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10:35 AM ET, July 23, 2007

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Washington Post:
Poll Shows Clinton With Solid Lead Among Democrats  —  By a wide margin, Democrats view Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) as the party's candidate best positioned to win the general election, and she holds a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the race for the nomination, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll.
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Quinnipiac University News and Events:
July 23, 2007 - Bloomberg Boosts Democrats' Fortunes In Florida, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; McCain Fades In Republican Primary Race  —  If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg runs for President as an independent candidate, it helps Democrats in Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama solicits La Raza backing  —  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Sen. Barack Obama told the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year's May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard.
Discussion: MSNBC and PoliPundit.com
Bill Schneider / CNN:   For Clinton, debate could turn into 7 against 1
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Officially the First, Democrats' Debate Feels Like Anything But
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Politico Playbook: First date  —  Good Monday Morning.  —  YOU were the TIME person of the year (great resume fodder) and now YOU (or some of you, at least) get to help out host Anderson Cooper and electronically ask the Democratic candidates questions during the two-hour CNN/YouTube debate at 7 Eastern tonight.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Democrats Press House to Expand Health Care Bill  —  After a rare bipartisan agreement in the Senate to expand insurance coverage for low-income children, House Democrats have drafted an even broader plan that also calls for major changes in Medicare and promises to intensify the battle with the White House over health care.
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   An Unusually Effective Minority
Sarah Cohen / Washington Post:
Deceased Farmers Got USDA Payments  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.
Little Green Footballs:
KILLITARY: Lefties Dropping the Fiction of 'Supporting the Troops'  —  The leftist blogosphere went out of their way to cover this one up as quickly as possible.  —  It was posted at Daily Kos, as Ace relates.  But the Kidz are on edge about their credibility, so it was deleted within hours, without a word of explanation.
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:   That Deleted Daily Kos Post About Our Government-Issue Psychopaths, Discovered
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
TV provides poor signal for Hillary  —  When Hollywood producer Rod Lurie created fictional president Mackenzie Allen in 2005 for the show "Commander in Chief" he made no mistake about one of his goals: tilling the soil of popular culture so that it would soon be easier for a real woman to take root in a nonfiction Oval Office.
Reuters:
U.N. suspends peacekeepers amid sex abuse charges  —  ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire (Reuters) — The United Nations said on Saturday it had suspended a Moroccan military contingent from its peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire while it investigated allegations of widespread sexual abuse.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Unlikely Adversary Arises to Criticize Detainee Hearings  —  NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Stephen E. Abraham's assignment to the Pentagon unit that runs the hearings at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, seemed a perfect fit.  —  A lawyer in civilian life, he had been decorated for counterespionage …
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Lead By $100 Million In Money Race  —  WASHINGTON — With more than a year to go before the 2008 elections, Democratic candidates have raised $100 million more in campaign contributions than Republicans, putting them on track to win the money race for the White House and Congress …
Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks  —  Sickened by the group's barbarity, Iraqi insurgents are giving information to coalition forces  —  Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person's face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda …
Susan Goldsmith / Oregonian:
Unruly schoolboys or sex offenders?  —  The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran — what some kids later said was a common form of greeting.  —  But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools.
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Rasmussen Reports:
Associated Press, MSNBC and CNBC Seen as Having Liberal Bias  —  In the final poll of a series measuring perceptions of media bias, the Associated Press, local television stations, MSNBC, and CNBC are all perceived as tilting to the left when reporting the news.
Discussion: Don Surber
 
 
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Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:
Small donors playing bigger role in campaigns
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Journalist Chosen to Lead a Public Policy Institute
Claire Brinberg / CNN:
Democratic trying to reach religious voters
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
Three sisters stabbed to death in Gaza 'honor killing'
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Nellie Andreeva / Hollywood Reporter:
Jones moves into '24' Oval Office
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Muscling a Web Site Into a Social Movement
City Journal:
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ABCNEWS:
Natl. Intel Director Worried About Terror Sleeper Cells in U.S.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
William S. Lind / The American Conservative:
How to Win in Iraq  —  A stable Iraqi state would constitute …
John Bynorth / Scotland Sunday Herald:
BBC apologises in row over 'mistake' in SNP survey
Discussion: Biased BBC
Jamie Doward / Observer:
Alarm at US right to highly personal data
Discussion: Corrente and News Bloggers
Joel Brinkley / San Francisco Chronicle:
WANING INFLUENCE  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds that her star is fading
Discussion: Corrente and FRAMESHOP
Guardian:
All the rage - victim of US bloggers' cartoon hits back
Siun / Firedoglake:
Focus Groups Anyone?
Discussion: Brian Beutler and The Agonist
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War