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April 24, 2008

GOP 2008: Have we hit Peak McCain? [Karl]

Although the headlines this week were dominated by the Clinton Obama cage match in Pennsylvania and its aftermath, the undercard may have been the number of pundits wondering whether this was the best week John McCain was going to have in this campaign. New York magazine ran a lengthy piece from John Heilemann wondering whether McCain really was this year’s Bob Dole and listing McCain’s vulnerabilities in a general election,

The Great Refusal [Dan Collins]

Karl Rove reflects on Obama and fleshes out the picture with commentary that seems similar to what I was saying yesterday about Think Progress.  In his meta-commentary, Ed Morrissey calls him the Jon Stewart candidate: Unfortunately for Obama and the Democrats who have carried him so close to the finish line, that “fierce urgency of now” is nothing more than a soundbite for a legislator who doesn’t legislate, an agent