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Alec MacGillis / The Trail:
Gary Mayor Predicts Possible Indiana Shocker — As the fate of a nailbiter Indiana primary — and possibly the course of the Democratic race — hung on his city, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said just now that it might take a while yet to finish counting the vote in Lake County, which includes Gary …
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Marc Ambinder:
First Glance At The Exits: Democratic Party Cracking Up? — Here's what jumps out at me from the first wave of exit polls that have been released to the Edison-Mitsofky consortium: — Forget the horse race numbers for a moment: if the surveys are accurate, the polarization within the Democratic Party has reached critical levels.
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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
What happened in Ind. and N.C. — The contests in Indiana and North Carolina continued long demographic trends that are proving to be destiny in the 2008 Democratic primaries. — According to exit polls, a third of North Carolina voters were black — and with the support of more than nine …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Hillary and Bill Clinton in defeat and victory: When pictures tell the story — Just look at his face! — Doesn't William Jefferson Clinton look absolutely delighted with his wife's Democratic presidential primary victory in Indiana? — Sure the Clinton campaign (Hillary's) had hoped to do much better in North Carolina.
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Dylan Loewe / The Huffington Post:
Obama's Coming. Clear the Way.
Obama's Coming. Clear the Way.
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The New Republic:
Measuring the Limbaugh Effect
Measuring the Limbaugh Effect
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Russert: Clinton cancels morning show appearances — Tim Russert, a colleague reports, just said that Hillary Clinton canceled her scheduled appearances on the morning shows tomorrow. — It's a sign of weakness she can ill afford at a moment when questions about whether she can continue are mounting.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HMMM — NBC just reported that Hillary Clinton is holding no public events tomorrow. We'd earlier reported that she'd cancelled her morning show appearances. But that's not that surprising. There's not a lot good to talk about. But canceling all public appearances, if that's what they're saying, is a different story.
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Todd Beeton / MyDD:
The Tie Has Been Broken — Yep, I'm still up. Sorry it's taken me so long to weigh in with a sort of post-mortem on tonight, this has taken me longer to compose than I had expected and I now realize I should have put an overnight thread up. I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts - Todd
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Hillary Reportedly Will Hold No Public Events Tomorrow
Hillary Reportedly Will Hold No Public Events Tomorrow
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
GOP leaders warn of election disaster — Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party's message isn't good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC's money. — The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
News Analysis: For Clinton, Options Seem to Dwindle — She was unable to build her base of support much beyond the white, working-class voters who have sustained her.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Clinton pushes new math — The campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) has begun urging party officials and news organizations to include the disputed Florida and Michigan delegations when figuring the number of delegates needed to win the nomination. — That unorthodox approach could put …
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David Neiwert / Firedoglake:
Primary Late Night: Did We Hear Hillary Concede Tonight? — Indiana (88% reporting): — North Carolina (97% reporting): — I know, I know. Hillary's victory speech in Indiana tonight was not a concession speech. She vowed to keep fighting on. Florida and Michigan and all that.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
A Phony ‘War on Science’ — There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.” — According to Hillary Clinton, the Bush administration has declared “open season on open inquiry.”
Sam Graham-Felsen / my.barackobama.com:
Obama's Remarks in Raleigh, North Carolina — Barack Obama delivered the following remarks (as prepared) in Raleigh, North Carolina, tonight... You know, some were saying that North Carolina would be a game-changer in this election. But today, what North Carolina decided is that the only game …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Reformers Who Ruined Politics — Nearly halfway to choosing the next President, voters are witnessing an amazing spectacle in addition to the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton scrum. All three of the contenders are avowed believers in ever more restrictive and convoluted campaign finance laws.
Krooney / The Page:
BUNCHES OF SUPERS — George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America”: “More superdelegates will come out today for Barack Obama -they will come three, four, five at a time, and this nomination will be locked up.”
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Black Voters Did It — Here's what now seems obvious: African-American voters killed the Clinton candidacy. It is a fitting end to the Clintons' campaign and an almost Shakespearean coda to their career. The Clintons were exposed in their long-running exploitation and reliance on minority votes.