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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%.
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.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
8 Questions Super Tuesday Could Answer  —  Will Either Race End Today?  —  1) Democratic strategist Bill Carrick put it best: “To paraphrase Churchill,” he wrote in an e-mail, “the Democrats are at the end of the beginning and the Republicans are at the beginning of the end.”
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Super Delegates To Determine Nominee
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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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Limbaugh on McCain: It's Better to Be Right All the Time  —  It may be the best sideshow in presidential politics: the nation's top radio talker trying to take down the Republican front-runner in today's Super Tuesday showdown.  —  Rush Limbaugh has been relentless in his criticism of John McCain …
John McCain / You Decide 08!:
BOB DOLE DEFENDS JOHN MCCAIN IN LETTER TO RUSH LIMBAUGH
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Limbaugh's McCain Derangement Syndrome
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Super Tuesday Viewer's Guide  —  Tonight promises an embarrassment of riches for political junkies.  With 24 states holding either a Democratic or Republican vote for president, there is — dare we say it! — too much to read and watch.  —  As always, The Fix aims to cut through the clutter for our community of readers.
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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.
Bruce Fein / Washington Times:
Power of the purse purloined?  —  Jan. 28, 2008, is a date that will live in congressional infamy.  Congress surrendered the power of the purse over national security affairs to the White House.  —  President Bush appended a signing statement to the National Defense Authorization Act …
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.
Discussion: Iddybud Journal
John R. Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Our Politicized Intelligence Services  —  Today, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee (and Thursday on the House side) to give the intelligence community's annual global threat analysis.  These hearings are always significant …
Marc Ambinder:
Delegates In California: A Caution  —  If, in many congressional districts in California, a Democrat does not receive more than 62% of the vote, he or she will receive the same number of delegates from that CD as the he or she who finishes second.  (Only Clinton and Obama will earn viability — above 15% in those CDs.)
Discussion: D-Day, Cogitamus and Calitics
Andy Worthington:
Afghan who died at Guantánamo was anti-Taliban hero  —  Today the New York Times runs an exclusive front page article by Carlotta Gall and myself, Time Runs Out for an Afghan Held by the U.S., exposing the bitter truth about Abdul Razzaq Hekmati, a 68-year old detainee who died of cancer …
Reuters:
Ex-Bush aide Rove to join Fox News Channel  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Karl Rove, the strategist behind President George W. Bush's ascendancy to the White House, will join Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel as a contributor starting with Super Tuesday, the network said.
Discussion: Political Machine
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.
 
 
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