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12:10 AM ET, May 20, 2008

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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
As Time Runs Short, Clinton Claims Lead in Popular Vote  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is entering the Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday with one of the most pugnacious political messages of her campaign: That she is ahead in the national popular vote when all votes are counted …
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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Obama Freakout Over Michelle Video: The Ticking “Whitey” Time Bomb  —  Today, on ABC's “Good Morning America,” Barack Obama lost his cool, calling names and making unspecified threats.  Why?  Ostensibly, it's because the Tennessee Republican Party issued an Internet video featuring Michelle …
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The Politico:
Racial woes: GOP fails to recruit minorities  —  Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.
Discussion: Macsmind
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Not A Serious Threat  —  This remarkable bit of footage from Barack Obama's appearance in Oregon last night is now floating around on YouTube.  It might be useful as an undergraduate course exam: how many errors can you spot?  Obama apparently believes that Iran and other rogues states …
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FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 5/18  —  For the first time since we began tracking our results in early March, both Democrats are now slight favorites in their prospective races against John McCain.  —  The cheery news for the Democrats is in Minnesota, where a new Star Tribune poll has Barack …
CNN:
Clinton cites Karl Rove as reason to stay in
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Opens Up 16-Point Lead, Biggest Yet  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Barack Obama with his largest advantage over Hillary Clinton in Democratic voters' nomination preferences thus far, 55% to 39%.  —  Obama's previous largest lead was 11 percentage points, in May 15-17 and April 12-14 polling.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Wonkette
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Tracking Poll: Obama opens up biggest lead ever over Clinton  —  (CNN)- Amid reports that the Democratic Party's leaders and largest fundraisers are beginning to take steps to try to bring their party together after a long, hard-fought primary campaign, the latest Gallup daily tracking poll …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Top Hillarylander mulls Obama job  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's former campaign manager and confidante, Patti Solis Doyle, and Sen. Barack Obama's top adviser have informally discussed the former Clintonite's going to work for the Obama campaign in the general election.
Agence France Presse:
US billionaire Buffett backs Obama for president  —  Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but that since it appeared Obama would win the party's nomination, “I will be very happy if he is elected president.
The Huffington Post:
Superdelegates Turned Down $1 Million Offer From Clinton Donor  —  One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization's two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse …
George Packer / New Yorker:
THE FALL OF CONSERVATISM  —  Have the Republicans run out of ideas? … The era of American politics that has been dying before our eyes was born in 1966.  That January, a twenty-seven-year-old editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat named Patrick Buchanan went to work for Richard Nixon …
Steve Capus / White House:
Setting the Record Straight: President Bush's Interview With Richard Engel of NBC News  —  The following is a letter from Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie to NBC News President Steve Capus:  —  30 Rockefeller Plaza  —  New York, N.Y. 10112  —  Mr. Capus:
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KSTP-TV:
News crew attacked during report at TiZA charter school  —  The state Education Department on Monday directed a Minnesota charter school to “correct” two areas related to religion at the school on Monday.  —  Tarik ibn Zayad Academy, which focuses on Middle Eastern culture and shares a mosque …
Matt / Think Progress:
Kristol's Third Strike: Weekly Standard Editor Gets The Facts Wrong In His New York Times Column  —  In his New York Times column today, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol tried to find reasons for conservatives to be optimistic about 2008 elections, despite the claims of some Republicans that …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The NYT's latest Kristol embarrassment
Discussion: PERRspectives Blog and Hoffmania!
Matt / Think Progress:
McCain's campaign manager's name still on lobbying firm's letterhead.  —  Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign has recently begun purging itself of lobbyists.  Yesterday, a fifth aide resigned because of lobbying ties.  Yet McCain is still refusing to fire certain top aides, like campaign manager Rick Davis, who is a former lobbyist.
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Marc Ambinder:
Guilt-By-Association Update: The Optics
Paul J. Nyden / Charleston Gazette:
Byrd endorses Obama for president  —  Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., endorsed Barack Obama for president shortly after noon today, focusing on his hope to end the Iraq War.  —  “As people all across this great nation know, I have been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush …
 
 
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
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CNN:
Ferraro suggests she may not vote for Obama
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