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2:40 PM ET, February 15, 2008

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Rasmussen Reports:
Texas Democratic Presidential Primary  —  Texas: Clinton 54% Obama 38%  —  When Election 2008 began, long before the first votes were cast, Senator Hillary Clinton led in the national polls but trailed Barack Obama in the key state of Iowa.  Many remarked upon the difference between those national and state numbers.
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Texas Politics:
Credit Union poll shows Clinton leading in Texas; McCain only slightly ahead of Huckabee  —  The Texas Credit Union League polled the Texas Democratic and Republican primaries and found Hillary Clinton holding a lead over Barack Obama on the Democratic side and John McCain slightly ahead …
Karl-Thomas Musselman / Burnt Orange Report:
Clinton Up 49-41 in Texas Poll; Obama May Win More Delegates
Discussion: Booman Tribune and AMERICAblog
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
WON'T GO THERE  —  In the thick of a campaign it is easy to overrate the importance of an endorsement or a political hit.  But it is difficult to overstate the significance of John Lewis' switch from the Clinton to Obama camps because it is a devastating blow on two or three levels wrapped together in a single person.
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Rep. Lewis: Report of delegate switch to Obama ‘not accurate’  —  A story in Friday New York Times that said U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was going to back Barack Obama for president is inaccurate, a spokeswoman for the former civil rights leader told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this morning.
New York Times:
Black Leader, a Clinton Ally, Tilts to Obama
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: CAMPAIGNS VS. PRESIDENTS
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Matthews Calls Clinton Press Shop “Lousy”, “Kneecappers”  —  Chris Matthews fired a salvo at the Clinton campaign this morning after both he and his MSNBC colleague were privately and publicly rebuked for recent comments deemed misogynistic or inappropriate.
Discussion: Horses Mouth, Taylor Marsh and TalkLeft
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Chris Matthews' Next Apology Coming In 5, 4, 3, 2 ....  Chris Matthews has spent the primary cycle alternately opining and apologizing for his remarks about Hillary Clinton.  It looks like he may have either tired of the cycle, or wants another round of YouTubed capitulation to make the blogospheric rounds.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
The Clintons' Beef With the Media  —  Are the news media being beastly to Hillary Clinton?  Are political reporters and commentators — as Bill Clinton suggested but didn't quite come out and say in a radio interview Tuesday — basically in the tank for Barack Obama?
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
A GOOD CAMPAIGN.  —  For the record, I agree with Isaac Chotiner …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
About That Experience...  Hillary Clinton has tried to sell herself …
Guardian:
BAE: papers reveal Saudi threats  —  Spectre of ‘another 7/7’ led Tony Blair to block bribes inquiry, high court told  —  Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Saudis threaten to unleash jihadists if the UK doesn't back off …
Discussion: Guardian and Jihad Watch
New York Times:
Waxman Regrets Hearing Was Held  —  WASHINGTON — A day after a dramatic, nationally televised hearing that pitted Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer and Democrats against Republicans, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Thursday …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Jihadis throw a wild bash over the Protect America Act  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  What can one even say about this quote, included in Carl Hulse's NYT article on the Democrats' refusal yesterday to pass the Senate's FISA bill before expiration of the Protect America Act:
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Christine Pelosi: Superdelegates Should Not Overturn Majority Dem.  Vote  —  Christine Pelosi, daughter of the Speaker and (more notably at the moment) a superdelegate, warns of a massive disillusionment of voters should Democratic Party officials back a presidential nominee that didn't win the pledged delegate vote.
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Newt Gingrich / Wall Street Journal:
Let's Revote in Michigan and Florida
Discussion: The Opinionator
Josephine Hearn / The Politico:
White men hold superdelegate power balance  —  In an ironic twist to the historic Democratic nominating contest between an African American and a woman, the balance of power may be held by a more familiar face: the white male.  —  According to a Politico analysis, close to half …
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
McCain-Obama Race Could Redraw Electoral Map
Discussion: TIME, The Caucus and American Power
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton Camp May Regret Largely Turning Its Back on Caucus States  —  Among the costliest decisions Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has made this year was to largely cede caucus states to Barack Obama.  It is one that, in retrospect, baffles Democratic strategists and, even more so, the operatives on Obama's team.
Gateway Pundit:
RIOTS IN DENMARK!  Muslim Youths Go On Torching Rampage  —  Rioting in Denmark!  —  “Immigrant” youths are torching cars and schools.  —  An elementary school was torched in the violence.  —  A fireman tries to put out a fire at Vaerebro elementary school that was set alight by demonstrators …
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Brian C. Ledbetter / snapped shot:
rage boy sighting!!!!!! anti-denmark day of rage; now worldwide!
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Confidence or Derangement?  —  “This is death by a thousand cuts.”  That's what they keep saying about Hillary Clinton.  —  Think of what this week was for her.  She awoke each day having to absorb new sentences in a paragraph of woe:  —  Three more primary losses, not even close.
Associated Press:
Mao offered U.S. 10 million women  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid a discussion of trade in 1973, Chinese leader Mao Zedong made what U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called a novel proposition: sending tens of thousands, even 10 million, Chinese women to the United States.
Discussion: The Corner
Timothy J. Burger / Bloomberg:
Obama's Chicago Ties Might Fuel ‘Republican Attack Machine’  —  Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Hillary Clinton questions whether Barack Obama would be able to withstand what she calls the “Republican attack machine.”  If Obama does become the Democratic presidential nominee, his Chicago ties might provide the fuel.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, Spin Cycle and TIME
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
How the Candidates Differ On Immigration  —  The Center for International Policy, a group whose mission is “promoting a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights,” has released two reports in the past month comparing the positions …
 
 
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Obama Up 5 In WI
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
Atrios / Eschaton:
Grover Gets It  —  Along these lines, it's worth remember …
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Both sides dig in on FISA fight
Discussion: The Swamp
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
TELECOM IMMUNITY....I mentioned yesterday that although …
Discussion: The New Republic
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Crowd destroys deputy's cruiser
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Putin vs. Clinton
Discussion: Associated Press and GINA COBB
Ben Pershing / Capitol Briefing:
GOP's Earmarks Crusade Has its Limits
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Opacity Of Obama  —  Barack Obama may find that overpromising …
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Christine MacDonald / Detroit News:
Report says Monica Conyers made threat
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
Keith Olbermann / MSNBC:
A veto of the FISA bill endangers Americans
David Brooks / New York Times:
Fresh Start Conservatism
Discussion: Will Wilkinson
Charles Hurt / New York Post:
‘MCCAIN & MCSAME’ TICKET TALK
Discussion: Hot Air
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Fighter dispute hits stratosphere
Matthew Yglesias:
More FISA, Less Sarcasm
Discussion: Eschaton and Daily Kos
Mike Allen / The Politico:
George H.W. Bush to endorse McCain
Peter Urban / The Connecticut Post Online:
Lieberman says some waterboarding OK