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3:35 AM ET, May 6, 2008

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ipsos-na.com:
Clinton (47%) Overtakes Obama (40%) Nationally On Eve of Indiana And North Carolina Primaries  —  Poll Shows Clinton Campaign Picking Up Steam With Democrats Nationally … Washington, DC - The latest Ipsos poll conducted over the weekend shows that on the eve of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries …
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New InsiderAdvantage Survey  —  Obama Inching Closer in Indiana  —  Hillary Clinton is like one of those blow-up punching bags that keep popping back up when you slug them.  For her to pop up and then pop back with a punch of her own, she must at least win Tuesday's Indiana primary.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Attack and Counterattack  —  Senator Barack Obama of Illinois …
Discussion: The Swamp and The Caucus
Ariel Alexovich / The Caucus:
Obama Strikes Back With Negative Advertisement
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Democrats Tied for Record 12th Day
Discussion: American Power and Donklephant
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen  —  At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans.  The conversation soon turned to the new president.  “I didn't vote for George Bush” the man confessed.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
IS MICHELLE OBAMA RESPONSIBLE FOR THE JEREMIAH WRIGHT FIASCO?  —  So numbed have I become by the endless replay of the fatuous clerical rantings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright that it has taken me this long to remember the significant antecedent.  In 1995, there appeared a documentary titled Brother Minister …
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
John & Elizabeth Edwards: What We Like (and Dislike) About Clinton & Obama  —  Elizabeth Edwards likes Hillary Clinton's plan for universal health insurance.  Husband John Edwards doesn't much care for Clinton's “old politics.”  —  So goes the his-and-her debate in the Edwards household …
Paul Krugman:
Is Obama misrepresenting what I said?  —  I don't have a link to the ad itself, but apparently there's an Obama ad citing something I said about McCain's gas tax holiday as a way to attack Hillary Clinton.  —  I did not say that the Clinton proposal would increase oil industry profits.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton: OPEC ‘can no longer be a cartel’  —  Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.  —  “We're going to go right at OPEC,” she said.
Avram Goldstein / Bloomberg:
Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths, U.S. Says  —  The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said.  —  Community mental health centers …
Paul West / Baltimore Sun:
Meet Bill Clinton, man of the people  —  DUNN, N.C. - If Barack Obama wants to connect with white, working-class voters, he could take a lesson from William Jefferson Clinton.  —  The former president has been on tour for months, almost exclusively in small towns and rural county seats …
Discussion: National Review and Spin Cycle
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Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Bill Clinton Goes After TNR Alum!
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
With Right Props and Stops, Clinton Transforms Into Working-Class Hero  —  All over North Carolina and Indiana, crowds of teachers and truckers, salespeople and small business owners, have been hailing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as one of their own.  —  “She's a working mom,” Tracy Zettel …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Clinton disclosures didn't list $24 million of Bill's income  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton excluded nearly $24 million of her husband's earnings from Senate financial statements from 2004 through 2006, capitalizing on rules that permit senators to limit disclosures of some of their spouses' income.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
The Glenn and Helen Show: Fred Thompson on John McCain and Judges  —  With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama still slugging it out in the Democratic primaries, John McCain has already cleared the way to the Republican nomination.  He's spending his time laying out his positions for the general election …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
States Get In on the Calls for a Gas Tax Holiday  —  SLOCOMB, Ala. — Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida has been fighting to cut 10 cents from the state's gasoline tax for two weeks in July.  Lawmakers in Missouri, New York and Texas have also proposed a summer break from state gas taxes …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:
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Faiz / Think Progress:
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
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Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks