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7:20 PM ET, March 4, 2008

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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 45%, Clinton 45%  —  Based on polling conducted March 1-3, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tied once again, with 45% of Democratic voters nationwide preferring each as the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, MyDD and Riehl World View
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Hillary's Math Problem  —  Forget tonight.  She could win 16 straight and still lose.  —  NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE  —  Hillary Clinton may be poised for a big night tonight, with wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.  Clinton aides say this will be the beginning of her comeback against Barack Obama.
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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
As Four States Vote, Clinton Talks About a Long Battle  —  As voters in Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont and Texas headed to the polls potentially to decide the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged voters to settle in for a nomination fight that could roll on for months to come.
Discussion: The Politico and Below The Beltway
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The Campaign Spot:
First Word of Exits For Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont
Discussion: MyDD and Buckeye State Blog
Associated Press:
Highlights of Early Exit Poll Results
Discussion: The Trail and TalkLeft
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   EARLY EXITS  —  I'm looking at the second wave of exit polls.
Marc Ambinder:
Ohio Secretary Of State's Office Rebukes Obama Campaign  —  Ohio's Secretary of State, an office held by a Democrat, has rebuked Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for trying to staff precincts with poll workers who presented insufficient credentials.  —  Obama's campaign calls this charge “wrong.”
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Marc Ambinder:
Early Views From The Clinton/Obama Campaigns  —  Note: NONE of this information comes in any way from my own knowledge of embargoed exit polls.  All references to the exit polls come from the campaigns themselves.  —  The Obama campaign expects to net seven or eight delegates out of the night …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Open Left and MyDD
Laura Heinauer / Postcards:   Democratic Party warns against caucus shenanigans
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Why is Obama's skin blacker than normal in Hillary's new attack ad?  —  DailyKos has the original scoop.  I went and got the original footage from the Clinton ad, and then compared it to 3 different video clips of the same debate from 3 different sources.  I did this so as to take into account …
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Little Green Footballs:
Idiotic Nutroots Scandal of the Day - Update: Now with Throbbing Obama!  —  Yes, the Daily Kos Kooks are now accusing Hillary Clinton of “darkening” an image of Barack Obama that appears in a video posted at the Clinton site: Nutroots accuse Hillary of darkening footage of Obama to make him look “blacker”.
Discussion: Threat Level and Ed Driscoll.com
Fox News:
Questions Raised Whether Hillary Ad Darkened Obama
Discussion: QandO
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Nutroots accuse Hillary of darkening footage of Obama to make him …
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Limbaugh Caller Says Obama Reminds Daughter of Cartoon Monkey  —  ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh issued an on-air apology to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today after a caller said her daughter thought the Democratic presidential frontrunner looked …
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Fox News:
Rush Limbaugh Explains Why He's Urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to Vote for Hillary Clinton on Super Tuesday 2  —  This is a rush transcript from “The O'Reilly Factor,” February 29, 2008.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  Watch “The O'Reilly Factor” …
John Riley / Spin Cycle:
Latest Clinton tactic: Fake news reports  —  The Clinton campaign's latest tactic in Ohio is, apparently, a radio ad that tries to make listeners think it's a news report until the very end.  —  Stuff like this, if it succeeds in fooling voters, fairly seriously pollutes the information environment …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton campaign: “irregularlties”; Obama aide: Clinton “may want …
Discussion: Buckeye State Blog and Redstate
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
CAMPAIGNS TRADE POLLING PLACE ACCUSATIONS
Discussion: OPENERS and The Democratic Daily
Abe Greenwald / Commentary:
An Iraqi Sea Change  —  Question: What is the most extraordinary thing about the following extraordinary sentence? … Answer: It is the lead of a story in today's New York Times.  The paper of record, which for the past few years could accurately be described as a body count with a styles section …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Ask Tough Questions?  Yes, They Can!  —  SAN ANTONIO It took many months and the mockery of “Saturday Night Live” to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.
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The Politico:
Five reasons Clinton could come back
Discussion: Salon and Donklephant
Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Angry Barack's Bam-barded by media  —  SAN ANTONIO, Tex. - An exasperated Barack Obama scurried away Monday from the toughest news conference of his campaign, telling reporters who kept shouting questions that he'd spent enough time on the grill.  —  “Come on!
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Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton puts the media in its place — the men's room  —  In an obvious bid for the Ron Paul media conspiracy vote, Sen. Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign dumped the traveling press corps exactly where many voters believe they belong today — in the men's room of the Burger Activity Center.
Doug Mataconis / Below The Beltway:
Picture Of The Day: Earth And Moon As Seen From Mars … Click image for higher resolution.  —  Full story here.
Discussion: Achenblog and Middle Earth Journal
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Blogging While Female: 5 Conservative Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere  —  Every so often in the blogosphere, on the Left and the Right, hostile debates over gender seem to rise up to the surface like a leviathan from the depths.  Some male bloggers tend to think women …
 
 
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Yet Another Democratic Wrinkle: Add-Ons
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The Day After  —  Tonight's results will matter a lot, of course.
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Defining Moment  —  The Democratic presidential primary …
 

 
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