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Mark Mooney / Political Radar:
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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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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Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
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.
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
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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David Alire Garcia / New Mexico Independent:
NMI EXCLUSIVE: Count one more superdelegate for Barack Obama — New Mexico Democratic superdelegate Laurie Weahkee announced today she's backing Barack Obama. — SANTA FE — If Sen. Barack Obama needs a mere 170 more delegate votes to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination outright, he just got one vote closer.
Scott Martelle / Top of the Ticket:
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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Salon:
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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Amanda / Think Progress:
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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Greg Veis / The New Republic:
Mark Schmitt on the Unity Ticket — The idea of a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton “unity ticket” has been floated quite a bit the last few days. But, seriously, is the idea any good? We asked a few friends of the magazine to weigh in. Here's Mark Schmitt, senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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Andrew G. Biggs / Wall Street Journal:
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.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
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?
Krooney / The Page:
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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Jack Kelly / Real Clear Politics:
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:
David Brooks / New York Times:
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.
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bernie Ward admits to child porn in plea deal — (05-08) 18:49 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Bernie Ward, the most prominent liberal voice on Bay Area talk radio for more than two decades, admitted Thursday to distribution of child pornography by e-mail in a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for at least five years.
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David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
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.”