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6:40 AM ET, February 22, 2008

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CNN:
The CNN Democratic presidential debate in Texas  —  This is the transcript of the debate between Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on February 21, 2008 at the University of Texas in Austin.  —  CNN's CAMPBELL BROWN: And the candidates have taken their seats.
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Marc Ambinder:
First Take: The Debate Belongs To Obama, But The Best (And) Last Moment Belongs To Hillary  —  Talk about a final answer. … Almost wistful ... acknowledging reality... but forcefully asserting her humanity ... extremely, seemingly, genuine.  —  And at the right time... at the end …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THAT LINE  —  I mentioned at the end of my debate blog that the pivot of Hillary's powerful concluding remarks came from Bill Clinton's 92 campaign.  Clinton had various permutations to it back then.  But TPM Reader CG found one example in this November 1992 article by Anna Quindlen ...
Marc Ambinder:
A Final Thought On Tonight's Debate  —  This was the night where we all learned that Hillary Clinton understands the moment in history we are in, and that she is smart enough and gracious enough to realize that her party is more important than personal vanity, that there are things she just cannot …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Fix
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
An echo from Hillary  —  Several readers, and Obama's staff, heard an echo in Clinton's closing line, that the candidates on stage would be “fine.”  —  Clinton Tonight: ? … Edwards the December 13 debate: … Some borrowing is fairly normal.  What's been striking about the two Obama moments is that they were almost verbatim.
Washington Post:
Clinton Has Edge in Ohio; Race in Texas Deadlocked  —  AUSTIN, Feb. 21 — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing a pair of big Democratic primary tests on March 4 that could determine the fate of her presidential candidacy, is deadlocked with Sen. Barack Obama here in Texas and holds a slender lead …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: Clinton Up in Ohio, Dead Heat in Texas  —  Obama Leads in Electability in Primaries Critical to Democratic Race  —  Trailing in perceived electability, Hillary Clinton is running in a dead heat with Barack Obama in the Texas Democratic primary and holds a single-digit lead in Ohio …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
An Actual Debate!  —  Note: Please upgrade your Flash plug-in to view our enhanced content.  —  Just when it looked like the debate between Sens. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton would go quietly, the issue of plagiarism brought the two candidates out of their slumber.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and I Am TRex
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Xerox Candidate  —  I'm not watching the Democratic debate …
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Clinton and Obama Debate Once More, and Does It Matter?
Discussion: The Politico
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Live Blogging the Texas Showdown
Discussion: The Fix and ABCNEWS
Washington Post:
FEC Warns McCain on Campaign Spending  —  The nation's top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he cannot immediately withdraw from the presidential public financing system as he had requested, a decision that threatens to dramatically restrict his spending until …
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The Politico:
McCain turns tables on Times
Discussion: Pat Dollard
Frank James / The Swamp:
McCain denial was believable, says focus group
Discussion: New York Times and Pajamas Media
Jack Douglas Jr / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Police concerned about order to stop screening  —  DALLAS — Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.
Margery Eagan / Boston Herald:
When backing Barack feels like joining a cult  —  I'm an Obama girl and my man throttled Hillary Clinton, again, Tuesday night.  —  Suddenly, the impossible is real.  —  Suddenly, I'm nervous.  Very nervous, actually.  —  I'm nervous because an otherwise normal grownup told …
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Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg:
Media Start Falling Out of Love With Obama: Margaret Carlson
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Defining Victory Downward  —  Why was President Bush's decision more than a year ago to send another 30,000 troops to Iraq called “the surge”?  I don't know who invented this label, but the word “surge” evokes images of the sea: a wave that sweeps in, and then sweeps back out again.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama once visited '60s ‘Terrorists’  —  In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Riehl World View
Yahoo! News:
Exclusive: U.S. urges Pakistanis to keep Musharraf, despite election defeat  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his position, a move that Western diplomats …
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
Obama: $60M in February?
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Don't Rerun That '70s Show
Markus Becker / Spiegel Online:
Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year's End
Discussion: Hot Air
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Axelrod on Afghanistan  —  In the spin room after the debate …
Matthew Yglesias / American Prospect:
Kosovo and the Rise of the Humanitarian Hawks
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Never mind Iraq. Just end the ‘war on terror.’
Washington Post:
Spy Satellite's Downing Shows a New U.S. Weapon Capability
Associated Press:
Past Texas party chair, superdelegate Slagle opts for Clinton
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Spending by Clinton Campaign Worries Supporters
Joshua Molina / CNN:
Utah students hide guns, head to class
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Stephen Green / Vodkapundit:
Debate Drunkblogging — LIVE!
Megan McArdle:
Liveblogging the debate  —  8:08 Hillary is looking chipper and trim …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Liveblogging: The Democratic debate
Discussion: Election Law
The Campaign Spot:
Michelle Obama: ‘Every Woman That I Know... Is Struggling to Keep Her Head Above Water.’
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008
 

 
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