memeorandum: Puerto Rico and the Popular Vote (Ed Kilgore/Democratic Strategist)

10:45 AM ET, June 2, 2008

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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.

Discussion: Newsday, The Carpetbagger Report, TIME.com, Prairie Weather, The Field, Comments from Left Field and The Jed Report

Adam Nagourney / New York Times:

Winning Again, Clinton Weighs Her Options — WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won another overwhelming victory over Senator Barack Obama on Sunday — this time in Puerto Rico — even as many Democrats, including some of her supporters, suggested it would be best if she dropped …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Towleroad.com, TPM Election Central, MSNBC, On Deadline and New York Post

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 …

Discussion: The Sideshow

Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal: For Now, McCain Has The TV-Ad Scene to Himself

Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press: Clinton seeks to go after Obama superdelegates

Catherine Dodge / Bloomberg:
Clinton Puerto Rico Win Doesn't Revive Nomination Bid

Discussion: The Political Carnival

Wall Street Journal:
Obama Poised to Claim Victory

Discussion: TalkLeft and Real Clear Politics

Ed Kilgore / Democratic Strategist:
Puerto Rico and the Popular Vote

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Prairie Weather, Comments from Left Field and Jack and Jill Politics

Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton may lose key supporters soon

Discussion: The Caucus, New York Times, The Carpetbagger Report, Guardian and TIME.com

Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama-Clinton marathon near the line

Discussion: Rough Sketch, New York Times and Ben Smith's Blogs

Beth Fouhy / Associated Press: Clinton Ponders Next Move in Marathon Race

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

Discussion: marbury

SusanUnPC / NO QUARTER:

[VIDEO UPDATE] BREAKING NEWS on “Whitey” Tape from Fox News: A TV Network HAS the Tape — Here's the text version at TVEyes.com: — FNC 06/01/2008 14:43:30: ...>>> welcome back to our special coverage live coverage from puerto rico. just before the break, roger stone the republican strategist …

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Gateway Pundit, PoliGazette, The American Mind, Scared Monkeys, The Strata-Sphere, No More Mister Nice Blog and Flopping Aces

Booman Tribune:

The Michelle Tape — My old friend, Larry Johnson, knows about manipulating elections from his training with the Central Intelligence Agency. He doesn't want Obama to win the nomination for whatever reason, and he's in full propaganda mode to do everything he can to frighten the superdelegates.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, protein wisdom, All Spin Zone, The Strata-Sphere, Riehl World View, Comments from Left Field, The Campaign Spot, The Mahablog, Althouse, Balloon Juice, Bang the Drum, Oliver Willis, Stop The ACLU, Unfogged, Newshoggers.com, Corrente and NO QUARTER

Boston Globe:

Senator Kennedy to have brain surgery this morning — Senator Edward M. Kennedy is undergoing surgery for his malignant brain tumor at Duke University this morning, his office announced today. — The surgery is to begin about 9 a.m. and will last approximately six hours.

Discussion: Pam's House Blend, Shakesville and Truthdig

Mike Baker / Associated Press:
Kennedy to undergo surgery at Duke for brain tumor

Discussion: MyDD

CNN: Kennedy to have brain surgery Monday

Oliver Burkeman / Guardian:

Hillary: my part in her downfall — As Hillary Clinton's doomed presidential bid draws to a painful close, one man has been cast as the scapegoat. In his first interview, Mark Penn, the candidate's former chief strategist, talks to Oliver Burkeman about what went wrong

Discussion: The Debatable Land and TownHall Blog

Lydia Saad / Gallup:

Americans Favor President Meeting With U.S. Enemies — Public thinks it's a good idea to meet with leaders of enemy countries — PRINCETON, NJ — Large majorities of Democrats and independents, and even half of Republicans, believe the president of the United States should meet with the leaders …

Discussion: The Swamp

Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:
McCain calls for Iran divestment effort

Discussion: Jonathan Martin's Blogs

Stuart Silverstein / Top of the Ticket:
John McCain proposes squeezing Iran financially

Discussion: Israel Matzav

William Kristol / New York Times:

What Obama Left Out — Commencement speeches are hard. — I gave one at a college about seven years ago. I labored over it, consulting orations from years past, writing and rewriting drafts. I ended up with remarks that struck me — even while I delivered them — as banal and platitudinous.

Discussion: Weekly Standard Blog, Think Progress, Power Line, Eschaton, Shakesville, Blue Girl, Red State and TBogg

Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:

McClellan Recounts Administration's Missed Chances After '04 Election — Believe it or not, even after a week of wall-to-wall media coverage, there's still grist to mull over from the new Scott McClellan memoir, “What Happened.” — McClellan, the press-secretary-turned-administration critic …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hot Air

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch:

Tomgram: Kill Them! We Are Going to Wipe Them Out! — Presidential Bloodlust — The Movie-Made War World of George W. Bush — Here's a memory for you. I was probably five or six and sitting with my father in a movie house off New York's Times Square — one of the slightly seedy theaters …

Discussion: Think Progress

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.

Discussion: Think Progress, Washington Monthly, Jules Crittenden, Discourse.net, The Political Carnival and Patterico's Pontifications

Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:

Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, “Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler” (Paging Joe Lieberman!) — On March 16, 2003, on the eve of the United States' invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist. In his sermon, “The Final Dictator,” …

Discussion: Attackerman, Boston Globe and Pam's House Blend

New York Times:

Mr. Rove Talks, but Doesn't Answer — In a recent appearance on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” Karl Rove was asked if he had a role in the Justice Department's decision to prosecute Don Siegelman. The former Democratic governor of Alabama was convicted and sentenced to more than seven years …

Discussion: At-Largely, AMERICAblog, DownWithTyranny! and Left In Alabama

Jaketapper / Political Punch:

Rev. Pfleger: “America is the Greatest Sin Against God” — In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger's sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama's now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side of Chicago, the longtime Obama associate condemns America for racism in fairly harsh terms.