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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 …
Southern Political Report:
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Democrats Tied for Record 12th Day
Discussion: American Power and Donklephant
Ariel Alexovich / The Caucus:
Obama Strikes Back With Negative Advertisement
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.
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 …
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 …
Tim Gaynor / Reuters:
McCain woos Hispanics and launches Spanish web site
Discussion: Fox News, Lonewacko and Don Surber
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Fact Hub and Washington Times
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: National Review and Spin Cycle
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Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Bill Clinton Goes After TNR Alum!
Discussion: New York Times and Salon
Blake Fleetwood / The Huffington Post:
Who is “Tough Enough To Make Hard Choices?”  Clinton 70%, McCain 71%, and Obama 58% — CBS/NYT Poll  —  The pollster writes:  —  “Some perceptions of Obama's qualities have shifted in the last few weeks, and he has lost his edge over Clinton on a few past strengths.
Discussion: Bang the Drum, MSNBC and NO QUARTER
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 …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
States Get In on the Calls for a Gas Tax Holiday  —  SLOCOMB, Ala. — Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida has been fighting to cut 10 cents from the state's gasoline tax for two weeks in July.  Lawmakers in Missouri, New York and Texas have also proposed a summer break from state gas taxes …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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