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12:35 AM ET, February 4, 2008

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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama's Super Bowl Ad: ‘Join’  —  WILMINGTON, Del. - While Senator Barack Obama watches the Super Bowl tonight at home in Chicago, television viewers in 24 states will be able to watch him.  —  A week ago, Mr. Obama's campaign decided to purchase TV advertising in local markets for the Super Bowl.
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CBS News:
CBS Poll: Clinton, Obama Tied  —  McCain Has Big Lead Among Republicans; Also, Most Americans Think Economy Is In Recession  —  (CBS) With only one full day remaining before voters in more than 20 states head to the polls on Super Tuesday, the races for the Democratic and Republican nominations …
Discussion: The RBC and Liberal Values
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on daily polling from Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Two days before the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, Gallup Poll Daily tracking data show Hillary Clinton (46%) and Barack Obama (44%) in a statistical dead heat …
The Corner:
Boasting in Boston  —  I am so confident of both a Patriots win today and a Romney win in Massachusetts on Tuesday that I made this pledge on the air Friday: “If the NY Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl, I will vote cast my Super Duper Tuesday primary vote for (shudder) John McCain.”
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John Woods / The Fifth Down:
Game Over: Giants 17, Patriots 14
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Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: Pro-Clinton push poll erupts in California  —  Ed Coghlan was just starting to prepare his dinner in the northern San Fernando Valley the other night when the phone rang.  The caller was very friendly.  He identified himself as a pollster who wanted to ask registered independents …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
BULLETIN: California's First Lady Maria Shriver Endorses Barack Obama (UPDATED)  —  California's first lady Maria Shriver has just appeared as a special surprise guest at the rally for Barack Obama in Los Angeles to endorse him for President.  It was aired live on CSPAN.  —  “I wasn't on the schedule,” she said.
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Scott Martelle / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: Maria Shriver endorses Barack Obama  —  In a dramatic moment at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, California First Lady Maria Shriver just strode out onto a stage that had already seen its share of celebrities — Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder among them — and announced that she was joining …
Mike Tackett / The Swamp:
Oprah, Stevie Wonder, Maria Shriver pitch Obama
Discussion: The Politico
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The Latest on Gore  —  According to a source close to Al Gore, multiple people in the former VP's orbit are in touch with him on a regular basis to urge an Obama endorsement.  According to this source, Gore's hesitation is three-fold:  —  1.)  The memory of the ill-fated Dean endorsement looms large for him.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Bill Quick / Daily Pundit:
john mccain: the list of infamy  —  Every time I post something about the problem for liberty-minded conservatives with the direction the Republican Party has been taking since the first George Bush administration, I get a lot of pushback that can generally be divided into two types.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Santorum, Romney camp raise McCain temper  —  Rick Santorum, one of Mitt Romney's new, he-can-stop-McCain supporters, has recorded a tough robo-call for his candidate, raising the issue of the Arizona senator's temper.  —  “As a conservative I don't agree with McCain on many issues …
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Steve Stone / Virginian-Pilot:
Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store  —  Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
I'm not watching the Superbowl.  —  Sorry, I just don't care.  Except I heard that one team cheated.  So I hope the other team wins.  I did just hear Arlen Specter on C-Span radio talking about how Congress ought to investigate that cheating team because football is so important to America.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Pentagon Seeks Record Level in 2009 Budget  —  WASHINGTON — As Congress and the public focus on more than $600 billion already approved in supplemental budgets to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for counterterrorism operations, the Bush administration has with little notice reached a landmark in military spending.
Discussion: The Agonist
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Arizona GOP Presidential Primary  —  Arizona: McCain 43% Romney 34%  —  In his home state of Arizona, John McCain leads Mitt Romney by nine percentage points.  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found McCain earning 43% of the vote while Romney attracts 34%.
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Ross Douthat:
A Romney Comeback?  —  Not likely.  But neither is Hugh Hewitt being delusional when he throws out Rasmussen numbers showing Romney gaining in places like Tennessee and Missouri, California and Georgia.  So far, the Republican primary campaign has demonstrated fairly emphatically …
 
 
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