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4:15 PM ET, June 9, 2008

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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Takes Lead Over McCain, 48% to 42%  —  Has consistently led McCain since Clinton decided to suspend campaign  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama is enjoying a modest bump in support following Hillary Clinton's exit from the presidential race.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Beginnings Of A Bump  —  Obama has his strongest showing to date in Gallup's tracking poll:
Discussion: Eunomia
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA vs. McCAIN....Gallup's latest Obama-McCain tracking poll …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
‘Bush Lied’?  If Only It Were That Simple.  —  Search the Internet for “Bush Lied” products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs.  The basic “Bush Lied, People Died” bumper sticker is only the beginning.  —  Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) …
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Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Pelosi backs Emanuel for senator from Ill.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reported to be privately talking about Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the House Democratic Caucus chairman, as the next senator from Illinois if Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election.
Discussion: Bring It On! and Open Left
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's a Different Country  —  Fervent supporters of Barack Obama like to say that putting him in the White House would transform America.  With all due respect to the candidate, that gets it backward.  Mr. Obama is an impressive speaker who has run a brilliant campaign — but if he wins in November …
Wall Street Journal:
Countrywide Friends Got Good Loans  —  Mozilo Sought, Received Better Rates for Some; Problems for Fannie Mae?  —  Countrywide Financial Corp. makes mortgage loans through a vast network of offices, brokers and call centers.  But a few customers have gotten their loans a special way: through Countrywide Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo.
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Top Talent Scout for Obama Tied to Subprime Lender
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate Votes To Privatize Its Failing Restaurants  —  Year after year, decade upon decade, the U.S. Senate's network of restaurants has lost staggering amounts of money — more than $18 million since 1993, according to one report, and an estimated $2 million this year alone, according to another.
Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
Hillary Clinton paid a heavy price for presidential run  —  Eighteen million votes: $212 million.  Some 1,926 delegates: $109,823 a pop. Blowing the biggest head start in presidential history: priceless.  —  From anointed to also-ran, Hillary Clinton spent more money to lose a primary election …
CNN:
Obama ‘fist bump’ catching on  —  (CNN) — In a reference to Barack and Michelle Obama's celebratory fist bump on Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, ended their conversation on CNN's Late Edition with their own version of the “hand shake.”
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Too Sense
Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Elizabeth Edwards to have Obama's ear  —  Barack Obama announced in his economy speech today that Elizabeth Edwards will work with him on healthcare policy — the issue that is the cause of her life and on which she preferred Hillary Clinton.  —  While her husband John Edwards gave …
Discussion: TIME.com and Taylor Marsh
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Says He's Partnering With Elizabeth Edwards On Health Care
Discussion: TalkLeft
CNN:
McCain resurrects call for gas tax holiday  —  From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby, CNN's Dana Bash  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - With gas prices reaching a national average of four dollars a gallon — a record high — John McCain is planning to resurrect his call for a national gas tax holiday …
Discussion: Below The Beltway
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
State GOP fears grouchy voters won't go to polls  —  Convention opens here amid some discontent within the party  —  AUSTIN — After a decade of political dominance, the Texas GOP is opening its party convention in Houston this week with a troubling prospect: Grumpy Republicans may not turn out to vote this fall.
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Bruce Bartlett / The New Republic:
Mr. Right?  —  The rise of the Obamacons.  —  The New Yorker is hardly the optimal vehicle for reaching the conservative intelligentsia.  But, last year, Barack Obama cooperated with a profile for that magazine where he seemed to be speaking directly to the right.
Ari Melber / The Nation:
White Male Pundit Power  —  It's still all about the white men.  Hillary Clinton's loss has renewed critiques that American political media is slanted, sexist and dominated by men.  While Clinton and Obama broke barriers in the Democratic primary, swiftly dispatching white male Senators …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain DID deliver line tweaking press  —  John McCain told Newsweek that he did not deliver a portion from the prepared text of his speech last Tuesday chiding the media for not giving Hillary Clinton her due.  But video from McCain's address shows him giving the line as written.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign Manager Plouffe To Hold Private Outreach Meeting With Top Hillary Fundraisers  —  Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is set to give a private presentation on the general election to a group of top Hillary fundraisers, in a session that is being described as an effort to bring …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and TIME.com
Peter Walker / Guardian:
Guantánamo staff ‘told to destroy torture notes’  —  Interrogators at Guantánamo Bay were told to destroy their notes to stop them potentially being used to highlight the mistreatment of detainees, according to a US military lawyer.  —  William Kuebler, a lieutenant commander …
 
 
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Discussion: NewsBusters.org
CBN.com:
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Ali / Think Progress:
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Discussion: Army Times and VetVoice
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Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated
Stuart Rothenberg / Real Clear Politics:
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