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March 4, 2008
Morning Buzz
Posted: 06:45 AM ET

Morning Folks!!! Big day today in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island…Polls show a tight race in Texas, and Clinton with the edge in Ohio. John McCain appears to have both states locked up, but hey ya never know…. SO stay tuned to CNN for all the results.  A few other headlines to chew over this morning, but politics seems to be dominating the headlines, so grab your coffee and lets get to today’s Morning Buzz… 

Top Stories
Suicide blast kills 5 in Pakistan…
A suicide bomber, prevented from entering a naval college in Pakistan, set off explosives that killed at least five people and wounded 15 others Tuesday, an army official told CNN.

Iraqi helicopter missing…
An Iraqi army helicopter with two officers on board went missing north of Baghdad early Tuesday during bad weather, security officials told CNN.

Raw Politics
Clinton hammers Obama…
Sen. Hillary Clinton Monday questioned her Democratic rival’s commitment to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, a charge that Sen. Barack Obama’s camp called a “blatant distortion.”

Geography may decide who wins Ohio…
A campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination that has pivoted on race and gender could be decided here today by another divide, the state’s urban north versus the rural south — pitting Ohio’s popular governor against a cadre of big-city mayors.

Texas weighs in…
Their race stubbornly tight, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama blitzed Texas on Monday in a final surge of campaigning for Tuesday’s primary.

Clinton to continue despite outcome…
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to press on in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after critical primary tests in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, even as advisers to Sen. Barack Obama said the latest round of voting would do little to improve her standing in a race in which she has been dealt setback after setback.

As Ohio goes, so does the Nation…
The presidential spotlight shines on this Midwestern state every four years, and for good reason. As Ohio goes, so goes the nation–at least for the past 44 years.

Who has WON what…what is at stake?

Crime & Punishment
Memphis shooting…
Six people were killed, including two children, and another three children wounded in a shooting Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said.

Teen & boyfriend spents months planning killing…
A high school couple forced to break up spent about a month plotting to kill the girl’s parents before her mother and two younger brothers were fatally shot and stabbed in a weekend ambush, according to records released Monday.


Keeping Them Honest
Ecoterrorism…
Fire engulfed five luxury homes Monday morning at a subdivision north of Seattle in what could be a case of ecoterrorism, officials said.

Case against a drug maker…
A 4-to-4 vote on Monday left the Supreme Court unable to decide a pharmaceutical pre-emption case that was argued a week ago.

What YOU will be talking about TODAY
None of it is true…
In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.

Avalanche on Mars…
The image, taken last month, reveals at least four avalanches of fine ice and dust breaking off from a steep cliff and settling on the slope below. The cascade kicked up massive debris clouds, with some measuring more than 590 feet across.

5 Comments
5 Comments
Victor Cornfoot   March 4th, 2008 8:55 am ET

welcome to the real super Tuesday. I hope for the sake of the democratic party someone finally throws in the towel.

Victor Cornfoot   March 4th, 2008 9:05 am ET

This Canadian story is a non story. It’s recieving way to much press on both sides of the border. NAFTA is not the biggest problem America faces. In fact who ever becomes President, this issue will fall to the wayside very quickly and won’t be heard from for a long time. time to drop it. Besides changing NAFTA will take more than just a few months. In all likelihood it could take years, and governments from all three countries to be of like mind mind when it comes to policy and politics.

Kelly   March 4th, 2008 9:52 am ET

Can just one candidate step forward and address the issues of how they are going to solve the escalating crime rate, murder rate, child abductions and the like. When are we going to fix what really ails us as a country from the inside out instead of focusing just Social Security and Health Care.

Tim   March 4th, 2008 11:37 am ET

Our fascination with celebrity endorsements borders on idiotic. Why do we seriously care about the opinion of someone who gets overpaid to pretend for a living?!

Susan   March 4th, 2008 12:55 pm ET

I am a regular viewer of AC 360 and the CNN election coverage in general. You are the best!!!!

I do not participate in the live chats while viewing AC 360, but I do read the comments the next day.

I think that is human nature to want to defend someone that you like and when that person is on the receiving end of some negative attention, this is when we all preceive some kind of bias against them.

Anderson Cooper in his blog last nite asked the question of preceived bias from viewers that do not support either one of the Democratic candidates. I do not support either one of these candidates because the fiscal side of all their programs has not been dealt with to my satisfaction. So, in answer to AC’s question, I think that the press has been a lot harder ( or biased– if you want to use that term) on Senator Clinton and Senator Obama ( up until just recently ) has been given a pass.

My comment is not meant to be mean spirted, just my observation.

Susan
Phoenixville,PA

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