Via John Aravosis over at AmericaBlog: The lovely Ms. Hilton responds to McCain’s ad, saying that apparently now she’s running for president:
“See you at the debate, b*tches.”

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Ruh-roh:
People would rather barbecue burgers with Barack Obama than with John McCain.
While many are still deciding who should be president, by 52 percent to 45 percent they would prefer having Obama than McCain to their summer cookout, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Wednesday.
And we all know this is the most important factor […]

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Tempted to pile on re: McCain advisor Charlie Black’s comments that a terror attack before November would be “Certainly it would be a big advantage” for McCain; it indeed comes perilously close to actively pining for a terrorist attack, but I doubt that’s what Black really thinks. Rather, I think he has the usual knee-jerk assumption […]

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In a country where gas is over $4 per gallon, we’re stuck in the Mideast, levees are overflowing the length of the Mississippi River and the mortgage crisis continues to claim victims, I totally think we should spend our time debating whether one candidate’s wife is insufficiently patriotic. Because what could possibly be more important?

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Well, not really. But maybe you’ll find your reason.

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Saw some of McCain’s utterly underwhelming speech last night - to “literally dozens” of people, snarked Attaturk over at Atrios’s place. Also saw Obama’s speech. Ditto Sullivan:
It was also rhetorically more powerful than McCain - not by a small amount but by a mile. Put McCain’s speech against Obama’s - and this was a wipe-out. […]

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Interesting bit over at Politico, maybe yet more signs that the wind has shifted:
“It’s clear to us that Barack Obama has won the Drudge Primary, and it’s one of the most important primaries in this process,” conceded a senior aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who also acknowledged that Drudge’s treatment of Obama could make the Illinois […]

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Takes Al-Jazeera to do this kind of report, I suppose. It’s right on the money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8J9laUNgL4

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We’ve lived in a political culture where, for the past seven-plus years but really longer than that, Republicans have defined themselves - and then been defined by popular culture - as strong and aggressive. Democrats, by contrast, were weaklings and whiners.
Boy, how things are changing.

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ABC News now reporting Obama has taken the lead with superdelegates, too.

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Sullivan links to a piece, maybe in part because it mentions him in glowing terms - but also because it makes some points we’re all losing sight of as Hillary chases her white whale:
Considering how much attention mass media has spent on electoral politics it has missed the elephant in the room (pardon the pun): […]

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You know, why must we over-analyze everything?
So here we have a Reuters piece about how Hillary’s gas tax holiday business was a big gift to Obama in Indiana and N.C. - which it undoubtedly was. The trouble begins when Reuters attempts to tell us why:
The fight, which dominated the final days before the North Carolina and […]

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Will Bunch catches a line by longtime Clinton advisor Harold Ickes:
“We don’t know enough about Senator Obama yet. We don’t need an October Surprise. And (the chance of) an October Surprise with Hillary is remote.”
Notes Bunch:
This remark is dismaying on several levels, partly because Ickes is virtually channeling Karl Rove, who implied something similar in […]

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And why not, because that’s what we’ll all be doing later tonight anyway.
Most prognosticators see a Hillary win in Indiana tonight - 5 points or so, probably - but Drudge is reporting that some on her staff expect a “stinging” defeat in North Carolina - a loss by 15 points or more.
If this bears out, dunno […]

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Matt Yglesias’s succinct explanation for why - with the economy falling apart, a worldwide food crisis, unending war in the Mideast and everything else - we continue to talk about character and lapel pins and the like:
Realistically, the number of people who have any awareness of “actual policymaking” is pretty tiny and I think most […]

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A reader chimes in with some questions about how it is Lancaster County Dems went for Obama Tuesday night:
1. Are Democrats here more pacifist than Democrats in the rest of the state, and are Obama’s higher numbers partly attributable to a search for the closest thing to an anti-war candidate that this race has to […]

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Sullivan posts this note about why people vote Hillary, and I think it’s right on the money:
What they know about Clinton is that she was a part of the Administration that spent eight years talking about issues that were important to them and presiding over an era of peace and prosperity. So what they are […]

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So Hillary picks up at least 80 delegates, Obama at least 66. Obama still enjoys a healthy lead - but neither candidate now is expected to get the 2,025 delegates needed to win this thing by the end of the primary season in June.
As noted last night, I do think Obama represents the future of […]

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Hillary by 10, John King on CNN right now noting how she crushed Obama in the typical white, working class enclaves - Scranton, Reading, etc.
Funny that Lancaster would be among the more urbanized counties going for Obama. In any event; snap judgment here is that Hillary’s got a good argument now that your typical blue […]

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Terry McAuliffe on my teevee right now celebrating Hillary’s win -CNN calling it for her tho at this point it’s only 53-47 Hillary - and Terry talks about “all the negative advertising” the Obama campaign engaged in during the Pennsylvania campaign.
Give me a break.
More - Blitzer asks Terry, what if she only wins by a […]

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