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8:05 PM ET, April 26, 2008

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Brian Braiker / Newsweek:
Losing Ground  —  After losing Pennsylvania and a difficult month of scandals, Barack Obama's double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton has dropped to seven points in the latest NEWSWEEK poll.  —  After an important primary win in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton has reduced Democratic rival …
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Washington Post:
Party Fears Racial Divide  —  The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm …
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Settling Scores  —  If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.  —  I'm beginning to think Hillary Clinton might pull this off and wrestle the nomination away from Barack Obama.  If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Ed Driscoll.com
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Heading Toward the Danger Zone  —  Barack Obama is winning, so why does it look like Hillary Clinton is having all the fun?  —  Senator Obama has been thrown completely off his game by a combination of political attacks (some fair, some foul), a toxic eruption (the volcanic Jeremiah Wright …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and TigerHawk
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Media Conventional Wisdom Shifting Towards Belief Clinton Could Defeat Obama?  —  There are signs of what could be a shift in the news media conventional wisdom: for the first time in months, some key pundits are hinting and even saying that Senator Barack Obama could lose the Democratic nomination …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton and Obama Tied at 47%
Discussion: American Power
Matthew Yglesias:
Vengeance is Hers  —  What happens if Hillary Clinton does …
Discussion: Liberal Values and Eschaton
MSNBC:
Democrats fear racial divide
Associated Press:
Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate  —  MARION, Ind. (AP) — Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that's largely …
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Dave Winer / The Huffington Post:
Why is it so quiet after the Moyers-Wright interview?  —  I expected a roaring debate in the political blogosphere this morning, and on cable news after the Friday night Bill Moyers interview with Rev Jeremiah Wright.  Instead, there's eerie quiet.  —  The most I could find was this post …
CNN:
Clinton to Obama: Let's debate like Lincoln
Discussion: Corrente
Fox News:
Obama: No More Debates Before Next Primary
Discussion: GINA COBB
Marc Ambinder:
Clinton Camp Challenges O To Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Discussion: The RBC
CNN:   Indiana and North Carolina: Where basketball and politics meet
New York Times:
McCain Frequently Used Wife's Jet for Little Cost  —  Given Senator John McCain's signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets.
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and MyDD
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats  —  FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.  —  But minutes into the talk, the officer …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dissent Of The Day II  —  A reader writes: … My response is simply that honorable campaigns do not allow foreign agents, especially terrorist organizations, to insert themselves into American presidential politics.  No respectable foreign governments do such a thing; and the gambits of al Qaeda …
New York Times:
3 Candidates With 3 Plans, but One Deficit  —  The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates differ strikingly in their approaches to taxes and spending, but their fiscal plans have at least one thing in common: each could significantly swell the budget deficit and increase the national debt …
Discussion: The Page
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
‘Very friendly’ on Fox  —  We won't know for sure until the Fox interview airs tomorrow, but Chris Wallace hinted that Obama didn't take the confrontational line his staff suggested he would.  —  In a message to TPM — which was a major voice in the Netroots assault on Fox last year — an anonymous Obama aide wrote:
Discussion: Open Left and NewsBusters.org
 
 
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William Glaberson / New York Times:
Detainees' Mental Health Is Latest Legal Battle
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The Audacious Hypocrisy Of Terry McAuliffe
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
'It's Almost Like They Formed An Axis or Something'
Discussion: Hot Air and Wizbang
Don Frederick / Top of the Ticket:
McCain backer John Hagee tempers Hurricane Katrina comments
Discussion: The Raw Story and The Page
Gail Collins / New York Times:
McCain's Compassion Tour
Simon Cable / Daily Mail:
'It's true - we're hypocrites over our huge carbon footprint …
CNN:
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Ron Paul is down but not out  —  Two candidates not named John …
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Discussion: ThreatsWatch
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Mommie's dearest: Chelsea outshines Bill
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Iran War Drums Beating?
David Barstow / New York Times:
Pentagon Suspends Briefings for Analysts
John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Howard Stern of SiriusXM snags a surprise interview with President Biden, following reports of Biden's refusal so far to give The NYT a sit-down interview

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024

 
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