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3:18 AM ET, May 4, 2008

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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 and Liberal Values
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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.
Brett Kelman / Pacific Daily News:
BREAKING NEWS 8:50 a.m. - Obama wins Guam caucus  —  8:50 a.m. — When all of the ballots were finally counted — a process that lasted through the night until well after the sun was up — Sen. Barack Obama had the most votes from Guam Democrats in the party's caucus held yesterday.
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 and Donklephant
Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:   Obama wins Guam by 7 votes
Zzaki / Political Punch:
Hillary's Horse  —  Tragedy struck the first filly in the Kentucky Derby since 1999, as Eight Belles went down on the track after her second-place finish today, broke two ankles, and was euthanized.  —  Showing a sisterhood with the female horse, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. …
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Holly In Cincinnati / The Moderate Voice:
Let's Avoid Equine Analogies in Politics
Discussion: The Impolitic
Mevanh / The Page:   YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP  —  Hillary Clinton enthusiastically picked …
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.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Republican Ron Paul predicts a President Obama come January  —  Rep. Ron Paul, the House member from Texas who technically remains in the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination against Sen. John McCain, predicts that Democratic Sen. Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States.
Wesley J. Smith / Weekly Standard:
The Silent Scream of the Asparagus  —  You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity” of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong.  This is no hoax.  The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is being seriously debated.
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:   THE SILENT SCREAM of asparagus.  “What is clear, however …
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
Discussion: TalkLeft and Gateway Pundit
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 …
Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Tells Vocal Obama Supporters: “I"ll Work My Heart Out For Him"  —  From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — During the annual North Carolina Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson Dinner tonight, Hillary Clinton said she will not only back Barack Obama if he is the party's nominee, she will work hard for him.
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aswataliraq.info:
20 wounded, 49 vehicles damaged in U.S. attack on Sadr Hospital  —  Baghdad - Voices of Iraq  —  Twenty patients and workers in al-Sadr Hospital were wounded and 49 civilian and ambulance vehicles were damaged when U.S. warplanes opened fire at the hospital on Saturday, a health official said.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Democrat Wins La. Special Election  —  State Rep. Don Cazayoux won the special election in Louisiana's 6th district yesterday, a victory that marks the second time this year that Democrats have won a seat previously held by a Republican.  —  Cazayoux, a conservative Democrat …
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 …
 
 
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