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7:40 PM ET, June 3, 2008

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Associated Press:
AP tally: Obama effectively clinches nomination … WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.
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Associated Press:
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.  Check back soon for further information.  AP's earlier story is below.  —  WASHINGTON (AP)—Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said …
Associated Press:
Clinton says she's open to being Obama's VP  —  WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton told colleagues Tuesday she would consider joining Barack Obama as his running mate, and advisers said she was withholding a formal departure from the race partly to use her remaining leverage to press for a spot on the ticket.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Superdelegates surge to Obama  —  A tsunami of superdelegates is poised to rush to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) over the next 12 hours, giving him a mathematical lock on his party's presidential nomination.  —  The superdelegate surge is likely to swamp a few holdouts within the camp …
CNN:
Clinton backer Feinstein says it's time to end  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Major Hillary Clinton supporter Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday the final primaries mark a “moment of truth” for the New York senator, who should end her campaign.  —  The California senator also repeated her view …
Drudge Report:
EXCLUSIVE: MCCAIN SPEECH TONIGHT: THE GENERAL ELECTION BEGINS  —  John McCain will launch his general election campaign against Barack Obama tonight at 9:00 in New Orleans, Louisiana.  In a speech that will praise Senator Clinton for her “tenacity and courage,” McCain will recognize Obama as the Democratic party's presumptive nominee.
CNN:
Obama inching closer to securing nomination  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama inched closer to the Democratic nomination Tuesday as endorsements from superdelegates trickled in.  —  Thirty one delegates are at stake in the final contests under way in South Dakota and Montana.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton, pushed as VP, doesn't push back  —  In a call with the New York congressional delegation that just ended, Hillary Clinton heard calls that she become Barack Obama's running mate — and notably didn't tamp those voices down, two people familiar with the call's contents said.
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:   Clinton Campaign Confronts A.P. Report
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
On the AP count  —  It's a bit hard to know what to make of this …
Discussion: The Swamp and Time
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Pawlenty: McCain will compete for Clinton backers
Discussion: Donklephant and Daily Kos
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Making History and Denying History
Kara Spak / Chicago Sun Times:
Cardinal removes Pfleger from St. Sabina parish  —  The firebrand pastor of St. Sabina parish was removed from his duties there Tuesday, according to a statement released by the Archdiocese of Chicago.  —  In the statement, Cardinal Francis George says he asked the Rev. Michael Pfleger …
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Amz / Democracy Corps:
Another Congressional Wave Election  —  In the latest Democracy Corps battleground survey of 1,600 likely voters conducted May 19-26, 2008, we modified our sample design to include more hard-to-reach Republican-held districts.  And even in this totally Republican battleground that Bush won …
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Democracy Corps:
Democrats Improve Advantage in 45 Republican-Held Districts
Discussion: Swampland and American Street
Muckraker / Muckraked:
Bush: We'll Be in Iraq for 40 Years, Hamas Election Was “Good Thing”  —  When NBC News correspondent Richard Engel sat down with President Bush last year for an interview, he had little idea how much Bush would reveal about his true intentions and his real sentiments about the war on terror and America's allies and enemies.
Discussion: Think Progress
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Richard Engel / Simon & Schuster, Inc.:
War Journal  —  My Five Years in Iraq  —  This Edition: Hardcover
Discussion: Cato-at-liberty
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Obama's comfort level at the non-existent Applebee's salad bar  —  For over eight years now, we've been hearing that Democrats have been losing presidential elections because people don't want to have a beer with the party's nominees.  This always struck me as an odd formulation …
Discussion: New York Times and Eunomia
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Hoffmania Himself / Hoffmania!:
Brooks: Obama Doesn't Pass the Applebee's Test
Discussion: ArchPundit
The Corner:
My Old Party  —  This is an astounding moment in American politics.  You cannot credibly say the Clintons are a political dynasty the way, say, the Kennedys or Bushs are.  But I think one has to say the Clinton rule of the Democratic party has been dynastic.
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Argus Leader:
Johnson will support winner of South Dakota primary  —  FAITH BREMNER  • ARGUS LEADER WASHINGTON BUREAU  —  WASHINGTON - South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson said Tuesday he'll throw his superdelegate vote behind whoever wins the state's Democratic presidential primary.
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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Mark Halperin / TIME.com:
HALPERIN'S TAKE: What Obama And Clinton Underestimate  —  Obama underestimates:  —  1. The intensely loyal feelings many of Clinton's supporters have about her - and the intensely negative feelings they have about him.  —  2. That any delay in choosing a running mate will only bring rampant speculation …
Discussion: marbury
Waldo L. Fielding, M.D. / New York Times:
Repairing the Damage, Before Roe  —  With the Supreme Court becoming more conservative, many people who support women's right to choose an abortion fear that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that gave them that right, is in danger of being swept aside.  —  When such fears arise, we often hear about the pre-Roe “bad old days.”
 
 
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