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Sarah Wheaton / New York Times:
Narrow Victory for Obama in the Caucuses in Guam — Senator Barack Obama appeared to win the Democratic caucuses in Guam on Saturday, defeating Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by a seven-vote margin amid unprecedented voter participation there. — When hand-counting finished shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday …
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CNN:
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.
Brett Kelman / Pacific Daily News:
BREAKING NEWS 8:50 a.m. - Obama wins Guam caucus — 8:50 a.m. — When all of the ballots were finally counted — a process that lasted through the night until well after the sun was up — Sen. Barack Obama had the most votes from Guam Democrats in the party's caucus held yesterday.
New York Times:
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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Zzaki / Political Punch:
Hillary's Horse — Tragedy struck the first filly in the Kentucky Derby since 1999, as Eight Belles went down on the track after her second-place finish today, broke two ankles, and was euthanized. — Showing a sisterhood with the female horse, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. …
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Holly In Cincinnati / The Moderate Voice:
Let's Avoid Equine Analogies in Politics — Eschew comparing political horseraces with actual horsy-horseraces: — Not only did an inexperienced stallion named Big Brown just win the Kentucky Derby, but 2nd place went to the filly Eight Belles who collapsed immediately after the race and had to be euthanized.
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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.
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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 …
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 Field:
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!”
Rasmussen Reports:
Oregon Democratic Primary — Oregon: Obama 51% Clinton 39% — The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Oregon Democratic Presidential Primary shows Barack Obama enjoying a twelve-point lead over Hillary Clinton. It's Obama 51%, Clinton 39%. — Clinton has a statistically …
Wesley J. Smith / Weekly Standard:
The Silent Scream of the Asparagus — You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity” of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is being seriously debated.
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 …
aswataliraq.info:
20 wounded, 49 vehicles damaged in U.S. attack on Sadr Hospital — Baghdad - Voices of Iraq — Twenty patients and workers in al-Sadr Hospital were wounded and 49 civilian and ambulance vehicles were damaged when U.S. warplanes opened fire at the hospital on Saturday, a health official said.
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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