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10:05 AM ET, May 8, 2008

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USA Today:
Clinton makes case for wide appeal  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Ed Koch: Obama Is A Sure Loser, Clinton Should Fight On  —  As Democrats coalesce around Sen. Barack Obama, one of Hillary Clinton's must outspoken supporters is not mincing words: the party is walking needlessly and unaware into a general election buzzsaw.  —  “I believe Obama probably will win …
ABCNEWS:
George's Bottom Line on Clinton for Veep  —  Clinton Might Be Negotiating Spot on '08 Ticket, George Says  —  Is Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., staying in the race to get the vice presidential slot?  —  George thinks so.  —  Clinton vowed to fight on today, despite a growing chorus …
Thomas B. Edsall / The Huffington Post:
Big Rewards Await Clinton If She Ends Campaign Now  —  Clinton Fundraising, Clinton Dropping Out, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Dropping Out, Politics News  —  She has ruled it out, but a prompt withdrawal from the contest for the Democratic nomination offers Sen. Hillary Clinton the prospect of major rewards.
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Limbaugh now wants ‘weaker’ Obama
Discussion: Preemptive Karma
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The Too-Long Goodbye  —  After the Tuesday primaries, Hillary Rodham Clinton now has maybe a 2 percent chance of winning the Democratic nomination.  But if she pursues her losing battle, she has perhaps a 20 percent chance of costing the Democrats the presidency in the fall.
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New York Times:
Support for Clinton Wanes as Obama Sees Finish Line  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture on Wednesday about continuing her presidential bid despite waning support from Democratic officials and donors.  Some of her advisers acknowledged privately that they remained unsure …
Washington Post:
Clinton Spurns Calls to Quit Race
New York Times:   The Tax Trickery Spreads
Oliver Willis:
Barack Obama's Big Mistake: He's Getting Too Many Votes  —  Following in the footsteps of other bloggers like Jeralyn Merritt and Armando, I must urge the superdelegates, the media and other creative class left blogs to be aware of something before it is too late.
Chadwick Matlin / Slate:
The Hillary Deathwatch  —  MCGOVERN, LOANS, AND SUPERDELEGATES ALL CONTINUE TO SINK THE SHIP. … A high-profile change of heart, a multimillion-dollar loan, and more Obama superdelegates drag Clinton down 1.7 points to 2.5 percent.  —  George McGovern, the Democratic nominee for president in 1972 …
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Twinmom / MyDD:   A Comparison of NC Win With VA Win
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Why Did Obama Do Worse in N.C. Than Virginia?
Discussion: TPM Election Central
Don Campbell / USA Today:
Wright story: What took so long?  —  The controversial reverend's 20-year relationship with Obama was left to simmer for a year.  In our 24/7 media age, how could this have happened?  —  Barring some really strange math or a lot of second thoughts, the Democrats seem poised to nominate …
Gateway Pundit:
A Gift From Tehran— ARMED HEZBOLLAH THUGS Roam Beirut, Gunfights & Beatings Reported  —  A GIFT FROM TEHRAN—  Boy, this says it all...  Beirut Spring posted this photo of a bridge banner in Beirut that reads: “A gift from the municipality of Tehran to the righteous, resisting Lebanese people.”
Discussion: The Jawa Report and A Blog For All
Karen Tumulty / Time:
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made  —  For all her talk about “full speed on to the White House,” there was an unmistakably elegiac tone to Hillary Clinton's primary-night speech in Indianapolis.  And if one needed further confirmation that the undaunted, never-say-die Clintons realize their bid might …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Veto and Drill!  —  Nancy Pelosi chanted “Veto and Drill”, “Veto and Drill” in caricaturing the threatened presidential veto of windfall oil company taxes and desire to drill in ANWR and elsewhere.  But all that might sound, in fact, good to most Americans.
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Bryan Caplan / New York Times:
The 18-Cent Solution  —  BOTH Hillary Clinton and John McCain say that we should suspend the 18-cent-per-gallon federal gas tax this summer.  After her beating at the polls Tuesday, there may not be much reason left to worry about what Senator Clinton thinks, but the McCain proposal is alive and well.
Discussion: EconLog and Marginal Revolution
Spencer / Attackerman:
Wages Of Sin, We Keep Paying  —  There once was an Islamic extremist who was radicalized by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Egyptian peace treaty with Israel.  After the assassination of Anwar Sadat — in which his role was, at most, peripheral — he was arrested by the Egyptian security forces and tortured extensively.
Kathy Barks Hoffman / Detroit Free Press:
Mich. Dems settle on how to split delegates  —  LANSING — Michigan Democratic leaders settled today on a plan to give presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 69 delegates and Barack Obama 59 as a way to get the delegates seated at the national convention
Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Republicans still voting against McCain  —  It's not clear yet whether the results are a real cause for concern for John McCain, but the presumptive Republican nominee still isn't exactly sweeping the primaries.  —  In Indiana on Tuesday, McCain won 78 percent of the vote …
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Michael G. Franc / National Review:
Democratic Party of Elites
 
 
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Mr. Obama Moves On  —  The next task: strategy and substance for the general election
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
It's Obama, Warts and All
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McCain Pushes Priorities That Resonate on the Right
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Is Hillary Done?  —  As midnight approached, things …
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Hillary Borrows Bill's Foreign Cash
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FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret ‘National Security Letter’, Loses
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Conservatives Happier Than Liberals
Michelle Malkin:
Stuff Muslims Don't Like: A new feature
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Matthew Yglesias:
The MI/FL Excuse  —  Yesterday, Marc Ambinder reported …
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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