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Alter: Obama Nearly Clinches the Democratic Nomination | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008
Barack Obama not only nearly clinched the Democratic nomination Tuesday night. He also answered a big question about the fall campaign. The glass jaw that Hillary Clinton and John McCain thought they saw turned out to be an illusion. In the jingle of the old Timex watch ads, he took a licking and kept on ticking. Oh what a difference a week makes. April 28 was only last week but it feels like ...
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Turning Point in Democratic Presidential Nomination?
Gothamist — ... it does not seem as though Clinton's gas tax holiday brought her extra support. And Newsweek's Jonathan Alter writes that Obama's criticism of the gas tax holiday was a "huge gamble" that "paid off," "In the end Obama showed the kind of resilience that was supposed to apply only to the Clintons. ...

Hillary Wins Another Primary! [Crappy Hour]
Jezebel — futile.jpg Done and done and done and yup, even the Wall Street Journal thinks done . Hillary officially halted her frenzied schedule of telling the cable newsiverse how Good she feels and what a Good Time she's having and how Good it feels to be taking policy advice from Joe Sixpack etc. etc. How did he do it? And how did Peggy Noonan know?? We'd rather talk about Burma and Putin Jr. and the insane San Diego fraternity coke bust , but Megan and I will try to talk "delegate math" and the surreal CNN comment that ...

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