Page and TBogg
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Obama leads Clinton in Guam caucuses — (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. Hillary Clinton in Guam's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday, with votes from the largest of the island's 19 villages still to be counted, according to a Guam election official.
CNN:
Obama edges Clinton in island squeaker — (CNN) — Barack Obama has won the Guam Democratic caucuses by a margin of 7 votes. — With all of Guam's precincts reporting, Obama won 2,264 votes (50.1 percent) to 2,257 votes (49.9 percent) for Hillary Clinton, his sole remaining rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Michael James / Political Punch:Stumping for Delegates, Clinton Pledges Voting Rights to Guam
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Balloon Juice, Liberty Street, The Carpetbagger Report, Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, Don Surber and Liberal Values
Charles Blow / New York Times:
A Blacklash? — Since January, the Clintons have pummeled Barack Obama with racially tinged comments and questions about his character. — Hillary Clinton has questioned why he didn't walk out on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.; why he “denounced” but didn't “reject” Louis Farrakhan …
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Al Giordano / The Huffington Post:
Operation Anti-Chaos: The Narrative on “White Voters” Is Fiction — I turn on the TV, read the political columnists (and a significant number of analytically-challenged bloggers, too) and all I hear is a bunch of white folk prattling on about their favorite narrative: “Obama's losing white voters!”
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Sam Wood / Philly.com:
Is this man John McCain's worst nightmare? — Bob Barr, former GOP congressman from Georgia, is an all-but-announced presidential candidate - as a Libertarian. — The possibility of a run by Barr has sent shudders through the mainstream of the Republican party.
CNN:
Paul: Not ready to endorse McCain, likes Obama's foreign policy — (CNN) — Even though Rep. Ron Paul has never officially ended his long shot presidential bid, he's ready to weigh in on the three remaining major candidates for the White House. — In an interview on The Situation Room …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation — (updated below) — Long-time war cheerleader Fred Hiatt of The Washignton Post has a truly incoherent Editorial this morning in which he cites the problems he says are created by air strikes of the type the U.S. just carried …
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The Impolitic
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Glenn Greenwald / Firedoglake:
Arianna Huffington's Right is Wrong — Arianna Huffington's latest book — Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe — thoroughly documents the most influential fact in our political life: namely, that the right-wing faction …
MomLogic:
Hillary's Teen Troubles — Part 4: Hillary can relate when it comes to the drama of teen dating. — The senator running for prez reveals the benefit of the secret service going on daughter Chelsea's dates. — For more from momlogic's Hillary Clinton town hall exclusive, click on one of the videos below.
Bill Ardolino / The Long War Journal:
Iraqis begin to “despise” the Mahdi Army in Baghdad's Rusafa district — 2nd Lieutenant Mike Hebert leads White Platoon of the Blackfoot Troop, 3-89 Cavalry on a presence patrol of a difficult neighborhood in southern Rusafa District, Baghdad. Photo by Bill Ardolino.
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Dean's World
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Wright Postmortem — Why the Obama Pass? — I think we have sort of reached an impasse on Rev. Wright. Most Americans, I think, accept the following realties. Obama, by what he wrote in his memoirs, by what he said when he spoke in his early campaign speeches, by his frequent praise of Wright …
Ken Ringle / Weekly Standard:
A Hero's Life — Remembering John McCain's teacher. — Much has been written about John McCain's presidential campaign, about his conservative ideology (or insufficient supply thereof), about his age, his military service, and his remarkable life story. Most of what's been written …
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Colorful Tory Beats Laborite to Become Mayor of London — LONDON — Boris Johnson, the floppy-haired media celebrity and Conservative member of Parliament who transformed himself from a shambling, amusing-aphorism-uttering figure of fun into a plausible political force, was elected mayor of London on Friday.
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Benedict Brogan / Daily Mail:Boris has last laugh after routing Red Ken to complete Gordon Brown's day of misery
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