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9:35 PM ET, February 4, 2008

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dole scolds Limbaugh  —  Bob Dole, the former Senate Republican leader, wrote an insistent letter to Rush Limbaugh on Monday and suggested that for the good of the party, the conservative talk-show host should stop his strafing of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
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CNN:
In letter to Limbaugh, Bob Dole defends McCain  —  BOSTON (CNN) — Former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole on Monday wrote conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh defending John McCain as a “mainstream conservative” who had supported the party on critical votes during Dole's time as the Senate Republican leader.
Tony Allen-Mills / Times of London:
Flawed Cindy McCain has a grudge list
Discussion: Truthdig and protein wisdom
Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:   Bob Dole weighs in on McCain as a conservative
Jason George / The Swamp:
Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.  —  Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up …
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New York Magazine:
Breaking: Hillary Reemploys ‘The Cry’  —  Yep, it's official.  Hillary Clinton is running to be Crybaby-in-Chief.  According to the Tribune Co.'s politics blog, the Swamp, Clinton teared up after a heartfelt introduction by a former colleague at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, where she worked in college.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Republicans have become the credibility-free party  —  (updated below)  —  Substantial attention has been paid to the historic unpopularity of the Bush presidency, but relatively little attention has been paid to the accompanying collapse of the Republican Party's credibility.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on daily polling from Feb. 1-Feb. 3, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — On the eve of the Super Tuesday election, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain closely matched in national Democratic voters' nomination preferences.
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Before the Big Day...  I resist predictions, as all sane people should after the New Hampshire primary, but I felt compelled to make a few observations before the Big Day.  —  GOP:  —  1) John McCain has another good night.  —  Democrats:  —  1) It will be a draw between Hillary and Barack, deciding little.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Obama erases Clinton's lead
Josh Patashnik / The New Republic:
Vote McCain—Because Life Expectancy Is Going Up  —  The McCain campaign must be pretty spooked about conservative reaction to the story that their man isn't a full-throated Sam Alito fan.  Today the campaign sent out an email to supporters trumpeting this Wall Street Journal op-ed …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Pat Doyle / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Clinton speaks to crowd of 4,000 in Minneapolis  —  Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to a full house during her campaign stop at Augsburg College in Minneapolis Sunday afternoon.  She signed autographs after her speech.  —  She called on 4,000 at Augsburg to help nation's economy work for all.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Ben Smith / The Politico:   Empty seats
Little Green Footballs:
Muslims Enraged, Seething at Wikipedia  —  Apparently there are a whole lot of Muslims enraged and offended at Wikipedia, because there are ... gasp ... drawings and images of Mohammed in his Wikipedia entry.  —  Blasphemy!  —  So they're demanding that Wikipedia stop violating …
Discussion: Wake up America
Marc Ambinder:
Plouffe Memo: We're The Giants, Baby  —  (not in so many words...despite or because of polls showing that Obama is now leading or tied with Hillary Clinton nationally.). … I'm sorry.  Hold up, time out.  What??  Unless every Obama adviser I've spoken to over the past year has out and out lied to me …
CNN:
FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping  —  CLARKSBURG, West Virginia (CNN) — The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
A STRIKE IN THE DARK  —  What did Israel bomb in Syria?  —  Israel and the U.S. have avoided comment on press reports about a nuclear facility.  —  Sometime after midnight on September 6, 2007, at least four low-flying Israeli Air Force fighters crossed into Syrian airspace and carried …
Marc Ambinder:
Feb 5 Projections: Revised  —  According to campaign sources, polling and stealing off other analysts, Hillary Clinton has an edge in New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas.  —  Obama has an edge in Idaho, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Dakota and Illinois.
Discussion: Spin Cycle and AMERICAblog
Daniel J. Chacon / Rocky Mountain News:
DNC boost for sex biz  —  Denver can expect prostitution spike during convention  —  Political tricks may not be the only ones turned during the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August.  —  The sex and adult entertainment industries are expecting a boom in business …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
 
 
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Civil Rights leaders press Dean on delegates
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