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In an article urging both McCain and Obama not to pander to the Ron Paul crowd, Earl Ofari Hutchinson says this:

Fewer editorials and more investigative reporting on the financial backers behind Eric Crafton's English Only ballot initiative, please.

I know that editorials sell papers, but don't journalists have some obligation to dig up valuable information that no nonjournalist can?

From the Washington Post:

Democrats eager to tamp down talk of disappointed primary voters bolting to John McCain point to the “fact” that a majority of McCain’s own backers threatened to vote for Al Gore when George W. Bush secured the Republican nomination in 2000.

The Tennessean: Some Clinton backers don't warm to Obama

Rush bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee has donated close to 200 baseballs, all autographed by former Negro Leagues baseball players or backers, to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.

From ABC NEWS:

Clinton Says Goodbye to Campaign Staff
Former First Lady Prepares to End Historic Presidential Bid
By KATE SNOW, ELOISE HARPER, SUNLEN MILLER and JENNIFER PARKER
June 4, 2008

The Huffington Post reports that Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to New York for an important speech tomorrow night.

Hillary Clinton will make a speech tomorrow night from New York. Barack Obama will be in New York on Wednesday. Will they appear together? Who knows. But tomorrow night could be it. (It seems today I'm destined to not get any sleep!)

From Huffington Post:

Greg Sargent reports that Al Gore is joining the fight, ever so subtly, to unite the party behind one candidate: