Poll: McCain In Tight Race Against Either Obama, Clinton In NY — LoHud — Neither Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama would get the support of 50 percent of New York voters against Senator John McCain, a Siena College poll found today.
With the focus on the Pennsylvania Democratic primary today, even New York has become a tight race for the presidency, Siena found.
Clinton has a four-point lead and Obama has a five-point lead over McCain, the poll found

Insults hit new low as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face showdown — TimeOnline — Hillary Clinton accused Barack Obama yesterday of being nothing more than an old-school candidate who had swapped his message of hope for dirty politics, as the Democratic rivals unleashed their most personal attacks yet on the eve of today’s Pennsylvania primary.

Fact is Obama’s risky — BostonHerald — Adams noted during the Boston Massacre trial that “Facts are stubborn things.” And it appears that, for the moment, the facts have caught up with Obama here in Massachusetts.

Obama Responds To Quest About Jimmy Carter/Hamas: “Why Can’t I Just Eat My Waffle” — SayAnything

Obama Ducks North Carolina Debate — SayAnything — Two mutually reinforcing theories on why Obama cancelled a debate next Sunday with Hillary Clinton: one, he is going to win North Carolina anyway, so why give the desperate Hillary a shot at him, and two, he is afraid of another dismal performance.

Obama on The Daily Show — TheAmericanPundit — If you haven’t been paying attention to The Daily Show, Stewart has done a bang-up job of Obama apologia through his routines. This is, obviously, just the latest.

New York Times goes after McCain again, with similar results — HotAir — Jim Rutenberg has a new beat at the New York Times, and it must be called the Get McCain desk. He co-wrote the abominable story about Vicki Iseman in February that attempted to insinuate that McCain had traded legislative favors for sexual favors, only his story didn’t have a shred of evidence of either. Today, in another page-one blockbuster, Rutenberg claims that McCain gave out legislative favors in land-swap deals — but fails to mention that they had widespread support from legislators, businessmen, and environmentalists.

Pennsylvania speaks: Will it be the snob or the liar? — Michelle Malkin — Will it be the snob or the liar? Voting began in Pennsylvania at 7am this morning. Mark Memmott has an early round-up of the Obama and Clinton morning show appearances.

Heavy Turnout in Pa — NT Times — Pennsylvania is on its way to the record turnout that election officials have been predicting for weeks, according to poll workers from across the state.
Election officials were reporting extremely heavy voter activity in many of the state’s 67 counties throughout the morning, starting with long lines reported even before the polls opened at 7 a.m.