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3:35 AM ET, June 7, 2008

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Josh Margolin / New Jersey Online:
Andrews says he heard racist strategy from Clinton camp  —  A Democratic superdelegate from New Jersey said this week he is worried that unifying the party behind Barack Obama may be difficult because the Clinton camp “has engaged in some very divisive tactics and rhetoric it should not have.”
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CNN:
CNN Poll: McCain and Obama locked in a dead heat  —  (Above: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama talk backstage at AIPAC in Washington Wednesday.  Photo credit: Callie Shell/Aurora for TIME)  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - The general election season opens with a neck-and-neck race between Barack …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Malcolm not over Clinton defeat  —  In an e-mail to supporters, EMILY's List President Ellen Malcolm writes warmly of Obama, but also writes that she's not, personally, quite over her “anger and grief” at Clinton's defeat: … Full e-mail after the jump.  —  Dear ,  —  Thank you Hillary.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Dems want Obama-Clinton ticket  —  CNN Deputy Political Director  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — A majority of Democrats think Barack Obama should select Hillary Clinton as his running mate, according to a new national poll.  —  Fifty-four percent of registered Democrats questioned …
Mark Morford / San Francisco Chronicle:
You buying it?  —  Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician.  You buying it?  —  I find I'm having this discussion, this weird little debate, more and more, with colleagues, with readers, with liberals and moderates and miserable, deeply depressed Republicans …
Michelle Goldberg / The New Republic:
3 A.M. For Feminism  —  Clinton dead-enders and the crisis in the women's movement.  —  Amy Siskind, a 42-year-old mother of two from Westchester, stood in a Washington, D.C., park on the last day in May, telling a few hundred cheering people that she would not, under any circumstances, vote for Barack Obama.
Abha Bhattarai / New York Times:
Dow Slides Nearly 400 Points; Oil Surges  —  The markets opened lower on Friday and then just kept falling, hit by remarkable rise in the price of crude oil and a spike in the unemployment rate.  —  Wall Street suffered its worst losses in more than two months.
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CNNMoney.com:
Oil surges $11 to record $138
Discussion: Open Left and TIME.com
Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Black Group Offended by Delivery of T-Shirt  —  The president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is disturbed by an offensive t-shirt the group received in the mail Wednesday, the day after Barack Obama claimed his party's presidential nomination.  The shirt has a cartoon image …
Discussion: Wake up America and Think Progress
Andy Ostroy / The Huffington Post:
The Sleazy GOP Attack Machine Kicks Into High Gear: Welcome to “F**K Whitey” and “RadicalVille”  —  It's only been three days since Sen. Barack Obama historically won the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.  But the Republican venom against the candidate and his wife Michelle is starting to spew.
Discussion: Bang the Drum
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Prolonged battle gave Obama's opponents much time to prepare  —  When Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) finally secured the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, his Republican opponents were fully prepared to welcome the Illinois senator to the general election.  —  Given Obama's six-month, 54-contest …
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David M. Herszenhorn / The Caucus:
More on the Obama-Clinton Meeting  —  Senator Dianne Feinstein …
Matt / Think Progress:
Clarke On Iraq War Architects: 'We Shouldn't Let These People Back Into Polite Society'  —  Noting that “prominent Democrats” had ruled out impeachment, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann asked former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke on his show last night, what “remedy” there could be for the lies …
Martin Kady II / The Crypt's Blogs:
Dems yank global warming bill  —  Apparently three days of debate was enough for what many senators called “the most important issue facing the planet.”  —  With little chance of winning passage of a sweeping 500-page global warming bill, the Senate Democratic leadership is planning to yank …
Fred Thompson / Townhall.com:
HamNation: Obama on Your Shoulder  —  Mary Katharine Ham, with the help of her favorite songwriter, explores life under the new rules and politics of an Obama administration that's in all your business.  —  Your Name:  —  Your Email:
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William K. Rashbaum / City Room:
City's Top Crane Inspector Is Arrested
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Brian Blackstone / Wall Street Journal:
Unemployment Rate Jumps to 5.5% As Economy Continues to Shed Jobs
Reuters:
US walking away from U.N. rights forum -diplomats
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Fat Hominid  —  There's a paper to be written at some point …
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Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
Germany Abuzz at Racy Novel of Sex and Hygiene
Media Matters for America:
Fox News' E.D. Hill teased discussion of Obama dap: “A fist bump?
Discussion: RADAMISTO
Josh Kraushaar / The Crypt's Blogs:
Kerry rival ends campaign for Mass. Senate
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Michael Goldfarb / John McCain 2008:
McCain: Obama's Positions Are So Changey
Amy Sullivan / Time:
Why Didn't More Women Vote for Hillary?
Discussion: TalkLeft and protein wisdom
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Among Blacks, Hillary Clinton's Image Sinks Over Last Year
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
MSNBC Reporter Calls Spike Lee “Uppity”
Discussion: Too Sense
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Todd: Clinton's couldas, shouldas, wouldas
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Tribune Co. Plans Sharp Cutbacks at Papers
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Recoil Election  —  It is the most amazing thing that a young black man …
 

 
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