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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Muslims barred from picture at Obama event — Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women's headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
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CBN.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Obama Expresses ‘Deep Disappointment’ in McCain's Silence on Wife Attacks — In a one-on-one interview with The Brody File, Barack Obama says he is deeply disappointed that John McCain has not spoken out against the attacks leveled against his wife.
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Amanda L. Pentler / NY Daily News:
Cindy McCain cooks up more controversy — Cindy McCain's been caught with her hand in the cookie jar again. — McCain's recipe for oatmeal-butterscotch cookies, published on the Family Circle Web site earlier in the month, appears to be an almost exact replica of a Hershey's recipe.
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Washington Wire:
Michelle Obama Applauds Hillary Clinton on “The View” — Susan Davis reports on the presidential race. — In a guest appearance on ABC's “The View” today Michelle Obama sided with Sen. Hillary Clinton's view that sexism played a role in the presidential primary campaign.
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Christopher Beam / Slate:
The Truth About Barack Obama — RUMORS THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN SHOULDN'T TRY TO CORRECT. — The Barack Obama presidential campaign introduced a new site last week, FightTheSmears.com, that it hopes will debunk persistent myths about the senator: that he's a Muslim, that he won't say the Pledge of Allegiance, etc.
Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 6/18 — A little more than two months ago, I ran through a scenario that predicted what might happen if half of the Hillary Clinton Democrats who said they were going to vote for John McCain instead gravitated back to Barack Obama. The prediction was that the so-called …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Working Group — Obama announces his “National Security Working Group” — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright — Senator David Boren, former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence — Secretary of State Warren Christopher — Greg Craig, former director …
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Alexander Marquardt / CNN:
Huckabee: Demonizing Obama is a ‘fatal mistake’ — (CNN) - Former GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee called Barack Obama's candidacy “a landmark achievement” Tuesday, and warned fellow Republicans not to demonize Obama. — “Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama accuser has long rap sheet — Larry Sinclair is wanted in Colorado, but you can catch him today at the National Press Club. — Sinclair is familiar to political junkies and reporters as the source of outlandish allegations about Senator Barack Obama, tales that began with sex and drugs and moved on to murder.
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Bernard Goldberg / Wall Street Journal:
Russert Took Media Bias Seriously — There have been millions of words written and spoken in the past few days about Tim Russert — words about how Tim knew his beat better than almost anyone in Washington, about how hard work was in his blue-collar DNA, and about what a decent guy he was. All true.
Jen DiMascio / The Crypt's Blogs:
GAO upends Air Force tanker award — The Government Accountability Office today upheld Boeing's protest of the Air Force's decision to award a $40 billion contract for new aerial refueling tankers to Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co, saying its review found the service made …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Calls for End to Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling — WASHINGTON — President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling and open a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration, asserting that those steps and others would lower gasoline prices and …
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Jim Manzi / The Corner:
Why We're Going to Win on Global Warming — Almost a year ago to the day, National Review published what turned out to be a somewhat controversial cover story on global warming in which I argued three things: (1) anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real, (2) current projections …
Hank Hayes / timesnews.net:
Bredesen says Obama ‘not real competitive’ in Volunteer State — KINGSPORT — Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is “not real competitive” with GOP opponent John McCain in Tennessee right now, Gov. Phil Bredesen admitted Tuesday. — “I think that unless it gets closer …
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senator Viewed Mortgage Treatment as a ‘Courtesy’ — WASHINGTON — Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut said Tuesday that he was aware that Countrywide Financial Corporation had assigned him to a V.I.P. program in 2003 when he refinanced mortgages on his homes in Connecticut and Washington …
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Nina Easton / Fortune:
Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all — The Democratic nominee, in an interview with Fortune, says he wants free trade “to work for all people.” — WASHINGTON (Fortune) — The general campaign is on, independent voters are up for grabs, and Barack Obama is toning down his populist rhetoric - at least when it comes to free trade.
Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: Obama Leads McCain, But Wins No Big Bounce — Defeating Hillary Clinton and locking up the Democratic Party nomination fails to propel Obama forward — UTICA, New York - Democrat Barack Obama holds an edge over Republican John McCain in the race for U.S. President …