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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Takes Lead Over McCain, 48% to 42% — Has consistently led McCain since Clinton decided to suspend campaign — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama is enjoying a modest bump in support following Hillary Clinton's exit from the presidential race.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA vs. McCAIN....Gallup's latest Obama-McCain tracking poll …
OBAMA vs. McCAIN....Gallup's latest Obama-McCain tracking poll …
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CNN:
McCain resurrects call for gas tax holiday — From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby, CNN's Dana Bash — WASHINGTON (CNN) - With gas prices reaching a national average of four dollars a gallon — a record high — John McCain is planning to resurrect his call for a national gas tax holiday …
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Associated Press:
Obama hits McCain on economy, gas prices — Two-week economic tour meant to highlight differences on taxes, spending — RALEIGH, N.C. - The presidential campaign's focus turned sharply to the economy Monday, an inopportune time for Republican John McCain as Americans cope with record-high gasoline prices and a spike in job losses.
Oliver Willis:
John McCain: Putin Is The President Of Germany — You learn new things all the time! — (Nobody tell Angela Merkel that Pooty-poot got her job!)
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Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
Senile? — John McCain thinks Putin is president of Germany! — (h/t Oliver Willis)
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Says He's Partnering With Elizabeth Edwards On Health Care — Obama's speech in Raleigh launching his economy tour is underway, and towards the end, during a discussion of health care, he drops a surprise aside that wasn't in the speech's prepared remarks: … More on this when we can establish the details.
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Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Elizabeth Edwards to have Obama's ear — Barack Obama announced in his economy speech today that Elizabeth Edwards will work with him on healthcare policy — the issue that is the cause of her life and on which she preferred Hillary Clinton. — While her husband John Edwards gave …
Examiner:
Bush confronted Rove's sins in church — Fired and brimestone — If you're going to fire someone, you want to make sure you do it in a place where the now-unemployed can't make a scene. — You know...a place like, say, a church. — That, according to a new book - “Machiavelli's Shadow” …
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The Huffington Post
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McClellan To Testify Before Judiciary Committee — Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, whose scathing memoir about his time in the Bush administration sent waves through Washington D.C., has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, a senior committee official told The Huffington Post.
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Dave Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Today's Obama Smear Attempt — Here's one of the ways the right's smear machine works. Far-right blogs post something. Then a site higher up their food chain picks it up, like NewsMax, CNSNews, WorldNetDaily or Politico. Then the Drudge Report or Moon's Washington Times gets it from there and spreads the story further.
Michelle Malkin:
The “grumpy Republican” problem; Update: E-mail from a Texas GOP convention attendee — Scroll down for updates...e-mail from Texas GOP convention attendee... The Texas GOP convened its party convention this week. It's finding the same problem plaguing the party in other states and at the national level: Disgruntled grass-roots.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated — Meet George W. Bush, time traveler. — He's in Poland in 1939 as Nazi tanks advance on Warsaw, then flying with his Navy-pilot father to battle imperial Japan. He's alongside Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War …
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Chris Good / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
GOP House Candidate: If This Rally Were in Canton, We Would Be Shot At — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) today circulated a video of GOP House candidate Kirk Schuring, at a rally in Ashland, Ohio, saying “we might be shot at” if the rally had been held in the downtown area of nearby Canton.
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Swing State Project
Mary Wisniewski / Chicago Sun Times:
Rev. Pfleger to return to St. Sabina with ‘no restrictions’ — He'll be back at St. Sabina, but he has to stay out of presidential politics — The South Side parish of St. Sabina exploded with shouts of joy and a standing ovation Sunday morning at the news firebrand Catholic pastor Rev. Michael Pfleger would be returning June 16.
Rasmussen Reports:
Public Perceptions of Obama and McCain Shifting Rapidly — Rasmussen Reports data shows that public perceptions of both Barack Obama and John McCain are shifting rapidly during Election 2008. That same data suggests perceptions will continue to change through Election Day (see video).
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate Votes To Privatize Its Failing Restaurants — Year after year, decade upon decade, the U.S. Senate's network of restaurants has lost staggering amounts of money — more than $18 million since 1993, according to one report, and an estimated $2 million this year alone, according to another.
Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
Hillary Clinton paid a heavy price for presidential run — Eighteen million votes: $212 million. Some 1,926 delegates: $109,823 a pop. Blowing the biggest head start in presidential history: priceless. — From anointed to also-ran, Hillary Clinton spent more money to lose a primary election …