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8:55 PM ET, May 5, 2008

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WTVD-TV:
Poll: Obama clings to small lead over Clinton  —  RALEIGH (WTVD) — On the eve of the North Carolina Democratic Primary, with 25% of votes already cast, Barack Obama has no breathing room in his hope to defeat Hillary Clinton in popular votes.  —  According to SurveyUSA's 8th and final tracking poll …
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Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
North Carolina Prediction: Obama by Double Digits  —  In Pennsylvania and Indiana, the previous times that we conducted this exercise, the results from our regression model were closely in line with the composite polling averages in those states.  In North Carolina, however …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Weighting our final NC Poll  —  Our final North Carolina poll will be released within the next few hours.  A big decision for pollsters on this one is how to weight for race.  28% of the Democratic primary electorate in 2000 was black, and in 2004 it was 32%.  But over 40% of early voters were.
Southern Political Report:
InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Survey in North Carolina: Obama 48%; Clinton 45%; —Tied Within Margin of Error  —  An InsiderAdvantage / Majority Opinion Survey conducted for the Southern Political Report shows the Democratic Primary in North Carolina tightening.  The results:  —  Obama: 48%
Discussion: TalkLeft, Zogby, MyDD and Hot Air
Marie Horrigan / CQ Politics:
CQ Politics Forecasts a Slim Obama Victory in N.C. Delegates
Discussion: TalkLeft
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen  —  At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans.  The conversation soon turned to the new president.  “I didn't vote for George Bush” the man confessed.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
THE STATE OF THE RACE.  —  This seems like a big deal.  From The LA Times: … Though Obama seems more embattled than he did a month ago, the math is harder for Clinton to make up with every passing day.  The uncommitted superdelegates are a particular class of superdelegates …
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Wally Edge / Politicker MD:
Cryor, Dugas Glover to endorse Obama  —  State Democratic Party Chairman Michael Cryor and Vice Chairwoman Lauren Dugas Glover, both superdelegates, are endorsing Illinois Senator Barack Obama this afternoon, sources tell PolitickerMD.com.  —  Those close to Cryor have said he has been an Obama supporter …
Ariel Alexovich / The Caucus:
Obama Strikes Back With Negative Advertisement  —  As the campaigning for the Indiana and North Carolina primaries comes to a close, the Democratic presidential candidates are letting loose on one another over the TV airwaves.  —  Just hours after Hillary Rodham Clinton revealed …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Don Surber and The Fix
Ross Douthat:
Don't Do It, Bobby  —  Perhaps the most prescient piece I've ever written (it's a short list) was a column for the Wall Street Journal in June of '06, which urged Barack Obama to run for President - because, I argued, “in presidential politics, it's usually better to run too early than to wait …
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William Kristol / New York Times:
McCain-Jindal?  —  Barack Obama said Friday, “We've had a rough couple of weeks.”
Yuval Levin / The Corner:
Jindal for VP?  —  Kathryn, Ramesh, and Ross Douthat are all cold …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
The Glenn and Helen Show: Fred Thompson on John McCain and Judges  —  With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama still slugging it out in the Democratic primaries, John McCain has already cleared the way to the Republican nomination.  He's spending his time laying out his positions for the general election …
Paul West / Baltimore Sun:
Meet Bill Clinton, man of the people  —  DUNN, N.C. - If Barack Obama wants to connect with white, working-class voters, he could take a lesson from William Jefferson Clinton.  —  The former president has been on tour for months, almost exclusively in small towns and rural county seats …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and Spin Cycle
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Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Bill Clinton Goes After TNR Alum!
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
Byron York / National Review:
Bill Clinton, Right Where He Oughta Be
Discussion: The Corner
Marcia Froelke Coburn / Chicago Magazine:
No Regrets  —  From our August 2001 issue: “Kill your parents!” urged sixties leftist Bill Ayers, whose father was the chairman of Commonwealth Edison here.  In Ayers's new memoir, Fugitive Days, he reconciles his militant past with his present identity: father of three, esteemed professor at UIC …
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Sam Harris / The Huffington Post:
Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks  —  Geert Wilders, conservative Dutch politician and provocateur, has become the latest projectile in the world's most important culture war: the zero-sum conflict between civil society and traditional Islam.  Wilders, who lives under perpetual armed guard due …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Hullabaloo
Avram Goldstein / Bloomberg:
Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths, U.S. Says  —  The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said.  —  Community mental health centers …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Political Punch
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
IS MICHELLE OBAMA RESPONSIBLE FOR THE JEREMIAH WRIGHT FIASCO?  —  So numbed have I become by the endless replay of the fatuous clerical rantings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright that it has taken me this long to remember the significant antecedent.  In 1995, there appeared a documentary titled Brother Minister …
Kurt Andersen / New York Magazine:
About That Crush on Obama  —  If Barack is out of touch with America, then the media must be too.  —  People with the slightest interest in politics, especially journalists, spent 2006 and 2007 smacking their lips and rubbing their hands in anticipation of 2008, relishing the prospect …
 
 
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