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Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
U.S. Secret Service on Way to Biden's House; Kaine and Bayh Told Nope on Veep — The United States Secret Service has dispatched a protective detail to assume the immediate protection of Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., a source tells ABC News, indicating in all likelihood that Biden …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Hillary gets stiffed — There's one Democrat who would seem to have little or no chance of being picked by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to be his running mate - his former opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). — But it's not for the reason you think.
KMBC Kansas City's Channel 9:
Bumper Sticker Could Indicate Bayh Is Obama's Veep — LENEXA, Kan. — After weeks of speculation and days of intense rumors, the answer to who Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would name as his running mate may have come down to a bumper sticker printed in Lenexa.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Field Narrows for Obama's Running Mate — WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama informed two of his top three vice-presidential prospects Friday night that he would not be choosing them, Democratic officials said, encouraging a consensus within the party that he had settled on Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.
Mark S. Geiger / CNN:
Source: Clinton has been told she's not the VP pick — (CNN) - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama has ruled out Senator Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate, a senior Democratic official told CNN on Friday night.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
NBC: KAINE, BAYH TOLD THEY'RE NOT IT — From NBC's Andrea Mitchell — As reported in her Nightly News spot, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, according to sources, were told they're out of the running. — From the First Read team, just asking, so which news organization …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:VP updates: Kansas printer does Bayh stickers but a private jet …
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:Obama is hours away from naming running mate
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August J. Pollak / Some Guy With a Website:I'm sorry. — Obama Names Musician Rick Astley as Running Mate
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:Text hoaxes plague Obama VP plan
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Marc Ambinder:
Fun With FlightAware: What's This Flight? — http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ EJA863 — A flight from Midway to New Castle, DE... to pick someone up? Who knows? No other flights from anywhere in and around Chicago to anywhere in and around Delaware... or vice versa. Just this charter.
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CNN:
Activity at the Bidens — (CNN) — After hours staking out Joe Biden's Delaware home with no sign of the prospective VP candidate, reporters are now witnessing a flurry of activity. — Cars have recently pulled into the driveway — including a police car — and Biden's daughter, son, and wife are now believed to be inside.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Illinois releasing Barack Obama's records — DENVER — As the Democratic Party prepares to unleash its presidential nominating convention here, the University of Illinois at Chicago said today that it will release records of Sen. Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit organization linked to William Ayers …
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Think Progress:
Fox News Accidentally Airs Controversial Right-Wing Ad That It Had Declined To Run — The right-wing American Issues Project has spent $2.8 million on an ad questioning Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) relationship to William Ayers, a founder of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground.
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:University of Illinois to release Obama records
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Wait Til America Gets to Know JILL BIDEN — I had the opportunity a few years ago to enjoy a rolling set of events with Senator Joe Biden, Wes Clark and other national notables. — My partner was with me and normally hates these kinds of things. But he bonded with Jill Biden.
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama Picks Sen. Joe Biden — This is a formidable ticket, and a risky ticket, and not a comfort zone choice for Obama. — Put aside the obvious: Biden has foreign policy meat on his bones...He's a great debater... he has a working-class Scranton-bred Irish-Catholic heritage …
Fox News:
Obama Stops Advertising in Red Battleground States — Barack Obama's presidential campaign has put the brakes on ads that were running in seven states carried by the GOP in the 2004 presidential election, FOX News has learned. — Of the seven states — including Alaska, Georgia, Montana …
Michael Goldfarb / John McCain Report blog:
Obama's Convention Bounce — FROM: Sarah Simmons, Director of Strategy — Monday marks the beginning of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. A combination of factors makes this particular convention historic on many levels. Democrats have just completed an incredibly compelling primary cycle …
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Fred Barbash / Yahoo! News:
Obama's striptease may be risky — Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama — In dragging out the announcement of his vice-presidential nominee to almost the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has at once demonstrated his willingness to defy conventional political expectations …
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
A Timetable By Any Other Name — In agreeing to pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraqi cities by June, and from the rest of the country by 2011, President Bush has apparently consented to precisely the kind of timetable that, when Democrats called for one, he dismissed as “setting a date for failure.”
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Laurin Manning / Barack Obama:Statement of Senator Barack Obama on Reports that U.S. and Iraq …
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Barack Obama Inspires New Handbag — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama inspired celebrity handbag designer Timmy Woods to create a handbag based on the signs used by his campaign at rallies and speeches. — The first Obama Handbag will be given to the senator's wife, Michelle.
Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
Thoughts on the State of the Race — With Barack Obama about to make his vice-presidential selection, the general election is finally set to begin. Thus ends the middle period between the nomination campaign and the general election campaign. I would like to offer some reflections …
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