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Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too — ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton's support among superdelegates, according to the ABC News delegate estimate. — Sen. Obama, D-Ill., picked up two superdelegates …
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Obama wins endorsement of government employees union — WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Federation of Government Employees endorsed Barack Obama Friday, giving the Illinois senator fresh momentum toward capturing the Democratic nomination for president. — “Our people, I think …
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The Politico, Associated Press, The Page, Spin Cycle, Liberal Values, Politicker MD, Donklephant and 2008 Democratic …
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Thinking About November — The fight for the Democratic nomination seems to be winding down. It's not completely over, but the odds now overwhelmingly favor Barack Obama. — Assuming that Mr. Obama is the nominee, he'll lead a party that, judging by the usual indicators …
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Gallup Daily: Obama Not Yet Pulling Away — Democratic nomination preferences remain evenly divided — PRINCETON, NJ — According to Gallup Poll Daily tracking, Democratic voters remain closely divided in their presidential nomination preferences, with 48% favoring Barack Obama and 46% backing Hillary Clinton.
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Sen. Clinton and the Campaign — There is a lot of talk that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now fated to lose the Democratic nomination and should pull out of the race. We believe it is her right to stay in the fight and challenge Senator Barack Obama as long as she has the desire and the means to do so.
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Congressman Payne, NJ superdelegate, switches from Clinton to Obama
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Rahm Emanuel: Obama Is Our Presumptive Nominee — One of the most influential (and thus far subdued) voices in the Democratic primary all but declared the contest over on Friday morning. — “At this point, Barack is the presumptive nominee,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel during the New Yorker's magazine conference.
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Damsel of Distress — This is an amazing story. The Democratic Party has a winner. It has a nominee. You know this because he has the most votes and the most elected delegates, and there's no way, mathematically, his opponent can get past him. Even after the worst two weeks of his campaign …
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American Street, MSNBC, Ed Driscoll.com, Too Sense, Connecting.the.Dots and BuzzFlash.org
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Killing by the numbers — In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq? — Genei Nesir Khudair al-Janabi, an Iraqi vegetable farmer, walked down to the ramshackle pump house along the banks of the Euphrates.
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John McCain called out by Jed Bartlet's aides — JERSEY CITY, N.J. — It turns out that hobnobbing with liberal blogger Arianna Huffington and the cast of NBC's “The West Wing” on the left coast can be a risky proposition for a Republican with White House ambitions.
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Come On, You Call This a Manifesto? — In 1974 a committee of evangelical Christians, headed by Billy Graham, convened an “International Congress on World Evangelization” in Lausanne, Switzerland. Graham and other evangelical leaders felt that the whole evangelical movement …
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Eunomia
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THE MANIFESTO THAT ISN'T — I have a brief essay in the Wall …
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The American Conservative
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Republicans vote against Mother's Day. — On Wednesday, the House took up the seemingly uncontroversial H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day.” The resolution initially passed 412 to 0, until Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) rose in protest:
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Obama's Faulty Tax Argument — As the presidential campaign heats up, a key issue is whether to extend the 2001 and 2003 income tax cuts, which expire in 2011. John McCain wants to make the tax cuts permanent. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to let the rates rise.
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Obama Needs a History Lesson — In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon. — In defending his stated intent to meet with America's enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said:
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IRAN'S WEAPONS....Tina Susman of the LA Times reports that Iranian involvement in Iraq's civil war may not be everything it's been cracked up to be: … This item only showed up on the LAT's Iraq blog, not in a regular news piece. If it weren't for the blog, I wonder if we ever would have heard of this?
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The Conservative Revival — For years, American and British politics were in sync. Reagan came in roughly the same time as Thatcher, and Clinton's Third Way approach mirrored Blair's. But the British conservatives never had a Gingrich revolution in the 1990s or the Bush victories thereafter.
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Interview of the Vice President by Paul Gallow, the Paul Gallow Show, Mississippi — Q Good morning, Mr. Vice President. How are you, sir? — THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good morning, Paul. How are you? — Q I'm fine. It's the second appearance on the program, and I thank you so very much.
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You want radical? You got it — Supreme Court justices take an oath promising to “faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties . . . of the Supreme Court of the United States under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.”
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Did Edwards Tip His Hand? — Former presidential candidate appears on MSNBC, refuses to reveal who he voted for on Tuesday. — But says in passing- “I just voted for him on Tuesday.” Or was it “just voted for 'em?” Or something else? … Also says there's “a great likelihood” …
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The Caucus, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Raw Story, The Impolitic and The Washington Independent