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11:30 PM ET, April 7, 2008

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Marc Ambinder:
Penn: Never Out, Still In  —  Demoted Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn may no longer have the coveted title of chief strategist, but he remains a key member of the campaign's senior staff.  —  Mr. Penn took part on the campaign's morning message call this morning, as usual.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Mark Penn Speaks (In Private): Will Still Advise Clintons, Calms Nervous Aides  —  Mark Penn, who resigned over the weekend as the Clinton campaign's chief strategist, went into full damage control mode on Monday, hosting a conference call with Burson Marsteller's managing directors to persuade …
Eamon Javers / The Politico:
HRC Colombia ties don't stop with Penn
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:   Clinton Campaign Regroups After Shakeup at Top
Anne E. Kornblut / The Trail:
Clinton Told True Tale of Woe, Says Kin  —  The aunt of a young pregnant woman who died after a hospital told her she needed to pay $100 up front for care said in an interview on Monday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been telling the story accurately on the campaign trail …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Storylines  —  Andrea Mitchell said today that Clinton has a “growing credibility gap” because she repeated a story on the stump about a woman who was denied health care and died.  (I believe this is based on a bizarre and very badly written article which appeared over the week-end in the New York Times.)
Discussion: Associated Press and TalkLeft
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Moves to 9-point Lead Over Clinton  —  McCain, Obama remain tied in general election trial heat  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama has gained support in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report for April 4-6, and now leads Hillary Clinton by a statistically significant margin, 52% to 43%.
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Media Matters for America:
On Tim Russert , Hitchens said to Sullivan: “Oh, well don't be such a lesbian.  Get on with it”  —  On the April 5 edition of MSNBC's Tim Russert, Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens debated the significance for Sen. Barack Obama of comments made by his former pastor Jeremiah Wright …
Discussion: Pandagon
Steve Coll / New Yorker:
MILITARY CONFLICT … General Richard A. Cody graduated from West Point in 1972, flew helicopters, ascended to command the storied 101st Airborne Division, and then, toward the end of his career, settled into management; now, at fifty-seven, he wears four stars as the Army Vice-Chief of Staff.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
The non-political elite view of McCain  —  A GOP fundraiser who hasn't, to put it mildly, been the biggest McCain booster in the world makes a smart point to me in explaining his success so far in raising coin for the GOP nominee from money types outside the Washington crowd.
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Redstate:
A List of Reporters Who Need To Be Set Straight: Let's Call Them  —  The media, now inching into campaign mode against the Republican, are willingly giving Barack Obama a free pass on his “100 years” lie about John McCain.  —  As we've noted before, Obama has repeatedly said things along the lines of this from a Hardball appearance:
Ross Douthat:
The Worst President Ever?  —  An unscientific survey of 109 professional historians, conducted by the doubtless-unbiased author of Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion In America, reports that sixty-one percent of its sample considers George W. Bush's Presidency the “worst ever.”
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Chicago Tribune:
Representative tries to put the fear of God in atheist  —  Did you hear about the state legislator who last week blasted a Lutheran minister during a committee hearing for spewing dangerous religious superstitions, and then attempted to order the minister out of the witness chair on the grounds …
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
2 Suburban Philadelphia Counties Flip to Democratic Party  —  History is being made in the suburbs of Philadelphia.  —  The four suburban counties have long been Republican strongholds, with more Republican voters than Democratic ones.  The last time there were more Democrats than Republicans seems lost in the mist of time.
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Newsweek
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Murtha can't get enough of the sweet, sweet pork  —  Via InstaGlenn.  Not one blessed thing in the clip will surprise you if you're a right-wing blog reader of any duration.  His staggering gluttony in this area has made him a target of even left-wing outfits like CREW …
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David Freddoso / The Corner:
Murtha's Earmarks  —  This CBS News report ran on Friday regarding …
Discussion: My Man Mitt.com
Marc Ambinder:
McCain Raises $15M In March  —  Sen. John McCain's fundraising is picking up, relatively speaking.  —  In March, officials said he raised about $15M, his best month since early 2007 and well above his $2M-per-month pace in late 2007.  The final number is still being tallied.
Rob Lowe / The Huffington Post:
Household Betrayal  —  Harassment in the workplace, sexual or otherwise, is something I take very seriously.  In my home and on the set, I have been surrounded for years by hardworking women (and men) whom I respect and whose rights are to be protected.  But when people make false claims …
 
 
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
CBS Said to Consider Use of CNN in Reporting
Discussion: Power Line and NewsBusters.org
Faiz / Think Progress:
Rove's attorney says Rove would testify if subpoenaed in Siegelman case.
Discussion: Emptywheel and CBS News
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
How the MSM Treats Hillary: One Video Shows It All
Discussion: Althouse
Inside Higher Ed:
College Isn't Worth a Million Dollars
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Fox News:
NYC Cabbie Who Runs Anti-American Islamic Web Site Mocks GI Deaths …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
The 100 Year Retreat  —  Apparently the beating the Obama campaign …
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Yochi J. Dreazen / Wall Street Journal:
Officer Questions Petraeus's Strategy
Carol Platt Liebau / Real Clear Politics:
The Cynic vs. the Radical: Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama
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60 Minutes: Doug Feith once again earns his nickname
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
If My Grandmother Had Wheels, Clinton Would be Winning
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton calls for Olympic opening boycott
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people
Greg Ransom / PrestoPundit:
BARACK OBAMA HID HIS FATHER'S SOCIALIST AND ANTI-WESTERN CONVICTIONS …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Grains Gone Wild