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Hillary Clinton / NY Daily News:
Hillary: Why do I continue to run — This past Friday, during a meeting with a newspaper editorial board, I was asked about whether I was going to continue in the presidential race. — I made clear that I was - and that I thought the urgency to end the 2008 primary process was unprecedented.
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John F. Harris / The Politico:
Media hype: How small stories become big news — The signature defect of modern political journalism is that it has shredded the ideal of proportionality. — Important stories, sometimes the product of months of serious reporting, that in an earlier era would have captured the attention …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
All About Eve — Maybe it was the proximity of Mount Rushmore and Deadwood, but something caused Hillary's inner Eve Harrington to leap out in South Dakota. — Venturing into Daschle-Obama territory, she inadvertently and inelegantly illuminated her thinking on why she wants to keep running as long as she can: stuff happens.
Michael James / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Has ‘Never Seen a Candidate Treated So Disrespectfully Just for Running’ — ABC News' Sarah Amos reports: Former President Bill Clinton in South Dakota today delivered a harsh critique of how his wife has been treated during her presidential bid, telling the crowd that he has …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton Maintains Lead Over McCain — Obama has 5-point lead over Clinton among Democrats — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from May 20-24 finds Hillary Clinton maintaining a significant 49% to 44% lead over John McCain when registered voters are asked …
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Live from the LP Convention: Nominating Speeches and the 2008 Candidate — As I walked onto the floor, one delegate ran up to me to gloat. “Did you know that C-Span's got the only cameras here?” he asked. “What about Bob Barr's media frenzy, huh? If he's getting so much attention, where's all the media?”
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Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
PREVIOUSLY: — Awaiting the sixth ballot totals, but the suspense is over and everyone knows the result: Barr will be the Libertarian presidential candidate for 2008, likely with Root as his running mate. I asked Barr if he could get the high-energy Root to switch to decaf for the general-election campaign.
presstv.ir:
‘Ayatollah will not allow US-Iraq deal’ — Iraq's most revered Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly objected to a ‘security accord’ between the US and Iraq. — The Grand Ayatollah has reiterated that he would not allow Iraq to sign such a deal with “the US occupiers” …
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Jaketapper / Political Punch:
What the FARC Was Obama Talking About? — “I have learned that when you are campaigning for as many months as Sen. Clinton and I have been campaigning, sometimes you get careless in terms of the statements that you make,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said, “And I think that is what happened here.
Charles S. Johnson / Missoulian:
Lee Newspapers poll: Obama holds big edge over Clinton in Montana — HELENA - Barack Obama has grabbed a big lead over Hillary Clinton in Montana's June 3 Democratic presidential primary, a Lee Newspapers poll shows. — Obama leads Clinton by 52 percent to 35 percent among likely Democratic voters …
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Obama's Lobbyist Connection — When Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison wanted state lawmakers to back a hefty rate hike two years ago, it took a creative lobbying approach, concocting a new outfit that seemed devoted to the public interest: Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity, or CORE.
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Trouble brewing in N.Y. for Clinton — Black leaders say that if Hillary Rodham Clinton returns as senator, she'll need to heal racial wounds her campaign has inflicted. — Even as she continues her longshot presidential bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a political rift in New York …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
ROVE'S NON-DENIAL DENIAL — On This Week this morning George Stephanopoulos asked Karl Rove if he denied contacting the Justice Department prosecuting former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. He responded with a textbook non-denial denial. Here's the video ... (ed.note: Special thanks to TPM Reader GB for the catch.)
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