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9:45 AM ET, May 21, 2008

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CNN:
Another split decision in Democratic race  —  (CNN) — Despite Hillary Clinton's landslide victory in Kentucky, Barack Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates in the race for the Democratic nomination.  —  Clinton won Kentucky by more than 30 points, but Obama's share of the state's 51 delegates …
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Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Clinton Fades Even in a Victory  —  While Senator Barack Obama gingerly commended his rival's “perseverance,” the shrinking candidacy of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton all but vanished from the television set on Tuesday, sidelined by bigger news.  —  Even her victory speech in Kentucky …
Washington Post:
Clinton Wins Her Faithful in Ky., But Obama Gains Whites in Ore.
Discussion: Hot Air and PoliGazette
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Money shocker!  Hillary Clinton's campaign debt soars to $31 million  —  No wonder Sen. Hillary Clinton was so late filing her required campaign financial reports Tuesday night.  Her political team didn't want the shocking news in it to overshadow her lopsided thumping of Sen. Barack Obama in Kentucky.
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
AWESOME NEW CLINTONIAN BULLS**T- BREAKING FAST  —  Lisa Caputo, one of the Clinton hacks on MSNBC tonight, just claimed (fraudulently) that Hillary had the popular vote but was behind in the delegate math, and that this felt like “Al Gore in 2000 when it had to go to the Supreme Court.”
John McCain / Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: Obama Opens Double-digit Lead Over McCain in National Test  —  Third-party candidates Nader and Barr show signs of strength in key demographic groups  —  UTICA, New York - Democrat Barack Obama has sprinted out to a 10-point lead over Republican John McCain in a four …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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John Whitesides / Reuters:
Obama leads McCain in November match: Reuters poll  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has opened an 8-point national lead on Republican John McCain as the U.S. presidential rivals turn their focus to a general election race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Discussion: The Reaction
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama Plans General Election Team
Discussion: Associated Press
Attaturk / Firedoglake:
More than just financing Bush Wars...  The Chinese are apparently taking a supervisory role in overseeing their investment. … Ms. Manning are you forgetting who the President and Vice-President are?  Sadly, it's par for the course.  —  This occurred during the period …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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Justin Rood / ABCNEWS:   Report: U.S. Soldiers Did ‘Dirty Work’ for Chinese Interrogators
Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
Former Detainee Describes ‘Water Treatment’
Discussion: Think Progress
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
We've Been Had  —  This was Obama's rally in Oregon over the weekend, which saw 75,000 people gather on the waterfront, on a sunny summer day, to hear the great one speak.  Or did they?  The headline in the New York Times was “Obama Draws Huge Crowd in Oregon.”  So they must have been there to see Obama, right?
Discussion: Pitchfork
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Robert Knight / NewsBusters.org:
Free Concert by Popular Band Preceded Obama's Big Rally
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Obama's Decemberists  —  Turns out that Obama's opening act …
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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?
Gizmodo:
Flying RC Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech  —  We had to double check that this wasn't a story about Second Life, but rather is an actual event in actual meatspace occurring this past weekend in Moscow.  As former chess champion Garry Kasparov was giving a speech to unite opposition political forces …
New York Times:
Operation in Sadr City Is an Iraqi Success, So Far  —  BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces rolled unopposed through the huge Shiite enclave of Sadr City on Tuesday, a dramatic turnaround from the bitter fighting that has plagued the Baghdad neighborhood for two months, and a qualified success for Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Last Debate  —  “What do you want?  Please, Sweetie, would you just tell me what you want?”  —  “Don't Sweetie me, Twiggy.  You know what I want.”  —  “Besides that, Hillary.  Seriously, you don't want your delusion to put John McCain in the White House.  Or maybe you do.  You have no shot.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
 
 
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Michelle Malkin / National Review:
Barack Gaffes  —  All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life.
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Matthew Yglesias:
McCainiacs for Clinton  —  Well, as predicted Obama won Oregon …
Discussion: The Mahablog and Eunomia
IBDeditorials.com:
Bashers Beware  —  The Presidency: It takes little courage …
Discussion: Power Line and Sadly, No!
Noah Pollak / Commentary:
McCain Is Losing the Iran Debate
Discussion: Political Byline
Sara Reistad-Long / New York Times:
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Discussion: normblog and Althouse
 

 
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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