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Select2008’s Daily News Fix for 2008-02-13

Mike Huckabee, the lone remaining challenger to Senator John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination, visited with about 30 reporters this morning for the Washington ritual Christian Science Monitor breakfast

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Barack Obama has accepted an invitation to debate Hillary Rodham Clinton in Austin, Tex. The event, co-sponsored by CNN, Univision and the Texas Democratic Party, is set for Feb. 21, ahead of the state’s March 4 hybrid caucus/primary.

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Glimpses inside the Obama campaign show, though, that while the senator had hoped his colorblind style of politics would lift the country above historic racial tensions, from Day 1 his bid for the presidency has been pulled into the thick of them.

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After storming five primaries, Sen. Barack Obama is favored to take three primaries today and two later this month, a potential run that will give him wins in nearly half the states compared with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s total of just 10 wins since Iowa.

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Wonkosphere is designed for political junkies who need to stay on top of the 2008 Presidential race. Wonkosphere tracks hundreds of blogs and web sites per day. Its patented technology identifies posts that matter, not just posts that are popular.

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Journalists — me included — have praised Intrade as a miniature version of the stock market, where the collective wisdom of the masses reveals a larger truth. But now a little backlash has begun.

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Mr. Obama’s victory was strong enough to call the race in his favor within minutes of the polls closing. Republicans are also on the ballot in today’s primaries. John McCain and Mike Huckabee battled in a tighter than expected race in Virginia.

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Senator Barack Obama rolled to victory by big margins in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. On the Republican side, Senator John McCain won in Virginia over Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas.

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The lopsided nature of Senator Barack Obama’s parade of victories on Tuesday gives him an opening to make the case that Democratic voters have broken in his favor and that the party should coalesce around his candidacy.

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How Hillary’s campaign managed itself into a ditch—and how it might get itself out

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