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[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The results of a new Field Poll should beat the "McCain will makeCalifornia competitive" horse, or elephant we could say, for good, as Obama has opened up a 24-point lead over the presumptive Republican nominee in the state, theSan Francisco Chronicle reports. And in a further piece of encouragingnews, 80 percent of Hillary Clinton's backers in California are nowbehind Obama, which may account for some of the bump.

In the wake of the fall-out over the New Yorker's satirical cover onBarack Obama, another lesson in the foils of the first amendment hitseven closer to home, as Marcos Breton of the Sacramento Bee writesabout a former Placerville mayor who equated Obama's same with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Ladin,with the disclaimer: "if it quakes like a duck." We're not expecting anObama victory in this conservative, gold country town, but more of afuss about the sign might be something.

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