memeorandum: Clinton Wins Easily in Puerto Rico (Anne E. Kornblut/Washington Post)

5:55 AM ET, June 2, 2008

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Clinton wins big in Puerto Rico — Hillary Rodham Clinton's decisive win in Puerto Rico demonstrated that her electoral coalition has at least temporarily survived the blow the Democratic Party dealt her campaign Saturday in denying it an infusion of delegates from Michigan.

Discussion: Donklephant and The Carpetbagger Report

Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:

Clinton Wins Easily in Puerto Rico — She Holds Out Hope As Obama Nears Delegate Majority — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) won the Puerto Rico primary comfortably on Sunday, claiming perhaps her last triumph in the race for a Democratic presidential nomination that increasingly appears to be out of her reach.

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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:

Clinton Wins Puerto Rico, but Her Fate Is Still Uncertain — WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Puerto Rico primary on Sunday, another victory for her over Senator Barack Obama in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. Still, after an explosive weekend …

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Fafnir / Fafblog:

The Audacity Of Hope — So now everybody's all “oh, Hillary Clinton can't win the nomination” and “oh, Hillary Clinton can't be president” and “oh, Hillary Clinton, haven't they sedated her yet.” Well that's just talking crazy talk! There's tons a stuff that can happen between …

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The Caucus:
The Day After, Clinton Aides Push Delegate Fight

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

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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Popular Vote Total After Puerto Rico

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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Clinton Puts Up Popular Vote Ad

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CNN:
Clinton focuses on popular vote after Puerto Rico win

Associated Press:
Clinton wins Puerto Rico but Obama gains delegates

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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Turnout in Puerto Rico May Be Low

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Clinton camp converging on New York Tuesday, and shedding staff — Members of Hillary Clinton's advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending, two Clinton staffers tell my colleague Amie Parnes.

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

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Al Giordano / The Field:
Puerto Rico Results Thread

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Guardian:

US accused of holding suspects on prison ships — The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.

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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.

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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.”

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Ross Douthat:
The Dog That Didn't Bark — Todd Purdum on Bill Clinton, in the forthcoming Vanity Fair:

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Ethan Bronner / New York Times:

State Dept. Reinstates Gaza Fulbright Grants — JERUSALEM — The American State Department has reinstated seven Fulbright grants offered to Palestinians in Gaza for advanced study in the United States, reversing a decision to withdraw the scholarships because of Israel's ban on Palestinians' leaving Gaza for study abroad.

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David Harrison / Telegraph:

Christian preachers face arrest in Birmingham — A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham. — The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a “hate crime” …

Discussion: Hot Air, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Gates of Vienna and GINA COBB

Hindrocket / Power Line:

A STRATEGIC RETREAT? — We wrote here about Barack Obama's Iraq dilemma. He has ridden the Democratic Party's defeatism to a virtual lock on the Presidential nomination, even as events in Iraq have proved his defeatism wrong. So what is he to do in anticipation of the general election …

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, NewsBusters.org and The Daily Dish

Associated Press:

Marine, back from Iraq, shot dead in his home town — CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — On leave from the violence he had survived in the war in Iraq, a young Marine was so wary of crime on the streets of his own home town that he carried only $8 to avoid becoming a robbery target.

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

The day the Democrats lost it — From Dana Milbank's coverage of yesterday's food fight and disenfranchisement festival: — The chaos and vitriol seemed to confirm Democrats' fears that they might blow an election that should otherwise be an easy victory for them.

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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.

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