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Plain Dealer / Cleveland's Top Story …:
Stephanie Tubbs Jones has died, sources say — U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American woman to represent Ohio in Congress, has died after suffering a brain aneurysm, said sources familiar with the situation. — She was removed from life support at 12:19 p.m. at Huron Road Hospital, the sources said.
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Ohio congresswoman Tubbs Jones hospitalized — (CNN) — Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio — a Democratic superdelegate and one of Hillary Clinton's most ardent supporters — was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, the hospital said.
CBS News:
Report: Rep. Tubbs Jones On Life Support — Congresswoman From Cleveland Hospitalized After Suffering Aneurysm — (CBS) This story was written by CBS News reporter Ryan Corsaro. — Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, is reported to have suffered an aneurysm and is not expected to recover …
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Poll shows McCain in 5-point lead over Obama — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Obama's Ads in Key States Go on Attack — WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama has started a sustained and hard-hitting advertising campaign against Senator John McCain in states that will be vital this fall, painting Mr. McCain in a series of commercials as disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle class.
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Marc Ambinder:
On Those National Polls — The Obama campaign has two disadvantages when it comes to spinning reporters about poll numbers. — One is an us-versus-the-establishment mentality that has, at times, served to protect the campaign from the ill-winds of fashionable opinion: last summer, the national press all but wrote Obama's obituary.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:Obama campaign set to release TV ad linking McCain, Reed
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Existenz / Old Man McCain:
Rare Video: Barack Obama Circa 1995 — Curious to see what Barack Obama was like before he got into politics? — This rare TV interview from 1995 will give you some insight. One thing is clear - the guy is consistent. He's been talking about post-racial, non-polarized politics for over a decade now.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:Obama In 1995 — A blogger has dug up an interesting television …
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Nick Pisa / Telegraph:
Barack Obama's ‘lost’ brother found in Kenya — Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed. — The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut …
Borys Krawczeniuk / The Times-Tribune:
Local Clinton backers, McCain adviser meet — A brother of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and local Democrats who backed her unsuccessful presidential campaign socialized privately Monday with a top surrogate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:Two Against The One — In the dead of night in a small hideaway office …
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Ken Whitehouse / Nashville Post:
Obama team to hold ‘major’ event Saturday in Bayh's Indiana — Campaign team gathering for possible veep announcement — NashvillePost.com has learned that senior campaign officials from the Barack Obama Presidential campaign are being dispatched from various locations around the country …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
FREE ADVICE, WORTH EVERY PENNY — Don't ever demand someone stop attacking you. Doesn't work. Don't do it. Sounds weak. Sounds pathetic. And a lot else. — Look at John McCain attacking my patriotism. It's sad what he's become. He'll do anything to get elected. Attack my patriotism.
Ali / Think Progress:
McCain On Reinstituting A Military Draft: 'I Don't Disagree' — Today at a townhall meeting, an audience member praised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his vow to “follow bin Laden to the gates of hell.” After a long question about veterans' care, the questioner said she believed we needed …
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National Enquirer:
JOHN EDWARDS BLOCKBUSTER NEW EXPOSE! — The NATIONAL ENQUIRER's exclusive ongoing investigation uncovers shocking new revelations about The John Edwards Scandal! — The day prior to Edwards bombshell admission to an affair on ABC's Nightline, Rielle Hunter and her 6 month old daughter …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Risk of the Zinger — It was February 2006 in Munich, and John McCain's eyes were flashing with the mischievous spark that comes when he's about to fire a verbal rocket. “I've got a zinger coming,” he told me, referring to a speech on Russia he would give a few hours later at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy.
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Obama Adviser Offers Some Advice to Damascus — Daniel Kurtzer Says Israel-Syria Negotiations Should Be Moved Along — WASHINGTON — The next president, whether Republican or Democrat, will make a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement a priority only if the two sides, meeting now in Turkey …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama Looking to Diminish Superdelegates — Barack Obama's campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012 with a goal of reducing the power of superdelegates, whose role became a major point of contention during …
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Two Women Sentenced to ‘Re-education’ in China — BEIJING — Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of “re-education through labor” after they repeatedly sought a permit to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest areas, according to family members and human rights advocates.
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