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9:50 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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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: The Page, Donklephant and Slog
CNN:
Obama edges Clinton in island squeaker  —  (CNN) — Barack Obama has won the Guam Democratic caucuses by a margin of 7 votes.  —  With all of Guam's precincts reporting, Obama won 2,264 votes (50.1 percent) to 2,257 votes (49.9 percent) for Hillary Clinton, his sole remaining rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: The Swamp
Sarah Wheaton / New York Times:
Narrow Victory for Obama in the Caucuses in Guam  —  Senator Barack Obama appeared to win the Democratic caucuses in Guam on Saturday, defeating Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by a seven-vote margin amid unprecedented voter participation there.  —  When hand-counting finished shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday …
Discussion: Shakesville
Todd Beeton / MyDD:
Obama Leading Guam Caucuses
John Davis / KUAM-TV:
Obama unofficially wins Guam caucus with 50.1% of the vote
Discussion: MyDD, Daily Kos and The Field
Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:   Obama wins Guam by 7 votes
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
For Democrats, Instincts Differ on Economics
Discussion: The Caucus and The Page
Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Tells Vocal Obama Supporters: “I"ll Work My Heart Out For Him"
Discussion: The Daily Dish
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 …
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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
Sam Wood / Philly.com:
Is this man John McCain's worst nightmare?  —  Bob Barr, former GOP congressman from Georgia, is an all-but-announced presidential candidate - as a Libertarian.  —  The possibility of a run by Barr has sent shudders through the mainstream of the Republican party.
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 …
Glenn Greenwald / Firedoglake:
Arianna Huffington's Right is Wrong  —  Arianna Huffington's latest book — Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe — thoroughly documents the most influential fact in our political life: namely, that the right-wing faction …
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 …
Discussion: The Impolitic
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Rasmussen Reports:
Oregon Democratic Primary  —  Oregon: Obama 51% Clinton 39%  —  The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Oregon Democratic Presidential Primary shows Barack Obama enjoying a twelve-point lead over Hillary Clinton.  It's Obama 51%, Clinton 39%.  —  Clinton has a statistically …
MomLogic:
Hillary's Teen Troubles  —  Part 4: Hillary can relate when it comes to the drama of teen dating.  —  The senator running for prez reveals the benefit of the secret service going on daughter Chelsea's dates.  —  For more from momlogic's Hillary Clinton town hall exclusive, click on one of the videos below.
Discussion: The Swamp and Top of the Ticket
Bill Ardolino / The Long War Journal:
Iraqis begin to “despise” the Mahdi Army in Baghdad's Rusafa district  —  2nd Lieutenant Mike Hebert leads White Platoon of the Blackfoot Troop, 3-89 Cavalry on a presence patrol of a difficult neighborhood in southern Rusafa District, Baghdad.  Photo by Bill Ardolino.
Discussion: Dean's World
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 …
 
 
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Zzaki / Political Punch:
Hillary's Horse  —  Tragedy struck the first filly …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
action.foe.org:
National Environmental Group Endorses Barack Obama for President
Ken Ringle / Weekly Standard:
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New York Times:
Parsing McCain on the Democrats' Health Plans
Discussion: Daily Kos and Swampland
James Risen / New York Times:
Despite Alert, Flawed Wiring Still Kills G.I.'s
Discussion: Think Progress
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USS Independence, LCS 2
Matt / Think Progress:
McCain stumbles while attempting to explain his Iraq oil remarks.
Randy Krehbiel / Tulsa World:
Cheney praises Bush in Tulsa
Discussion: At-Largely
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Wire:
DNC Is Low on Cash
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Discussion: Salon
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Overkill and Short Shrift
WTVJ-TV:
Federal Agents Raid Wrong S. Fla. Home In Search For Drugs
Michelle Malkin:
“My immigrant vagina is angry” and other militant May Day moments
Michael Barone / Townhall.com:
Wright Controversy Affects the Polls
Discussion: Hot Air and Gateway Pundit
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Colorful Tory Beats Laborite to Become Mayor of London
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
After Hiatus, States Set Wave of Executions
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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Q&A with Kelly O'Donnell, NBC News White House senior correspondent and WHCA president, ahead of the WHCD on April 27, on changes in media access and more

 
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