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Drudge Report:
DANGER DAY: HILLARY FACES ‘15-POINT DEFEAT’ IN NC; SEES INDIANA WIN — Hillary Clinton's inner circle now fears a stinging defeat is likely in North Carolina. — “Look, we worked hard and gave it our best shot, but the demographics, well, they are what they are,” a top campaign source explained …
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Zogby:
Zogby Poll: Obama Expands Lead in NC; Dems Still Biting Nails in Indiana! — Obama enjoys a strong final day of polling before the elections — UTICA, New York—On the strength of good polling numbers on the final day before the primary elections in Indiana and North Carolina …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: BEGINNING OF THE END? — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro — *** The beginning of the end? Is today the last day on the campaign trail? Sure, there are six more contests beyond these two in Indiana and North Carolina.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
ZOGBY DOUBLES DOWN — According to Zogby, Obama is expanding his lead (51%-37%) in North Carolina and may even be jumping ahead in Indiana. His number for today in Indiana is Obama leading 45%-43%. But he says that Monday night's single total actually had him beating Clinton 47%-41% …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Eight Questions About Today's Primaries — Has Obama put the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy behind him? — 1. Barack Obama dealt forcefully with the issue last Tuesday, breaking with his former pastor and denouncing his words in strong language. Many Democrats think he's done the best …
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Indianapolis Star:
‘Hardcore’ Republicans voting Democrat — 10:51 AM — ‘Hardcore’ Republicans voting Democrat — The two precincts at Broad Ripple Family Center selected Republican Jon Elrod over Democrat Andre Carson in March's special election for U.S. Congress. But by 9 a.m., just 21 voters …
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John R. Wilke / Wall Street Journal:
FBI Agents Raid Work, Home Of Special Counsel's Bloch — WASHINGTON — Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided the Office of Special Counsel here, seizing computers and documents belonging to the agency chief Scott Bloch and staff. — More than a dozen FBI agents served grand jury subpoenas shortly …
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Ari Shapiro / NPR:
FBI Searches Office of Special Counsel Building — Listen: Ari Shapiro Discusses the Raid on ‘Day to Day’ — · FBI agents on Tuesday raided the offices of Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch, who oversees protection for federal whistleblowers. The agents seized computers and shut …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Most Democrats Not Eager for Either Candidate to Drop Out — Seven in 10 want superdelegates to commit before the August convention — PRINCETON, NJ — Heading into Tuesday's important North Carolina and Indiana presidential primaries, 6 in 10 Democrats say Hillary Clinton and Barack …
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Paul Krugman:
Gas tax hysterics — OK, this has gone overboard. — Hillary Clinton's proposed gas tax holiday is not, in my view, a good idea. But the furor over what is, when all is said and done, a small and temporary policy proposal is entirely disproportionate. What's going on?
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George Frost / Salon:
Obama is wrong about the gas tax
Obama is wrong about the gas tax
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Confederate Yankee:
Calling It: Obama Wins N.C. — I just got off the phone with Mike Ash, Director of the Durham County Board of Elections in Durham, NC. He doesn't have any numbers as far as percentages of eligible voters making it to the polls at this point, but said several polling locations have already hit record numbers.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Combat and Composure — Life is short, but campaigns are long. And during the course of them, each candidate will have impressive and pathetic moments. But underlying the highs and lows, there are the fundamentals. The fundamentals of the Obama-Clinton race were on display Sunday morning.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
It's About Nothing — Dispatches from the twilight of a presidency: — 7:13 a.m.: The South Lawn. President Bush, determined to dispel doubts about his relevance, grants an early-morning interview to Robin Roberts of ABC News's “Good Morning America.” Joined by the first lady …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Pins and Panders — Obama Wears His Independence on His Lapel — Sometimes I think the best thing about Barack Obama is that little empty space on his lapel. It is where other politicians wear the American flag pin, a kitschy piece of empty symbolism that tells you nothing …
Human Events:
Two GOP Losses That Validate a National Pattern — These two special elections validate a national polling pattern that is bad news for Republicans. According to a New York Times/CBS Poll, Americans disapprove of the President's job performance by 63 to 28 (and he has been below 40% job …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
MICHELLE OBAMA'S GOSPEL OF BITTERNESS — This past Friday Michelle Obama gave essentially the same stump speech in Charlotte, North Carolina that she had given the week earlier in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Based on the stump speech, Yuval Levin calls Mrs. Obama “The unhappiest millionaire.”