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12:40 PM ET, February 5, 2008

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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
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 …
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:
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Hot Air
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
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.
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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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 …
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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John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
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The U.N. Deception: What Exactly Colin Powell Knew Five Years Ago …
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Dissonance on Iraq  —  Cartoonish views of the war.
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