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Clinton (47%) Overtakes Obama (40%) Nationally On Eve of Indiana And North Carolina Primaries — Poll Shows Clinton Campaign Picking Up Steam With Democrats Nationally … Washington, DC - The latest Ipsos poll conducted over the weekend shows that on the eve of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries …
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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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New InsiderAdvantage Survey — Obama Inching Closer in Indiana — Hillary Clinton is like one of those blow-up punching bags that keep popping back up when you slug them. For her to pop up and then pop back with a punch of her own, she must at least win Tuesday's Indiana primary.
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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 …
Marie Horrigan / CQ Politics:CQ Politics Forecasts a Slim Obama Victory in N.C. Delegates
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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.
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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 …
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Yuval Levin / The Corner:
Jindal for VP? — Kathryn, Ramesh, and Ross Douthat are all cold to the notion of McCain putting Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal on the ticket. I think I disagree. — Why are they opposed really? Ramesh says Jindal isn't experienced enough. It's true, he's been governor for only a very short time …
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
John & Elizabeth Edwards: What We Like (and Dislike) About Clinton & Obama — Elizabeth Edwards likes Hillary Clinton's plan for universal health insurance. Husband John Edwards doesn't much care for Clinton's “old politics.” — So goes the his-and-her debate in the Edwards household …
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 …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton: OPEC ‘can no longer be a cartel’ — Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. — “We're going to go right at OPEC,” she said.
Paul Krugman:
Is Obama misrepresenting what I said? — I don't have a link to the ad itself, but apparently there's an Obama ad citing something I said about McCain's gas tax holiday as a way to attack Hillary Clinton. — I did not say that the Clinton proposal would increase oil industry profits.
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 …
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Bill Clinton Goes After TNR Alum! — Since Hillary Clinton is now the anti-intellectual candidate, it is not entirely surprising that her husband has taken up a similar pointy-heads-hate-regular-folks line. Apprently, though, the elites are now so invested in tearing down the Clintons that they are …
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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 …
Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:
It's the Adultery, Stupid — The private follies of middle-aged male politicians are treated as weakness, perversion, corruption—anything but the real issue: human desire. The author, currently writing a book on Rupert Murdoch, offers an immodest proposal. — Politics is now about sex.
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