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6:40 AM ET, August 7, 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%.
Rich Lowry / The Corner:
“Poll: Trouble Signs in Obama's Lead”
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.
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
FBI/DOJ Briefing on the Case Against Bruce Ivins Oh, PS: Ivins was a Registered, Real, Vote-in-Every-Primary Democrat; Lefty Blogs Begin Doubting His Guilt Based on This  —  An NPR report details evidence already mentioned.  —  Some highlights from the briefing:  —  * “Sole suspect” in investigation
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The Smoking Gun:   Inside The Anthrax Probe
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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Mark Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Tabloid's claims threaten Edwards' role at party's convention  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Sen. John Edwards has a deadline to save his spot on the national stage.  —  With two weeks to go before their national convention, a number of Democrats are saying that Edwards needs …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Flopping Aces and DBKP
Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
Justice Department Subpoenas Its Former Lawyers In Civil Rights Probe  —  A federal grand jury has subpoenaed several former senior Justice Department attorneys for an investigation into the politicization of the Department's own Civil Rights Division, according to sources close to the investigation.
Discussion: D-Day and TPMMuckraker
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Hans Down To The Wire?  —  Well, well.  Look who allegedly spent …
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
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.
Martina Stewart / CNN:
Potential McCain VP pick slams Obama's ‘life oratory’  —  (CNN) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is widely rumored to be on Sen. John McCain's short list of potential vice presidential picks, displayed his skills as a political attack dog Wednesday.  —  “Senator McCain's life experiences are epic …
Discussion: MSNBC and TIME.com
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Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:   GOP's Pawlenty praises Obama's positive message
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:
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
‘Find Out Where His Kids Go to School’  —  “Former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel was caught on tape last week telling a crowd in Washington, D.C., that they should harass a federal prosecutor who helped bring criminal contempt charges against a Palestinian activist,” Fox News reports.
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New York Times:
500: Deadly U.S. Milestone in Afghan War  —  Not long after Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski was killed by a sniper's bullet last Sept. 23 in eastern Afghanistan, his mother received an e-mail message with a link to a video on the Internet.  A television reporter happened to have been filming …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Felisa Cardona / Denver Post:
Judge upholds DNC protest zones  —  A federal judge has ruled that the city and county of Denver and the U.S. Secret Service do not have to alter their security plans for the Pepsi Center portion of the Democratic National Convention.  —  Advocacy groups and the American Civil Liberties Union …
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Drunkablog
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Family's Donations to McCain Raise Questions  —  RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The Jordanian business partner of a prominent Florida businessman, who has raised more than $500,000 for Senator John McCain, appears to be at the center of a cluster of questionable donations to his presidential campaign.
Discussion: TPM Election Central
 
 
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Weekly Standard:
A Dangerous Neighbor  —  How Pakistan's deterioration harms Afghanistan.
Byron York / The Corner:
The Left and Plans for “Nuremberg-Style” Tribunals for Bush Administration Officials
Scott Shepard / Austin American-Statesman:
Lawsuit exposes rift between gays and blacks at the DNC
Ann Sanner / Associated Press:
McCain, Obama discuss movies, TV viewing habits
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Greyhound scraps ‘bus rage’ ads after bus beheading
Steven Gutkin / Associated Press:
Israel mulls military option for Iran nukes
Lisa Desjardins / CNN:
Shutdown possible over oil drilling, Gingrich says
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
 Earlier Items: 
Amanda Carpenter / TownHall Blog:
WaPo Blows A1 McCain Story
Bruce Feirstein / Vanity Fair:
For Whom the Times Polls
Discussion: The New Republic and Gawker
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama ad won't run at gas stations
Paul Flemming / Tallahassee Democrat:
McCain campaign apologizes to reporter
Discussion: TIME.com
The Huffington Post:
Has McCain Walked Into An Energy Trap?
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
CELEBRITY?  —  Andrew Sullivan makes a good point.
Discussion: MyDD and Political Machine
Damozel / I Don't Like You Either:
A Right Wing Man's Plea: Right Wing Women, Please Stop Blogging
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Milbank's Move  —  Yesterday, I wrote on Dana Milbank's abrupt …
Discussion: The Corner and TVNewser
 

 
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