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Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Clinton may take delegate fight to convention … BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far. In an interview with The Associated Press …
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Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton compares the Florida and Michigan fight to civil rights movement — My colleague Ken Vogel reports: … She said “there's a reason why so many have fought so hard and sacrificed so much. It's because they knew that to be a citizen of this country is to have the right and responsibility to help shape its future.
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The New Republic, Tennessee Guerilla Women, Sister Toldjah, Spin Cycle, Balloon Juice, Hot Air, Donklephant and The Democratic Daily
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Obama faults McCain; Clinton mulls delegate fight — TAMPA, Fla. - Barack Obama criticized likely general election rival John McCain on Wednesday where it could hurt most — the Arizona senator's reputation as a champion of ethics. Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile, raised the possibility …
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Yahoo! News, MiamiHerald.com, Ben Smith's Blogs, NO QUARTER, PoliBlog (TM), TPM Election Central and The Confluence
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Obama's strategy now faces a bigger test
Obama's strategy now faces a bigger test
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The New Republic, Associated Press, protein wisdom, Guardian Unlimited and Oliver Willis
Peter Viles / L.A. Land:
Report: California Congresswoman walked away from $578K mortgage — Capitol Weekly reports that newly elected California Congresswoman Laura Richardson walked away from the mortgage on her $535,000 Sacramento home, letting the house slip into foreclosure and disrepair less than two years after she bought it with no money down.
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Anthony York / Capitol Weekly:
Foreclosure tale shows that nobody is immune from crisis — As the real estate market softened in 2007, the new owner of a three-bedroom, 1,600-square-foot house in Sacramento's Curtis Park neighborhood ran into trouble. The house that was purchased for $535,000 in January had lost equity.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain to Meet 3 Possible Running Mates — Senator John McCain is planning to meet this weekend with at least three potential Republican running mates at a gathering at his ranch in Arizona, suggesting that he is stepping up his search for a vice president now that the Democratic contest …
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Political Radar, Marc Ambinder, Donklephant, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, TIME.com, Hot Air and Boston Globe
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Marc Ambinder:
Linda Douglass Joins The Obama Campaign — Linda Douglass, an award-winning television and print journalist who currently serves as a contributing editor to National Journal, will join Barack Obama's presidential campaign as a senior strategist and as a senior campaign spokesperson on the roadshow, a newly created position.
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Matt Kelley / USA Today:
McCain adviser's work as lobbyist comes to light — This story is part of USA TODAY's series, “The Price of Power,” which tracks the political and business relationships between public officials and donors. — WASHINGTON — John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied the Arizona senator's staff …
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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Lobbyists: This is our thanks? — More than a few Republican lobbyists in Washington are scratching their heads these days, asking: So this is the thanks we get? — It was a small band of loyal lobbyists who stood by presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain last August …
Joseph Lieberman / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats and Our Enemies — How did the Democratic Party get here? How did the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core of its identity and its purpose?
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Attackerman, Marc Ambinder, Newshoggers.com, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Moderate Voice, Don Surber, Blog P.I., The Trail, Salon, Weekly Standard Blog, The Carpetbagger Report, Martini Revolution, Political Byline, Think Progress, The Raw Story, Stop The ACLU, Democratic Strategist, TownHall Blog, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Connecting.the.Dots
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Yochi J. Dreazen / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Delays Report on Iran Arms — WASHINGTON — The U.S. military, in a shift, has postponed the release of a report detailing allegations of Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents, according to people familiar with the matter. — The military had initially planned to publicize …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will (AUDIO) — John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine.
Liza / culturekitchen:
David Gergen and CNN pundits challenge Hillary Clinton to denounce the racist vote [UPDATED 2] — [ Editorial Note: Now we have the important part of the transcript. ] — This is one of those historic TV moments that people will be talking about for a long time. And let me tell you, I lost it as it was happening.
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Bang the Drum
The Moderate Voice:
Another Myth About Obama Is Shattered … Exit polls from Oregon punch a big hole in the theory that Barack Obama's problem with working class whites is generic. — As the former president's son alludes to in his quip on MSNBC last night, Obama's real problem appears to be with Appalachian whites …
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Megan McArdle:
Are conservatives out of ideas? — Liberals got made when this question was asked about them four years ago. But I'll admit it—in my opinion, the conservatarian coalition is basically out of ammo. A basic commitment to free markets was enough to hold the coalition together through communism and into the current decade.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain incentivizing supporters to comment on blogs — John McCain's campaign is using their campaign website to encourage supporters to post supportive comments on political blogs, including the most well-known liberal site in the blogosphere. And to make things easier …
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michellemalkin.com, Marc Ambinder, TownHall Blog, Wonkette, Lawyers, Guns and Money, TBogg and Daniel W. Drezner