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11:30 PM ET, August 6, 2008

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Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Poll: Trouble Signs in Obama's Lead  —  After two weeks of sharpened attacks between the campaigns, Barack Obama is maintaining a narrow 5% lead over John McCain in the race for the White House, a new TIME poll shows.  Overall, the poll shows Obama leading McCain 46% to 41% when undecided voters …
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CBS News:
CBS Poll: Obama Holding Off McCain  —  New CBS News Poll Shows Obama Overseas Trip, McCain Ads Failed To Alter Still-Fluid Race  —  (CBS) Barack Obama leads John McCain 45 percent to 39 percent in the latest CBS News poll.  Despite Obama's highly-publicized foreign trip …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 44%  —  As has been case most of this summer, Obama has slight margin  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on registered voters' presidential preferences shows Barack Obama with a two point advantage over John McCain, 46% to 44%.
Discussion: Power Line
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Obama squeaks by McCain in polls
Rich Lowry / The Corner:
“Poll: Trouble Signs in Obama's Lead”
Discussion: Hot Air and American Spectator
Associated Press:
Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama
National Enquirer:
THE PHOTOS EVERYONE'S BEEN WAITING FOR!  —  The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is releasing the photograph that the world has been waiting for - the first-ever picture of John Edwards and his love child!  —  The stunning “spy photo” shows the former presidential contender holding his infant daughter Frances Quinn Hunter …
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New York Post:
NOVEL TALE OF POL'S ‘MISTRESS’  —  RIELLE Hunter - the woman reported by the National Enquirer to be John Edwards' mistress and mother of his love child - is no stranger to fans of Jay McInerney.  The novelist dated the blonde for a few months in the late 1980s and based his book “Story of My Life” on her.
ABCNEWS:
Sen. Hillary Clinton Seeks Democratic Convention Voice  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton Not Ruling Out Having Name Put Up for Vote in Denver  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton told a gathering of supporters last week that she's looking for a “strategy” for her delegates to have their voices heard and …
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Karen Tumulty / Time:
Have the Clintons Gotten Over It?  —  The July 31 cocktail reception outside Palo Alto, Calif., had been billed as an evening for letting bygones be bygones, a coming together of Hillary Clinton's Silicon Valley backers with Barack Obama's to help the New York Senator retire her campaign debt.
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
WRONG. . .WRONG. . .WRONG: Obama Lets Muslim Advisor Resign  —  Will anyone notice?  Barack Obama's team just threw its key Muslim advisor under the bus.  —  Barack Obama needs to make a statement loudly, clearly, and with passion that he embraces Muslims as much as any other Americans of Christian …
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SteveK / TVNewser:
Ross Responds to “Vital Questions” About Anthrax Report  —  The ongoing anthrax case appears to be over, as more information is revealed following the suicide of the leading suspect, Army scientist Bruce Ivins.  —  But with the end of the case comes a small but vocal group who still …
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Shannen Coffin / The Corner:
Obama in Knots over Cheney  —  Barack Obama's criticism of Vice President Cheney is as incoherent as his energy policy.  On the stump yesterday, Obama reportedly “emphasized the key role of Cheney, the unpopular vice president, in President Bush's energy policy.”
Discussion: Associated Press
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Amanda Carpenter / TownHall Blog:
WaPo Blows A1 McCain Story  —  Hours after blogging about the problems in Washington Post reporter Matthew Mosk's A1 story, this correction was posted online: … That means these people Mosk alleged had been somehow forced to make campaign contributions to McCain through a third-party bundler NEVER DONATED MONEY TO MCCAIN.
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Amanda Carpenter / TownHall Blog:
Who are these Donors the WaPo Found?
Bruce Feirstein / Vanity Fair:
For Whom the Times Polls  —  Back in the days when I was writing political advertising—in the pre-Internet, pre-War Room era—the single most coveted piece of information we tried to ascertain was the polling research done by our opponents.  —  Not the answers so much, but the questions.
Discussion: Gawker
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Gabe Sherman / The New Republic:
The Poll Truth, and Nothing But
Discussion: Gawker
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Hans Down To The Wire?  —  Well, well.  Look who allegedly spent a little time under oath in front of a federal grand jury: it's Mr. Hiding the Sockpuppet, Hans Von Spakovsky.  Via Murray Waas: … I'd like to say that I'm shocked, but after the last two reports on politicization …
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
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Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
Justice Department Subpoenas Its Former Lawyers In Civil Rights Probe
Discussion: D-Day and TPMMuckraker
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Kelly McParland / National Post:
Ezra Levant: How I beat the fatwa, and lost my freedom
Discussion: The Corner and Hot Air
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Nasty Attack Ad Hits Jewish Dem Congressman For Visiting “Our Churches”  —  This brutal new attack ad from House candidate Nikki Tinker, who is challenging liberal Tennessee Rep. Steven Cohen in tomorrow's Democratic primary, just might be the nastiest, most race-baiting (and Jew-baiting) ad of the entire cycle:
Vinnie / The Jawa Report:
Dear Reader  —  I don't care if you're left, right, up, down or in between, isn't this what's known as an act of war?  If not, maybe what we get on page two is? … I'm just wondering how many times our bloodthirsty, hegemonic, imperial military has made incursions across the border into Mexico.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Bin Laden's Former Driver Is Convicted in Split Verdict  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A panel of six military officers convicted a former driver for Osama bin Laden of one war crime Wednesday but acquitted him of another, completing the first military commission trial here and the first conducted …
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Steve Gill / Pajamas Media:
Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat  —  The environment guru has a big house, flies in big planes... and now captains a big boat.  —  Former Vice President Al Gore, the Nobel-winning self-proclaimed global prophet of green, has made a lot of money from the so-called “crisis” of global warming.
Andrew Perez / The New Argument:
Those Damn Kids!  —  On Tuesday night, TNA writer Lonnie Affrime spotted the Straight Talk Express in the parking lot of an Embassy Suites in Boca Raton, FL.  He noticed an unusual decal on the back of Sen. John McCain's whip and, as any good American would do, took a few pictures.
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Milbank's Move  —  Yesterday, I wrote on Dana Milbank's abrupt departure from “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” which at first seemed to directly follow a disagreement over the Washington Post columnist's July 30 column calling Obama “presumptuous.”  —  However, Milbank's dissatisfaction …
Discussion: The Corner
The Huffington Post:
Has McCain Walked Into An Energy Trap?  —  The energy debate took what could be a significant turn this past weekend: a bipartisan effort in Congress has created headaches for both Barack Obama and John McCain.  But while the presumptive Democratic nominee has been criticized for acquiescing …
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Greyhound scraps ‘bus rage’ ads after bus beheading  —  TORONTO - Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.  —  The ad's tag line was “There's a reason you've never heard of ‘bus rage.’”
 
 
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Paul Flemming / Tallahassee Democrat:
McCain campaign apologizes to reporter
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Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
GOP's Pawlenty praises Obama's positive message
MSNBC:
‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ for Tuesday, August 5
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Washington Wire:
McCain Calls for Economic Surge
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