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Tim Shipman / Associated Press:
Michelle Obama: Barack has hit boiling point — Barack Obama is struggling to contain his anger and frustration over the constant barrage of questions about his character and judgment, his wife has revealed. — Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate …
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Zogby:
Zogby Poll: Obama Holding Lead in NC; Race Still Deadlocked in Indiana — UTICA, New York - Democrat Barack Obama of Illinois holds a nine point lead in North Carolina, and has now edged ahead of Hillary Clinton of New York by a statistically insignificant two points in Indiana, a pair of new Zogby daily tracking telephone polls show.
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Don Surber:
Impatient — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama: Come on, people. Coronate me already. — Come on, people. — Move along. — Obama doesn't have all day, his wife told the London Daily Telegraph. — Her husband is telling himself: “I can't let my ego, my anger, my frustration get in the way of the ultimate goal,” she said.
Allison Samuels / Newsweek:
Something Wasn't Wright — Why Oprah Winfrey left Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church. — For any spiritually minded, up-wardly mobile African-American living in Chicago in the mid-1980s, the Trinity United Church of Christ was—and still is—the place to be. That's what drew Oprah Winfrey …
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New York Post:
BARACK'S REV. ‘STOLE A WIFE’ — EX-HUBBY: HE COUNSELED US, THEN WED HER — By SUSANNAH CAHALAN and VERONICA HINKE in Chicago and BRAD HAMILTON in New York — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The All-White Elephant in the Room — BORED by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, go directly to YouTube, search for “John Hagee Roman Church Hitler,” and be recharged by a fresh jolt of clerical jive. — What you'll find is a white televangelist, the Rev. John Hagee …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
La. Democrat Wins In GOP Stronghold — Strategy to Link Victor to Obama Falls Short — A Louisiana Democrat captured a House seat held by Republicans for the previous 33 years, defeating a former GOP state legislator yesterday in a special election that Republicans tried to turn into a referendum on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Democrat Wins La. Special Election
Democrat Wins La. Special Election
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Doug Simpson / Associated Press:
Cazayoux wins 6th District seat in Congress
Cazayoux wins 6th District seat in Congress
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Swing State Project
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Clinton On ABC's “This Week”: Awkward For Stephanopoulos — It sounds as if this morning's special Town Meeting format “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC could give ABC's — and Stephanopoulos' — critics ammunition to say he and his network gave Senator Hillary Clinton an hour of largely softball interview airtime.
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Mike Allen / Associated Press:
Guam by seven, J-Mart on the age issue, Perino in Pueblo, Townsend to CNN — BREAKING NEWS: RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the year-end goal of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is still achievable. — Good Sunday morning. Hope Den 2 is having a chigger-free campout.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton mailing attacks Obama on guns — Hillary Clinton has re-opened her sharp attack on Barack Obama's position on guns, with a mailer in Indiana that seeks to raise questions about him with both supporters and opponents of gun rights. — The mailing — perhaps the sharpest-edged …
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New York Times:
Missing Records — Senator John McCain is 71 years old, a survivor of an aggressive form of skin cancer. If elected, he would be the oldest man to become president. — These factors are not disqualifying, but they impose on Mr. McCain a larger duty than usual to provide detailed, timely disclosure about his health.
Charlotte Observer:
Time for a change — In the Democratic primary, we recommend Obama — Do the Democrats need a restoration of the past, or is it time for a change? We think it's time for a change. We recommend a vote for Barack Obama in Tuesday's primary. — The choice between Sen. Obama and Hillary Clinton is not easy.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
This Bud's for You — Barack Obama is going to get down if it kills him. — Bleeding white voters in North Carolina and Indiana, the Illinois senator headed Thursday evening to V.F.W. Post 1954 in North Liberty, Ind., consisting of a bar, a pool table, a Coors Light clock and a couple of dozen curious white guys.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Too Solemn for Her Generation? — The YouTube clip is hard to hear at first, but thankfully, the main character is clutching a microphone. In the 90-second video entitled “Madison audience Defend Chelsea Clinton,” a crowd member asserts that the former first daughter's phone calls …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Partisan Trends — Election 2008 Creating Record Number of Democrats — The ongoing race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination may be causing angst for party leaders, but the competition has been good for the Party label. In fact, the Democrats now have the largest partisan advantage …
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