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2:23 AM ET, March 28, 2008

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Pew Research Center:
Obama Weathers the Wright Storm, Clinton Faces Credibility Problem  —  National Discontent Approaches 20-Year High, Bush Approval at 28%  —  Summary of Findings  —  The videos of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial sermons and Barack Obama's subsequent speech on race and politics …
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CNN:
Clinton tells Democrats: Don't vote for McCain  —  FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (CNN) - Hillary Clinton pleaded for partisan unity on Thursday, urging Democrats not to abandon their party to vote for John McCain if their preferred candidate fails to secure the nomination.
Southern Political Report:
New InsiderAdvantage Poll  —  Obama Leads Big In North Carolina  —  Hillary Clinton desperately needs to claim more white votes if she is to win a desperately needed primary by taking the Democratic presidential contest in North Carolina May 6.  —  But with five weeks to go …
Gallup:   Gallup Daily: Obama Now at 48% to Clinton 44%
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Clinton, Obama predict eventual unity
CNN:
Analysis: Al-Sadr in trouble, Iraq headed for meltdown  —  (CNN) — The fighting among Shiite militias and government troops in Basra is a glimpse of Iraq's future, and pivotal cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is in deep trouble, according to two CNN correspondents and a CNN military analyst.
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Dean Godson / Times of London:
Crude oil surges after Basra pipeline bombing
Richard Beeston / Times of London:
Iraqi militia success means Britain must fight - or admit failure
Discussion: The New Republic
James Hider / Times of London:   Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides
Lindsay Renick Mayer / Capital Eye:
Democratic Donors Send $24 Million Letter to Pelosi  —  Major fundraisers, who support Hillary Clinton, urge the Speaker of the House not to meddle with superdelegate votes—and millions of dollars are behind their message.  —  Prominent backers of Hillary Clinton sent a multi-million-dollar message …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Senator calls for sweeping election overhaul
Discussion: Political Machine and The Page
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Court Orders Release of Ex-Governor From Prison
Discussion: TalkLeft and Facing South
The Raw Story:
BREAKING: EX-ALABAMA GOV. TO BE FREED ON BOND
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
Amanda / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: McCain's Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarizes 1996 Address By Adm. Timothy Ziemer (UPDATED)  —  EXCLUSIVE: McCain's Foreign Affairs Speech 1996 Address By Adm. Timothy Ziemer (UPDATED) … Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave a foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
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.
Mike Allen / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama talks cap-gains rate with CNBC  —  In an interview in conjunction with his big economic speech in New York, Senator Obama tells CNBC's Maria Bartiromo he favors increasing the capital-gains tax rate.  —  Bartiromo reported after her interview: “Right now, as you know, the cap gains tax is at 15 percent.
Fox News:
Obama's Former Pastor Getting $1.6M Home in Retirement  —  This was supposed to be the week that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. returned to the pulpit to preach for the first time since his anti-American sermons generated nationwide outrage and drew condemnation from his longtime parishioner, Barack Obama.
Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
Obama retools in Pennsylvania  —  PHILADELPHIA — On the eve of his six-day bus tour of Pennsylvania, Barack Obama is bringing in a new operative to lead his efforts in the state.  —  Paul Tewes, who directed Obama's impressive win in the Iowa caucuses, will take over the Pennsylvania campaign …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hillary vows: We're going all the way to the convention; Update: Hillary questions the legitimacy of Obama's nomination  —  Good lord.  Even I find her ruthlessness here creepy, and I'm pulling for her.  I'm giving you the second clip mostly for the smug look on her face after she delivers her bone-chilling …
Discussion: Time and RIGHTWINGSPARKLE
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Transcript of Dodd's Interview With National Journal  —  Q: As I mentioned earlier, you were the General Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  Now, you know that a lot of Democrats feel that this increasingly bitter race between Obama and Clinton is hurting the party.
Discussion: Commentary
Greg Risling / Associated Press:
Woman says TSA forced piercings removal  —  LOS ANGELES - A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.  —  “I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone …
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)
Eric Lichtblau / Slate:
The Education of a 9/11 Reporter  —  THE INSIDE DRAMA BEHIND THE TIMES' WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING STORY. … For 13 long months, we'd held off on publicizing one of the Bush administration's biggest secrets.  Finally, one afternoon in December 2005, as my editors and I waited anxiously …
John Eskow / The Huffington Post:
Obama Fathers Two-Headed Gay Terrorist Baby: The National Enquirer-ization of American Politics  —  As campaign politics in America lurches, zombie-like, deeper and deeper into the muck, with Hillary Clinton desperately flogging the Reverend Wright “scandal” in all its idiotic glory …
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