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Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, an Obama Guy, today called for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race and support Barack Obama. He is the first major superdelegate to declare this publicly. And earlier this morning, Howard Dean urged the uncommitted superdelegates to make their preferences public. Unless Hillary gets all of the uncommitted superdelegates, and then steals other delegates, she will have officially lost. But does Howard Dean have a plan for the 150,000 Hessian mercenaries that Hillary has employed for her last-resort military coup? [LA Times]

James Bopp was in court this morning trying to get the federal courts to overrule the Federal Election Commission and let the makers of Hillary The Movie advertise their hit-job of a movie. The FEC ruled that advertising the movie was political advertising and subject to FEC limits; Bopp and the makers argue that they’re just selling a product. The court had its say today, though.

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