Politico reports today that
Capitol Hill insiders say the battle for congressional superdelegates is over, and one Senate supporter of Barack Obama is hinting strongly that he has prevailed over Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton aides deny the whole thing, noting Obama’s recent public-relations struggles. But if it’s true, it’s all over but the voting.
Interesting.
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In a look way down the road, a columnist at the New York Sun says Chris Matthews, of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” should be considered a viable Democratic candidate to challenge U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in 2010.
Specter, 78, says he plans to seek a sixth, six-year term. Matthews, 62, has largely discouraged talk of making a run.
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Why did Barack Obama feel he needed to distance himself from his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in such a definitive way yesterday?
Byron York offers a compelling answer on National Review online today:
The most damaging thing Wright could ever say is that he knows, based on his long personal relationship with Obama, that Obama […]

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An interesting Associated Press story today — about an AP-Yahoo News Service poll that shows more and more Clinton and Obama supporters saying they won’t vote for the other guy or gal if their candidate loses — includes the following puzzling phrase:
Obama supporters whose view of Clinton has dimmed see her as far less compassionate […]

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No, says John McWhorter, of the Manhattan Institute, in a column Thursday in the New York Sun.
Already many are wondering whether Mr. Obama’s inability to “close the deal,” as Mrs. Clinton has put it, with less educated whites indicates that they don’t like black people. To conclude that racism is the issue here is, however, […]

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Wow, Supreme Court dissents can be weird.
Disseting in a 6-3 ruling handed down today, Justice David Souter says asking Indiana voters to show a photo ID before casting their ballots “threatens to impose nontrivial burdens on the voting rights of tens of thousands of the state’s citizens.”
Thank goodness Souter was in the minority. Imagine the […]

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Howard Dean, the chairman of the national Democratic Party, said today that he has faith that, when the primaries are over, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama will do the right thing and drop out.

“Either of these candidates, if it’s time for them to go, they’ll know it and they will go,” Dean said.
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Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is set to speak today at the National Press Club, a day after defending himself in a speech Sunday in Detroit.
Wright’s basic defense: I am not a politician and I call them as I see them.
We can disagree, as I do, with some of his beliefs […]

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Lancaster County Republican officials are reportedly gearing up to draft a strategy to win back approximately 500 county Republicans who switched parties for the April 22 primary.
I hope they modify, or outright forget about, the approach outlined by county GOP chairman Dave Dumeyer in the Intelligencer Journal this week.
GOP overtures likely will paint Democrats as […]

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You have to wonder what the North Carolina GOP is thinking, or if it’s thinking at all.
Using clips of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to blast Democrats who’ve endorsed Barack Obama, as the state party plans to do in TV ads beginning Monday, is a stretch of a stretch.
And then to run the ad, which […]

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