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11:15 AM ET, March 28, 2008

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Thomas Fitzgerald / Philly.com:
Bob Casey to endorse Obama, join bus tour  —  Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president today in Pittsburgh, sending a message both to the state's primary voters and to undecided superdelegates who might decide the close race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Mike Allen / Ben Smith's Blogs:
BREAKING: Dean wants closure by July 1  —  A potential game-changer from CBS News and “The Early Show.”  Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says he wants superdelegates to make a decision by JULY 1 — the most specific he has been in his effort to prod the party …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Pennsylvania voters feeling ‘neglected’  —  PITTSBURGH - After envisioning Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama stumping from one end of the state to the other, dipping into diners and delis, all but taking up residence here in the run-up to the state's critical April 22 primary …
Discussion: The Page and PSoTD
USA Today:
McCain to embark on ‘biography tour’  —  WASHINGTON — John McCain became a public figure as a Vietnam prisoner of war.  He has been in Congress for a quarter-century and ran a well-covered presidential race in 2000.  He has co-authored five books.  —  But his campaign still wants to make sure people know who he is.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Dean: Bickering Democrats May Hurt Party
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
U.S. Armor Forces Join Offensive In Baghdad Against Sadr Militia  —  Americans Appear To Take the Lead As Iraqi Units Wait  —  U.S. forces in armored vehicles battled Mahdi Army fighters Thursday in Sadr City, the vast Shiite stronghold in eastern Baghdad, as an offensive to quell party-backed militias entered its third day.
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Erica Goode / New York Times:
U.S. Planes Attack Militia Strongholds in Basra Fighting  —  BAGHDAD —American military forces for the first time conducted air strikes on targets in Basra late Thursday, joining Iraqi security forces in trying to oust Shiite militias in the southern port city.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and TownHall Blog
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
US airstrike kills at least 4 in Baghdad
Mike Allen / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama now says he might have left church  —  In appearance taped for airing this morning on “The View,” Senator Obama makes news by saying he might have left Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ if the Rev. Jeremiah Wright had not retired.  —  In a clip posted by ABC, Obama says …
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Associated Press:
Obama would have left if Wright stayed  —  WASHINGTON - White House hopeful Barack Obama suggests he would have left his Chicago church had his longtime pastor, whose fiery anti-American comments about U.S. foreign policy and race relations threatened Obama's campaign, not stepped down.
Daniel / Crooked Timber:
Bad news from Basra  —  My assessment of the battle for Basra has changed significantly.  I still think that, in the subjunctive conditional tense, it was a reasonable piece of analysis - al-Maliki needed to do something[1] to start to establish his monopoly on violence within Iraq …
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CBS News:
U.S. Warplanes Bomb Militias In Basra
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Loans and Leadership  —  When George W. Bush first ran for the White House, political reporters assured us that he came across as a reasonable, moderate guy.  —  Yet those of us who looked at his policy proposals — big tax cuts for the rich and Social Security privatization — had a very different impression.
Discussion: Firedoglake, The Trail and Corrente
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton: Caucuses ‘Killing Us’  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis, Sarah Amos, and Talal Al-Khatib Report: While speaking by phone Thursday to his wife's Texas supporters, former President Bill Clinton downplayed the importance of caucuses and argued that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. …
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Ex-Governor of Alabama Is Ordered Released  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Donald Siegelman, former governor of Alabama, was ordered released from prison on Thursday by a federal appeals court, pending his appeal of a bribery conviction that Democrats say resulted from a politically driven prosecution.
Portfolio:
Fee for All  —  Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' internet-service bills for unlimited access to music.  —  The plan—the boldest move yet to keep the wounded entertainment …
 
 
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Bush the Multilateralist  —  John McCain gave a major foreign …
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Shawn Pogatchnik / Associated Press:
Clinton's Belfast role draws criticism
Mike Allen / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain to announce first general-election ad
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Tested Over Time  —  Barack Obama says: “John McCain is determined …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Getting Mrs. Clinton  —  I think we've reached a signal point in the campaign.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Obama Rewriting Rules for Raising Campaign Money Online
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
U.S. Issues Indictment of Governor in Puerto Rico
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