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11:40 PM ET, May 7, 2008

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Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Ugly truth why Hillary Clinton won't quit  —  While the case for Hillary Clinton to stay in the race is shakier than ever, one ugly reason for staying in could be found Tuesday amid the ruddy, sun-kissed Hoosiers who cheered her on to victory at the Indianapolis Speedway.
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Christopher Hitchens / Mirror.co.uk:
Christopher Hitchens on Barack Obama's latest primary victory  —  Of all the slogans that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama might have picked to distinguish themselves from one another, “Prolier Than Thou” was probably the least convincing.  —  Yet in the closing days …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Hillary Chief Strategist: North Carolina Loss Represented Progress Because We Won Among White Voters  —  On the Hillary conference call, Hillary chief strategist Geoff Garin made the case for her electability in some of the most explicitly race-based terms I've heard yet.
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue  —  But Barack Obama's support has narrowed dangerously—and he'll need to make critical changes to beat John McCain.  —  The Democratic primary is over.  Hillary Clinton might still run in West Virginia and Kentucky, which she'll win handily …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Race  —  Let me make it a bit more clear.  There's nothing wrong …
Discussion: First Draft and Night Light
Rob Christensen / Raleigh News & Observer:
Obama, Clinton each pick up superdelegate
Marc Ambinder:
Clinton Begins To Meet With Superdelegates  —  ...right now... at the headquarters of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Discussion: Pam's House Blend and Salon
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Marc Ambinder:
Clinton's Next Moves  —  As Hillary Clinton ponders her next move, she is finding that there is consensus within her inner-most circle about whether to stay in the race — the answer is yes — but no consensus about why, and for how long.  —  “A lot of us have been at this a long time …
New York Times:
Support for Clinton Wanes as Obama Sees Finish Line
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Manu Raju / The Hill:
Feinstein to ask Clinton for her primary game plan  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) most prominent Senate supporters, said Wednesday that she will ask the former first lady to detail her plans for the rest of the Democratic primary.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama victory call: Obama's strength, and Limbaugh's  —  David Plouffe and a series of big gun endorsers are holding a conference call to stress the scale of last night's victory.  —  “He clearly did more than he had to and she did not achieve what she had to,” said Senator John Kerry.
Discussion: Don Surber, The Page, Hot Air and Trailhead
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Lawrence O'Donnell / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Will Drop Out by June 15  —  A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15.  He could not bring himself to say the words “Hillary will drop out by June 15,” but that is clearly what he meant.
Marc Ambinder:
7 Reasons Why Clinton Should Stay In The Race**  —  **One is perfectly capable of acknowledging that the identity of the nominee is no longer in dispute and still find that, aside from morbid speculation and existential unknowability, there are reasons for her to postpone any plans for a concession.
Matt / Think Progress:
Kirchick gets his facts wrong on the ‘reality-based community.’  —  In a Politico op-ed yesterday, Jamie Kirchick accused liberals of embracing “religious extremism.”  Kirchick opened his argument by attacking the fact that some liberal bloggers call themselves the “reality-based community …
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CNN:
McCain promises to fight ‘evil’ if president  —  (CNN) — Sen. John McCain Wednesday vowed to fight religious prosecution, human trafficking, child pornography and other “evil” if he becomes president.  —  The speech — delivered at Oakland University in Rochester, Minnesota …
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Oliver Willis / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Base Problem
Matthew Yglesias:
The MI/FL Excuse  —  Yesterday, Marc Ambinder reported “Another strategist, Harold Ickes, has told colleagues that he does not believe that she should think about dropping out until, at the very least, the questions of Florida and Michigan are resolved.”  It's worth pointing out that this makes no real sense.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Corrente
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Wisconsin Presidential Election  —  Wisconsin: McCain Leads Both Democrats 47% to 43%  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Wisconsin shows John McCain holding identical leads over both potential democratic candidates.  McCain tops both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama by a 47% to 43% margin.
Discussion: Power Line and FiveThirtyEight.com
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama Beats McCain Among Jewish Voters  —  Trails Clinton by slim margin among Jewish Democrats for the nomination  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama is faring better than might be expected among Jewish voters, beating John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily general-election matchups …
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Gallup:   Gallup Daily: Obama and Clinton Both Tie McCain
Megan McArdle:
Is the middle class really doomed?  —  I've now seen this video at several liberal blogs, and someone has to stop it.  Apparently, that someone is me, since no one else has stepped up.  Mine is a high and lonely destiny.  —  Warren has an intriguing thesis: that women going into the workforce …
Discussion: Dean's World
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
THE DAY IN DELEGATES, SUPER SWITCH  —  From NBC's Domenico Montanaro  —  Obama won a superdelegate switch, the campaign confirms.  AP first reported that Virginia's Jennifer McClellan had switched her support from Clinton to Obama.  —  The day in delegates: Obama 4, Clinton 1
CNN:
Clinton makes case at DNC  —  (CNN) — Hillary Clinton met with Democratic Party officials and undecided members of Congress Tuesday afternoon to make her case for the party's nomination and press for a resolution to seating the delegations of Florida and Michigan.
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Taylor Marsh:
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NOW! Hampshire:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Superdelegates say, we will decide
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