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3:10 PM ET, June 16, 2008

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Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Former Clinton Campaign Manager Joins Obama Team  —  The Obama campaign is about to make its first big hire out of the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Patti Solis Doyle, who was Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign manager until she was ousted in a staff shake up in February …
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Associated Press:
Obama camp sees possible win without Ohio, Fla.  —  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Barack Obama's campaign envisions a path to the presidency that could include Virginia, Georgia and several Rocky Mountain states, but not necessarily the pair of battlegrounds that decided the last two elections — Florida and Ohio.
Matthew Yglesias:
New Jobs  —  Obama campaign announces a bunch of new senior hires …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Solis Doyle to Obamaland
Discussion: The Swamp
CNN:
Obama campaign rounds out general election staff
Discussion: TalkLeft
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs  —  The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They're Banned  —  The stories over the weekend were bad enough - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions.
Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
AP Gets Worried
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:   AP, hole, dig
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
As Obama Aide, Reporter Dons Flack Jacket  —  ST. LOUIS — As Barack Obama started fielding questions at a hospital here last week, Linda Douglass stood off to the left, scribbling in a reporter's notebook, as she has in every presidential campaign since 1980.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Predict Obama Will Be Next U.S. President  —  A 52% majority thinks Obama Will Win, Versus 41% Choosing McCain  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Not only has Barack Obama recently opened a small lead over John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking of voter preferences for the general election …
Discussion: Boston Globe and Political Punch
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 42%
Discussion: The Other McCain
James Kirchick / Los Angeles Times:
Bush never lied to us about Iraq  —  The administration simply got bad intelligence.  Critics are wrong to assert deception.  —  Touring Vietnam in 1965, Michigan Gov. George Romney proclaimed American involvement there “morally right and necessary.”  Two years later, however, Romney …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fiscal Poison Pill  —  A poison pill, in corporate jargon, is a financial arrangement designed to protect current management by crippling the company if someone else takes over.  —  As I read the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's analysis of the presidential candidates' tax proposals …
BBC:
Blogger arrests hit record high  —  More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report.  —  Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report.
Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock.  —  The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they collapsed in pain.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Bush backer pens pro-Obama book  —  The conservative Evangelical biographer of George W. Bush and Tom DeLay has moved on to a new subject: Barack Obama.  And his new book, due out this summer, may lend credibility to Senator Obama's bid to win Evangelical Christian voters away from the Republican Party.
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
What's Next for MTP?  —  With the poignant farewell to Russert on yesterday's Meet the Press, the conversation is now turning to replacements.  —  Let me just say, that I didn't agree with Tim Russert's approach to his show in every respect.  I thought his obsession with the green-eyeshade stuff could be tedious.
New York Times:
A Delegator, Obama Picks When to Take Reins  —  WASHINGTON — In the months leading up to Senator Barack Obama's big loss in the Pennsylvania primary, he was a detached manager: around, but not meddling.  Rarely on early-morning conference calls with his senior advisers …
 
 
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Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
Oversight Committee Subpoenas Justice Department for Plame Documents
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WaPo: Why aren't Democrats embracing an Iraqi alliance?
Michael Birnbaum / D.C. Wire:
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Rob Stein / Washington Post:
‘Pro-Life’ Drugstores Market Beliefs
Natan Sharansky / Wall Street Journal:
Democracies Can't Compromise on Core Values
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Guardian
David Stout / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Rule on Bias Suit by Detainee
Discussion: The Swamp
Steven Ginsberg / The Trail:
New Staffer for Michelle Obama
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and Macsmind
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
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Matthew Yglesias:
Bringing Back Rudy  —  This David Frum article on the veepstakes …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Lieberman for Veep?  —  I wrote a story in March noting …
Discussion: MyDD
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
Looking to Avoid Aggressive Drivers? Check Those Bumpers.
Discussion: The New Republic
William Kristol / New York Times:
Big Tim  —  Before he was a journalist, Tim Russert, who died suddenly Friday, was a pol.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
BBC:
Honda makes first hydrogen cars
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
From Jeffersons vs. Hemingses to McCain vs. Obama
Duncan Campbell / Guardian:
What do we want? George Bush. What do we get? A no-show
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Alex Kozinski's Wife Speaks Out