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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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Thomas B. Edsall / The Huffington Post:
GOP Insiders Worry About McCain's Chances — For four months John McCain had a clear field while Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were at each other's throats. Given the opportunity, the Arizona Senator failed to define the debate in favorable terms, spending much of the valuable primary …
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Pelosi backs Emanuel for senator from Ill. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reported to be privately talking about Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the House Democratic Caucus chairman, as the next senator from Illinois if Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election.
William Kristol / New York Times:
A Campaign We Can Believe In? — Hillary Clinton's concession …
A Campaign We Can Believe In? — Hillary Clinton's concession …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Beginnings Of A Bump — Obama has his strongest showing to date …
Beginnings Of A Bump — Obama has his strongest showing to date …
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Eunomia
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple. — Search the Internet for “Bush Lied” products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs. The basic “Bush Lied, People Died” bumper sticker is only the beginning. — Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) …
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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.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Top Talent Scout for Obama Tied to Subprime Lender — Could Become a Political Liability — Long-standing ties between a member of Senator Obama's new vice presidential search team and a prominent mortgage executive the senator has pilloried could become a political liability that hampers …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's a Different Country — Fervent supporters of Barack Obama like to say that putting him in the White House would transform America. With all due respect to the candidate, that gets it backward. Mr. Obama is an impressive speaker who has run a brilliant campaign — but if he wins in November …
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
McCain's Web site talks about the anti-Christ being ‘a Jew,’ Hillary being a ‘bitch,’ Obama being a ‘Muslim fag,’ and America bringing 9/11 on itself — · Digg It! · — UPDATE: Jed finds more on other McCain sites, including a reference to Obama as a n*gger.
CNN:
Obama ‘fist bump’ catching on — (CNN) — In a reference to Barack and Michelle Obama's celebratory fist bump on Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, ended their conversation on CNN's Late Edition with their own version of the “hand shake.”
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Crooks and Liars
Bruce Bartlett / The New Republic:
Mr. Right? — The rise of the Obamacons. — The New Yorker is hardly the optimal vehicle for reaching the conservative intelligentsia. But, last year, Barack Obama cooperated with a profile for that magazine where he seemed to be speaking directly to the right.
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 …
Ari Melber / The Nation:
White Male Pundit Power — It's still all about the white men. Hillary Clinton's loss has renewed critiques that American political media is slanted, sexist and dominated by men. While Clinton and Obama broke barriers in the Democratic primary, swiftly dispatching white male Senators …
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Matthew Yglesias, Outside The Beltway, MoJoBlog, The Other McCain and American Spectator
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain DID deliver line tweaking press — John McCain told Newsweek that he did not deliver a portion from the prepared text of his speech last Tuesday chiding the media for not giving Hillary Clinton her due. But video from McCain's address shows him giving the line as written.
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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 …
Newsweek:
His Jewish ‘Problem’: A Myth? — Charles Ommanney / Getty Images for Newsweek — The candidate sought to reassure the crowd at AIPAC last week — Barack Obama received a standing ovation when he proclaimed his unwavering support for Israel to the influential lobbying group AIPAC last week.
Tony Rizzo / Kansas City Star:
Judge's ban on the use of the word ‘rape’ at trial reflects trend — It's the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her. — She was raped. — But a judge prohibited her from uttering the word “rape” in front of a jury. The term “sexual assault” also was taboo …
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