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1:55 AM ET, February 5, 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.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Reaching Out To Rush?  —  UPDATE, 6:35 pm: The Romney campaign …
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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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.
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Super Delegates To Determine Nominee  —  It can no longer be avoided: super delegates will determine the Democratic Presidential nominee this year.  Here is the current situation:  — With Michigan and Florida removed from the equation, 2,025 delegates are required to win the nomination, and there are 3,253 pledged delegates.
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.
New York Times:
Time Runs Out for an Afghan Held by the U.S.  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison break he organized for three opponents of the Taliban government in 1999.
Discussion: Think Progress and Obsidian Wings
Crystal Patterson / Hillary Clinton for President:
Actor Jack Nicholson Endorses Hillary for President  —  In a surprise announcement on this morning's Rick Dees show, Oscar-winning actor Jack Nicholson endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.  —  “Mrs. Clinton has been involved in issues, everything from health care, which we know and prison reform …
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
The sun'll not come out tomorrow  —  On the eve of Super Duper Tuesday, conservatives in this great republic could do with some pepping up.  Instead, this turned up in my in-box: … Gulp.  Anything else? … In a less apocalyptic sense, a spell out of power can do a party good if you get the timing right.
Discussion: Zorro
Ari Melber / The Politico:
Winning Dem holds key to new strategy  —  The Super Tuesday elections could answer the core political question that vexes Democrats.  —  Does the public rejection of Bush conservatism offer a rare opportunity for Democrats to run an outsider who can recruit new supporters and score a decisive victory?
City Journal:
Bizarre Bedfellows for Barack  —  On the eve of Super Tuesday, the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama race resembles the closing minutes of a football game: Team Clinton has a small lead, but Team Obama has the ball—and the momentum.  Some of that momentum derives from an extraordinary, if unspoken …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Eunomia
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 …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton's January: $13.5 million  —  That's from campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe on MSNBC today: … A lot of money by most measures, but less than half of what Obama's claiming for the month.
Discussion: MyDD and Political Machine
 
 
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Richard T. Cullen / The Politico:
Utah's Mormons loathe Huckabee
Discussion: race42008.com
Townhall.com:
Romney's Chances
Al Giordano / The Field:
The Man from Tennessee
Deborah Burger / The Huffington Post:
A Message to Sen. Clinton …
John O'Sullivan / The Corner:
Questioning McCain  —  In the debates on and outside “The Corner” …
Discussion: ParaPundit
 Earlier Items: 
Marc Ambinder:
Feb 5 Projections: Revised
Discussion: MyDD, Spin Cycle and AMERICAblog
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Before the Big Day...  I resist predictions, as all sane people …
Tony Allen-Mills / Times of London:
Flawed Cindy McCain has a grudge list
Alex Joseph / Slate:
Confessions of a Young Hillary Supporter
Discussion: Power Line
Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
A STRIKE IN THE DARK  —  What did Israel bomb in Syria?
Little Green Footballs:
Muslims Enraged, Seething at Wikipedia
Discussion: Wake up America
Mickey Kaus / Slate:
A Reason to Vote Hillary
Discussion: The New Republic
Michael J. Totten:
The Final Mission, Part II
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast plans to launch StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly reduced price”

Sarah Basford Canales / The Guardian:
An Australian court sentences ex-army lawyer David McBride to five years and eight months for stealing Afghanistan war docs and leaking them to Australia's ABC

 
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