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11:15 AM ET, February 5, 2008

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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: McCain Dominates GOP Races; Dems Locked in Tight Contests As Super Tuesday Polls Open  —  UTICA, New York - The final day of polling before Super Tuesday was one of hardening positions in key races across the country, the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby survey work shows.
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Election Projection:
Super-Duper-Mega-Jumbo Tuesday predictions and results  —  We have arrived at the biggest day in the history of primaries.  Almost half of these United States are conducting their primaries or caucuses today.  Over 1000 delegates are at stake on the Republican side and twice that are being contested on the Democratic side.
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.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
8 Questions Super Tuesday Could Answer
Josh Gerstein / Latest Politics:
Limbaugh Defends Clinton and Obama on Iraq  —  Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is so exasperated about Senator McCain's surge in the Republican presidential contest that he is coming to the defense of Senators Clinton and Obama.  —  On Mr. Limbaugh's program today, he said people should not be rushing …
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Byron York / The Corner:
Mitt: Get Out of Here, Bob.  Mac: How Dare You  —  In the aftermath of Bob Dole's letter to Rush Limbaugh defending John McCain, a full-scale sniping war has broken out between the Romney and McCain campaigns.  First Romney dissed Dole this morning on Fox News:
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Cooper Concerns  —  I'm not a Hillary-hater.  She's been an outstanding senator.  She hung tough on Iraq through the dark days of 2005.  In this campaign, she has soldiered on bravely even though she has most of the elected Democrats, news media and the educated class rooting against her.
Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Stimulus’ Deficit  —  If you want to know the real cost of Washington's economic stimulus, look no further than yesterday's Fiscal 2009 White House budget.  The federal deficit is taking a giant leap backward, thanks in substantial part to the $150 billion in “temporary” tax cuts.
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Bush's Final Budget Hints at Tough Choices Ahead
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE POLLS  —  There's one guarantee I can make right now about tonight's results.  They are going take make either Zogby or SurveyUSA look like complete fools.  Which one I'm not completely sure, but definitely one of them.  —  Consider this spread.  Zogby has his final California number as Obama 49%, Clinton 36%.
Discussion: The Sideshow
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 …
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Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Tough-guy De Niro a softy for Obama
Discussion: Associated Press
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Picking up, putting aside the poor  —  Some political moments are so bizarre that you have to believe they actually are sincere.  —  One such moment came this weekend, when Barack Obama mocked John Edwards in a speech.  —  Obama had done it before, but that was before Edwards suspended his campaign last Wednesday.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
What's Really in the U.S. Military Budget?  —  MUCH MORE THAN THE OFT-CITED $515.4 BILLION.  —  It's time for our annual game: How much is really in the U.S. military budget?  —  As usual, it's about $200 billion more than most news stories are reporting.
Tom Donnelly / Weekly Standard:
Dissonance on Iraq  —  Cartoonish views of the war.  —  CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS it that, unlike in Vietnam, there is bipartisan support for “the troops” in Iraq despite the many arguments over the conduct of the war and whether U.S. forces should remain in Mesopotamia.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Redstate
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Marinating in ‘Decline’  —  In 1788, Massachusetts playwright Mercy Otis Warren took one look at the (unratified) U.S. Constitution and declared that “we shall soon see this country rushing into the extremes of confusion and violence.”  This, roughly, is the origin of American declinism — and it's been downhill ever since.
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Economy Fitful, Americans Start to Pay as They Go  —  For more than half a century, Americans have proved staggeringly resourceful at finding new ways to spend money.  —  In the 1950s and '60s, as credit cards grew in popularity, many began dining out when the mood struck or buying …
Discussion: ParaPundit and Calculated Risk
Carolyn Jones / San Francisco Chronicle:
In Berkeley, push to rescind letter to Marines  —  (02-04) 18:52 PST Berkeley — A week after blasting the Marines as “unwelcome intruders” in Berkeley, two City Council members want the city to back off the declaration that ignited the wrath of the nation's right wing and inspired …
 
 
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No public funds for McCain
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Media Matters for America:
Savage: “America's not ready for an affirmative action presidency”
Washington Post:
Clinton, Obama Turn Focus To Area's Feb. 12 Contests
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
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Rolling Stone:
Mellencamp Asks McCain to Stop Using Tunes
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CNN:
Obama the choice of Democrats in Indonesia
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City Journal:
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