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[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Tuesday's Democratic primary is sure to be a nail-biter asthe new Field Poll shows Barack Obama only two points behind HillaryClinton, 36 percent to 34 percent, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.Absentee votes are sure to be a factor, as will youth turn-out andwhether Obama's efforts at courting Latinos pay off

What's amazing about this turn-around is that California was a 20-point Clinton slam dunk for all of last year and even the beginning of this one, write Matier and Ross in theChronicle. In addition to building momentum, Obama has applied thegrassroots approach he used in the smaller states here—no small feat ina state as large as ours.

Life on the campaign trail is both exhausting and exhilarating for candidates, aides, reporters and spouses, the LA Times reports. Thestress and fast pace can lead to defining moments in the campaign—likeHillary's emotional reaction to a woman's question in New Hampshire—orloopy interludes like Mitt Romney asking a bunch of black teens "wholet the dogs out?"

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