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5:25 PM ET, June 1, 2008

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Clinton scores big win in Puerto Rico — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton will win Puerto Rico's Democratic primary by a wide margin, CNN projects, giving her the larger share of the territory's 55 delegates. — With about 30 percent of precincts reporting …

Discussion: TIME.com, Los Angeles Times, African American …, Swampland, culturekitchen, TPM Election Central, PoliBlog (TM) and MSNBC

Fox News:

Clinton Emerges Victorious in Puerto Rico, But Win May Not Propel Candidacy — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hillary Clinton won the Democratic presidential primary in Puerto Rico on Sunday, and is expected to return to the mainland with a purseful of delegates.

Discussion: Fausta's blog, Washington Post, Scared Monkeys, Taylor Marsh and MyDD

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Clinton Puts Up Popular Vote Ad — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) took to the airwaves in South Dakota and Montana today with an ad that pushes the idea that she is winning the popular vote in the race against Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) — “Some say there isn't a single reason for Hillary …

Discussion: TalkLeft, Salon, The Jed Report, Real Clear Politics and Prairie Weather

Jeralyn / TalkLeft:

Turnout in Puerto Rico May Be Low — Geraldo Rivera is in Puerto Rico. He interviewed Hillary Clinton but it hasn't aired yet. — From his live report: — Turnout has been low to moderate. — She needs 160,000 votes for popular vote lead — She will win majority of delegates and superdelegates.

Discussion: Associated Press, Sister Toldjah, Redstate and Pajamas Media

Jeralyn / TalkLeft:

Popular Vote Total After Puerto Rico — The number I care about is the popular vote total after Puerto Rico. If Obama hasn't reached 2,118 pledged delegates when the votes are counted tonight, that number should be as important to superdelegates as the pledged delegate total.

Discussion: Wake up America, Sister Toldjah and Unqualified Offerings

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton: ‘17 Million’ — Clinton's new ad, airing in Montana …

Discussion: Hot Air

Al Giordano / The Field:
Puerto Rico Results Thread

Discussion: TalkLeft, Eunomia and Real Clear Politics

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Coming home? — Hillary's spending Monday night in New York City …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Foon Rhee / Boston Globe: Clinton touts popular vote lead

MSNBC:
Clinton easily wins Puerto Rico, NBC projects

Discussion: the albany project

Zzaki / Political Radar:
Obama Won't Wait for Clinton Concession

Discussion: Associated Press, Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, The Jed Report, Tennessee Guerilla Women, TIME.com, Telegraph and The Caucus

Dave Newbart / Chicago Sun Times:

Rev. Pfleger: 'They want to kill me...it's been ugly' — The Rev. Michael Pfleger, who helped reignite Barack Obama's pastor problems by mocking Hillary Clinton, said this evening he's received “thousands of hate threats” since his videotaped pulpit rant. — “They want to kill me,” …

Discussion: Associated Press, Jules Crittenden, Wake up America, Lynn Sweet, Gateway Pundit, JammieWearingFool, TIME.com and QandO

Tahman Bradley / Political Punch:

Father Pfleger Bashed Clintons...Again — Apparently last Sunday, Father Michael Pfleger — the fiery liberal activist and longtime friend and associate of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois — gave another sermon mentioning the Clintons disparagingly, in addition to the one he gave at Obama's (now former) church.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Campaign Spot and Political Radar

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Leaving His Church — Obama on Trinity:

Discussion: Prairie Weather, TalkLeft and Baltimore Sun

Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Pews you can lose

Discussion: Flopping Aces, GINA COBB and Power Line

Dan Gilgoff / God-o-Meter:
Obama's Church Resignation: Not a Rebuke

Discussion: Prairie Weather

The Moderate Voice:
Senator Obama's Letter Resigning from Trinity: Trinity's Response

Discussion: Comments from Left Field, CNN, The Corner and Donklephant

Todd S. Purdum / Vanity Fair:

The Comeback Id — Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton's post-White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the media blowups that have bruised his wife's campaign, to the private-jetting around with a skirt-chasing, scandal-tinged posse.

Discussion: Ross Douthat, Liberal Values, Sister Toldjah and Booman Tribune

Fox News:

Bill Clinton Fights Back Against Brutal Vanity Fair Article — The Office of President Bill Clinton responded with fury Sunday to a Vanity Fair article that attacks the former president and suggests he is out of control personally and consumed by “cavernous narcissism.”

Washington Post:

The Iraqi Upturn — THERE'S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks — which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington's attention has been fixed elsewhere, military analysts have watched …

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, Democracy Project, The Strata-Sphere, Hot Air, African American …, Flopping Aces, MSNBC, The Diplomad, NewsBusters.org, The Long War Journal, Commentary, Dean's World and Redstate

Alexandra Zavis / Los Angeles Times:
In Iraq, month ends with lowest U.S. death toll yet

Discussion: Neptunus Lex, Wall Street Journal, Attackerman, Weekly Standard, Commentary, Gateway Pundit and missing links

Amanda / Think Progress:

McClellan promises to donate portion of book profits to Iraq veterans. — Yesterday, MoveOn launched a petition calling on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan to donate the proceeds from his new book to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report

Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
McClellan Agrees To Donate Some Proceeds Of His Book To Iraq/Afghanistan Vets

Discussion: Redstate

Ben Feller / Associated Press:
McClellan: Bush should have fired Rove

Discussion: Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report and Roger L. Simon

Clark Hoyt / New York Times:

Entitled to Their Opinions, Yes. But Their Facts? — ON May 12, The Times published an Op-Ed article by Edward N. Luttwak, a military historian, who argued that any hopes that a President Barack Obama might improve relations with the Muslim world were unrealistic because Muslims would be …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, democracyarsenal.org, TPMCafe, Yourish.com, Ben Smith's Blogs and RADAMISTO

Walter Shapiro / Salon:

The new math in Florida and Michigan — After a day of wrangling in Washington, the magic number for the Democratic presidential nomination is now 2,118, and Hillary Clinton nets 24 largely symbolic votes. — Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee members, from left …

Discussion: Firedoglake, MyDD, Naked Politics and Associated Press

Taylor Marsh:
Dear Rules and Bylaw Committee Power Brokers

Discussion: The New Republic, Hillary Is 44, Obsidian Wings, TalkLeft, PoliGazette and Firedoglake

Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:

BREAKING NEWS: Michelle's Whitey Problem (Thread #2) — New and dramatic developments. This is a heads up. I'll post the news Monday morning by 0900 hours. Now I know why people who have seen the videotape say it is stunning. Barack's headaches are only starting.

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, Corrente, The Strata-Sphere and Flopping Aces