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Another split decision in Democratic race — (CNN) — Despite Hillary Clinton's landslide victory in Kentucky, Barack Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates in the race for the Democratic nomination. — Clinton won Kentucky by more than 30 points, but Obama's share of the state's 51 delegates …
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New York Times:
Obama Declares Bid ‘Within Reach’ — Senator Barack Obama took a big step toward becoming the Democratic presidential nominee on Tuesday, amassing enough additional delegates to claim an all but insurmountable advantage in his race against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Sam Graham-Felsen / Barack Obama:
Senator Obama's Remarks from Des Moines, Iowa — Senator Obama delivered these remarks (as prepared) from Des Moines, Iowa... If you're inspired — if you're ready to build this movement and change America — make a donation today. We can change the world.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Sees Many Reasons to Stay In — Rebuffing associates who have suggested that she end her candidacy, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has made it clear to her camp in recent days that she will stay in the race until June because she believes she can still be the nominee — and …
Marc Ambinder:Why Are Superdelegates Waiting? — Clinton talking point …
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Matthew Yglesias:McCainiacs for Clinton — Well, as predicted Obama won Oregon …
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:Exit poll: Whites back Clinton strongly in KY
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Money shocker! Hillary Clinton's campaign debt soars to $31 million — No wonder Sen. Hillary Clinton was so late filing her required campaign financial reports Tuesday night. Her political team didn't want the shocking news in it to overshadow her lopsided thumping of Sen. Barack Obama in Kentucky.
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
AWESOME NEW CLINTONIAN BULLS**T- BREAKING FAST — Lisa Caputo, one of the Clinton hacks on MSNBC tonight, just claimed (fraudulently) that Hillary had the popular vote but was behind in the delegate math, and that this felt like “Al Gore in 2000 when it had to go to the Supreme Court.”
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:TERRY'S NEW GOALPOSTS — If I'm not mistaken Terrry McAuliffe …
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Sara Just / Political Radar:McCain Has Record Fundraising Month
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Robert Knight / NewsBusters.org:
Free Concert by Popular Band Preceded Obama's Big Rally — From CNN to the New York Times, the media hyped Barack Obama's Portland, Oregon rally on Sunday, some comparing him to a rock star. — Unmentioned in national reporting was the fact that Obama was preceded by a rare …
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
We've Been Had — This was Obama's rally in Oregon over the weekend, which saw 75,000 people gather on the waterfront, on a sunny summer day, to hear the great one speak. Or did they? The headline in the New York Times was “Obama Draws Huge Crowd in Oregon.” So they must have been there to see Obama, right?
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:Obama's Decemberists — Turns out that Obama's opening act …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Chuck Hagel Takes On McCain, Repeatedly Praises Obama — Chuck Hagel is quickly becoming Barack Obama's answer to Joe Lieberman. — The Republican Senator from Nebraska was a political thorn in McCain's side on Tuesday night, repeatedly lavishing praise on the presumptive Democratic candidate …
Gizmodo:
Flying RC Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech — We had to double check that this wasn't a story about Second Life, but rather is an actual event in actual meatspace occurring this past weekend in Moscow. As former chess champion Garry Kasparov was giving a speech to unite opposition political forces …
Joseph Lieberman / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats and Our Enemies — How did the Democratic Party get here? How did the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core of its identity and its purpose?
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Last Debate — “What do you want? Please, Sweetie, would you just tell me what you want?” — “Don't Sweetie me, Twiggy. You know what I want.” — “Besides that, Hillary. Seriously, you don't want your delusion to put John McCain in the White House. Or maybe you do. You have no shot.
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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
More than just financing Bush Wars... The Chinese are apparently taking a supervisory role in overseeing their investment. … Ms. Manning are you forgetting who the President and Vice-President are? Sadly, it's par for the course. — This occurred during the period …
Ginn / DBKP:
UK PC Criminal: 15-Yr-Old Youth Who Called Scientology a Cult — If there's any doubt that the enforcement of political correctness in the U.K. is turning ordinary citizens into criminals, a 15-yr-old youth was issued a criminal summons after he had written on a sign that Scientology was a cult.
Noah Pollak / Commentary:
McCain Is Losing the Iran Debate — Two thoughts on the Obama-Iran-appeasement controversy: — 1. It seems to me that it's a victory for Obama. The Iran debate is being defined as one of diplomatic engagement versus diplomatic isolation, with Obama presenting himself as the bearer …
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