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5:15 PM ET, May 3, 2008

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New York Times:
Suddenly, North Carolina Is Facing Tighter Race  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Just days before the North Carolina primary, the Democratic presidential contest in this state is suddenly alive with a fresh air of competition, as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks to capitalize on a controversy …
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Zogby:
Zogby Poll: Obama Lead in NC Shrinks; He and Clinton Remain Deadlocked in Indiana  —  UTICA, New York - Democrat Hillary Clinton made gains in North Carolina yesterday, drawing within single digits of rival Barack Obama, while the two remain deadlocked in Indiana with just days …
CNN:
Obama leads Clinton in Guam caucuses  —  (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. Hillary Clinton in Guam's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday, with votes from the largest of the island's 19 villages still to be counted, according to a Guam election official.
Discussion: Slog
Michael Barone / Townhall.com:
Wright Controversy Affects the Polls  —  Is the bottom falling out for Barack Obama?  It's too early to say that, but there are some disturbing signs.  On the positive side, superdelegates still are breaking his way.  Rep. Baron Hill, whose southern Indiana district almost certainly will vote for Hillary Clinton, came out for Obama.
Discussion: Hot Air
Al Giordano / The Huffington Post:
Operation Anti-Chaos: The Narrative on “White Voters” Is Fiction  —  I turn on the TV, read the political columnists (and a significant number of analytically-challenged bloggers, too) and all I hear is a bunch of white folk prattling on about their favorite narrative: “Obama's losing white voters!”
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Charles Blow / New York Times:
A Blacklash?  —  Since January, the Clintons have pummeled Barack Obama with racially tinged comments and questions about his character.  —  Hillary Clinton has questioned why he didn't walk out on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.; why he “denounced” but didn't “reject” Louis Farrakhan …
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Colorful Tory Beats Laborite to Become Mayor of London  —  LONDON — Boris Johnson, the floppy-haired media celebrity and Conservative member of Parliament who transformed himself from a shambling, amusing-aphorism-uttering figure of fun into a plausible political force, was elected mayor of London on Friday.
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Benedict Brogan / Daily Mail:
Boris has last laugh after routing Red Ken to complete Gordon Brown's day of misery
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Matt / Think Progress:
McCain stumbles while attempting to explain his Iraq oil remarks.  —  At a townhall event yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) implied that the U.S. went to war in Iraq over oil, saying that if America had energy independence that would “prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation  —  (updated below)  —  Long-time war cheerleader Fred Hiatt of The Washignton Post has a truly incoherent Editorial this morning in which he cites the problems he says are created by air strikes of the type the U.S. just carried …
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Washington Post:
Strike From Afar  —  How would ‘over the horizon’ counterterrorism work in Iraq?
Discussion: QandO
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Wright Postmortem  —  Why the Obama Pass?  —  I think we have sort of reached an impasse on Rev. Wright.  Most Americans, I think, accept the following realties.  Obama, by what he wrote in his memoirs, by what he said when he spoke in his early campaign speeches, by his frequent praise of Wright …
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
After Hiatus, States Set Wave of Executions  —  HUNTSVILLE, Tex. — Here in the nation's leading death-penalty state, and some of the 35 others with capital punishment, execution dockets are quickly filling up.  —  Less than three weeks after a United States Supreme Court ruling ended …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:   Lethal injection: a one-drug alternative?
Michelle Malkin:
“My immigrant vagina is angry” and other militant May Day moments  —  The MSM focused on the diminished numbers of May Day protesters earlier this week, but those who did turn out were as militant as ever.  Blog correspondents from across the country sent in their coverage.
CNN:
Paul: Not ready to endorse McCain, likes Obama's foreign policy  —  (CNN) — Even though Rep. Ron Paul has never officially ended his long shot presidential bid, he's ready to weigh in on the three remaining major candidates for the White House.  —  In an interview on The Situation Room …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Hot Air
Washington Wire:
DNC Is Low on Cash  —  The Democratic National Committee raised only $4.7 million in April and ended last month with a perilously low $3.7 million in the bank, a Democratic insider tells Washington Wire.  —  Four years ago during the last presidential election cycle, the story was much different.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Overkill and Short Shrift  —  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is no doubt (and regrettably) a big issue in the presidential campaign.  But what we've seen over the past week is major media overkill — Jeremiah Wright all day and all night.  It's like watching the clips of a car wreck again and again.
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Caren Bohan / Tales from the Trail:
Obama says don't judge him by ex-pastor's comments
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