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11:50 AM ET, May 14, 2008

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
This Is an Ex-Candidate  —  C ustomer: “Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.”  —  Pet-shop owner: “No, no he's not dead, he's — he's resting!  Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue, isn't it, aye?  Beautiful plumage!”
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
After Lopsided Loss, Obama Woos Blue-Collar Voters  —  WASHINGTON — How big a problem does Senator Barack Obama really have among white working-class voters?  And what —if anything — can he do about it as he heads into the general election?  —  Those were the questions that emerged …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Beats Obama Handily in West Virginia
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
UPCOUNTRY  —  If the exit polls (and the pre-election polls) …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Analysis: Maybe Obama should worry
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Profile of the Voters … Mr. Huckabee won West Virginia's …
Discussion: Anglachel's Journal
The Hill:
Analysis: House GOP hits new low, faces bleak Nov.  —  The sky is falling on House Republicans and there is no sign of it letting up.  —  The GOP loss in Mississippi's special election Tuesday is the strongest sign yet that the Republican Party is in shambles.
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Reid Wilson / Real Clear Politics:
GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi  —  In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday.  Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis …
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Childers victory gives Dems a third straight takeover  —  Democrat Travis Childers won Tuesday's Mississippi special election runoff for Sen. Roger Wicker's (R) House seat, handing Democrats the biggest of their three special election takeovers this cycle and sending a listless GOP further into a state of disarray.
Mike Allen / Associated Press:
Hillary's ‘almost heaven’ - Signs of a coming GOP cataclysm  —  BREAKING NEWS 1: JERUSALEM (AP) — President Bush on Wednesday opened a celebratory visit to Israel where he'll make a new push for peace in the long-troubled Middle East.  “We consider the Holy Land a very special place …
Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Obama Gaffes on Iraq and Afghanistan  —  ABC News' David Wright and Sunlen Miller Report: Sporting a shiny new American flag pin at an appearance in Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Sen. Barack Obama came up with some novel reasons why the U.S. may be struggling in the war in Afghanistan.
Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Rumsfeld On 2006 Election: “The Correction For That...Is An Attack”  —  An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon's “message force multipliers” program has unearthed a clip of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggesting that America, having voted the Democrats …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bush warns of Iraq disaster
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Go away you horrible human being  —  IT'S NOT CLOSE.  YOU FREAKING LOST THE NOMINATION, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?  —  Good God.  What is wrong with her?  The Clintons and their campaign staff don't give a damn that they are now hurting our electoral chances in the fall against McCain and against the Republicans in Congress.
Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
Behind the Flag  —  The flag pin issue is important to, among others, veterans who fought under the flag and, to this day, treat it with respect.  It is more than an empty symbol to them (and me).  I have talked to many of them.  I have lived with some of them.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
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Byron York / The Corner:
Obama and the Flag Pin
Discussion: Commentary
Barry Rubin / gloriacenter.org:
Lebanon to West: Wake Up Fast!  —  While America's secretary of state devotes her time to doomed Israel-Palestinian talks and America goes ga-ga over a candidate whose main foreign policy strategy is to talk to dictators, still another crisis strengthens radical Islamists and endangers Western friends and interests.
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Quinnipiac University:
Obama, Clinton Both Top McCain In November Face-Off, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Most Democrats Back Obama-Clinton ‘dream Ticket’  —  Either one of the two Democratic contenders, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama or New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, leads the likely Republican presidential nominee …
Matthew Yglesias:
Obama and Affirmative Action  —  Richard Kahlenberg observes that it would be politically savvy of Barack Obama to embrace a shift toward class-based affirmative action and that the logic of several things his said over the years seems to point in this direction.
Discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Tom Coburn / Real Clear Politics:
Gerson's Misplaced PEPFAR Anger  —  In Michael Gerson's contemptuous, and factually loose, op-ed about what he calls the “Coburn Seven” and our effort to preserve the life-saving success of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), he asks readers to weigh the moral scale between …
Discussion: The Corner
Washington Post:
Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation  —  Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason  —  The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NEVER DIE!!  —  Even with Hillary's blow-out win in West Virginia and the amazing Democratic victory in Mississippi, for me tonight's going to be about Terry McAuliffe's tour de force moment when he turned projectile nonsense into something approaching the sublime ...
Discussion: MyDD
 
 
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Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
Obama May Have His Work Cut Out for Him to Draw Independents
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Clinton was brain behind the war room
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Bill W. / Crooks and Liars:
GOP's Inadvertently Fitting New Slogan
Megan McArdle:
It's the system, man
Discussion: The G Spot
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Outsourcing of King Memorial to China Is Probed
Conrad Mulcahy / New York Times:
Officers Battle Visa Hurdles for Iraq Aides
Yochi J. Dreazen / Wall Street Journal:
What Are the Wounds of War?  —  Military Debates Purple Heart Awards For Mental Stress
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
College Dem supers for Obama
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Argghhh!:
HUSSAYN'S STORY  —  The visual-only sim can be a stomach-churner …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. parking meters retooled to aid homeless
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Wall Street Journal:
Maliki's Victory  —  When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered …
Discussion: Betsy's Page, Hot Air and QandO
Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Receive Endorsement Of 3 Former SEC Chairmen
Discussion: The Page
Deacon / Power Line:
THE REPUBLICAN LOSING STREAK CONTINUES
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
There is No Nominee: On To The Five Remaining Primaries