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12 Mar 08
Washington Times: Franken leads Coleman for seat in Minnesota
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The Minnesota native, 56, who moved back to his home state from New York in 2005, is leading incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman 49 percent to 46 percent in the latest Rasmussen poll
02 Mar 08
Ari Berman / The Nation: The Dean Legacy
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Dean is no longer a marginalized figure, the butt of "Dean scream" jokes, but a man with a powerful constituency in regions where his fifty-state strategy has energized aging, ailing or previously nonexistent state parties
Time: A Mexican Take on the Primary Race
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Living hundreds of miles away from black-Hispanic tensions that plague some U.S. cities, many here identify with Obama as a person of color challenging a traditionally white power structure
28 Feb 08
Talking Points Memo: Tennessee GOP Smears Obama With Alleged Ties to Anti-Semitism and Farrakhan
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Two days ago, the Tennessee Republican Party put out a press release entitled "Anti-Semites For Obama," accusing "Barack Hussein Obama" of being anti-Israel and linked to Louis Farrakhan
25 Feb 08
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post: Who Will Tell Hillary?
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I listened in on last Wednesday's news media conference calls by Clinton campaign managers Mark Penn and Harold Ickes in the wake of her Wisconsin drubbing. Incredibly, they were hawking the same plagiarism charge that had just proved ineffective
Washington Times: Loss of 28 in House makes GOP task tougher
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At least 28 House Republicans have announced they won't seek re-election this year, against just five Democrats stepping down in November
Los Angeles Times: They're Republican red, and true blue to Obama
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GOP renegades seeking a candidate capable of ending the Washington partisanship are surfacing in the senator's campaign in surprising numbers
24 Feb 08
New York Times: The Candidates Disagree on Where to Fight: Iraq or Afghanistan?
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So, has Afghanistan now become a bigger security threat to the United States than Iraq? The three leading contenders for the presidential nominations have staked out positions that differ radically, along party lines
Washington Post: Could Obama Turn Red States Blue?
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Of the 14 red states Obama has won in this nominating contest, half of them haven't voted for a Democrat for president in a general election in more than 40 years
Clark Hoyt / NY Times: What That McCain Article Didn’t Say
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It did not say what convinced the advisers that there was a romance. It did not make clear what McCain was admitting when he acknowledged behaving inappropriately — an affair or just an association with a lobbyist that could look bad. And it did not say whether Weaver, the only on-the-record source, believed there was a romance
New York Times: On Center Stage, a Candidate Letting His Confidence Show
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“Listen, I’m a black guy named Barack Obama running for president. You want to tell me that I’m not tough enough?”
New York Times: Somber Clinton Soldiers On as the Horizon Darkens
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“That said, she knows that there will be an end,” Ms. Hope said. “She is a very smart woman”
23 Feb 08
Chicago Tribune: Favor wins Clinton fervent Ohio aid
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Ted Strickland might be Sen. Hillary Clinton's last, best hope
Michael Signer / Washington Post: It's a Scary World. Don't Campaign Reporters Care?
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Mostly you had to look to the blogs -- places such as the Atlantic Online, the American Prospect, TPMCafe and Democracy Arsenal -- for serious, sustained foreign policy reporting
22 Feb 08
New York Sun: Obama's Brain Trust Taking Shape
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he national security team that emerges around Mr. Obama is one that is in the mainstream of the Democratic Party
New Republic: The Long Run-Up
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The publication of the article capped three months of intense internal deliberations at the Times over whether to publish the negative piece and its most explosive charge about the affair. It pitted the reporters investigating the story, who believed they had nailed it, against executive editor Bill Keller, who believed they hadn't
New York Times: Spending by Clinton Campaign Worries Supporters
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s latest campaign finance report, published Wednesday night, appeared even to her most stalwart supporters and donors to be a road map of her political and management failings
21 Feb 08
Chuck Todd / MSNBC: Can Barack Obama be stopped?
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My guess is he'll pick up a net of 20 superdelegates before March 4. That's based on more than a hunch but I'll leave it at that
Politico: McCain camp vows to 'go to war' with NYT
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According to Black, the Times only went with the story now because The New Republic was set to run a piece next Monday about internal dissensions at the paper over whether to run the long-held article
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