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FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Chill out. That’s Former President Bill Clinton’s advice to Democrats who think the race between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has gone on too long.

He says that letting all of the voters have their say will actually strengthen the party.

This comes on the heels of two senior senators, Patrick Leahy and Chris Dodd, themselves Obama supporters, calling for Hillary Clinton to pull out of the race — something she says she won’t do.

Clinton told the Washington Post that she would take her campaign all the way to the convention floor if need be.

Barack Obama says that Clinton has every right to stay in the race as long as she wants to.

Meanwhile — Obama picked up an endorsement today from Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota… he’s also expected to get the backing of North Carolina’s seven Democratic house members. Party officials say that Klobuchar, like her colleague in the Senate, Bob Casey who endorsed Obama on Friday, had planned to remain neutral. Klobuchar is also a superdelegate whose vote could help decide the fate of the democratic race.

Another good sign for Obama is a new Gallup national tracking poll shows him with an eight point lead over Hillary Clinton, 51 to 43 percent. Over the weekend, Obama topped Clinton by ten points which was the first double digit lead that either candidate has had over the other since February when Clinton was leading Obama by 11 percentage points. A new pew poll out today also has Obama up by ten points.

Here’s my question to you: Bill Clinton says that Democrats need to “chill out” and let the election process play out. Is he right?

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FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Bill Clinton was once famously dubbed America’s “first black president” and both Clintons have enjoyed tremendous popularity among African-Americans. That is, perhaps until now.

Last night, Hillary Clinton found herself apologizing to black voters. She said she was sorry for her husband’s comments after the South Carolina primary, which Barack Obama won. At the time, Bill Clinton said Jesse Jackson had also won the state when he ran for president – a comment seen as belittling Barack Obama’s victory. Hillary Clinton said she was sorry if anyone was offended and claims that’s not how it was meant.

Clinton also responded to Geraldine Ferraro’s remarks that Obama wouldn’t have made it this far if he were white. Clinton said she repudiates and deeply regrets those comments, adding that Ferraro doesn’t speak for her. Ferraro resigned last night from Clinton’s campaign finance committee.

Apologies aren’t something we’re used to hearing out of Hillary Clinton’s mouth. In fact, many have been disappointed that she’s refused to apologize for her vote to authorize the war in Iraq. The closest Clinton has come is to say she regrets it.

Heartfelt or not, her apologies to African-Americans have become a political necessity. Consider that in a poll taken last October, black Democrats preferred Clinton to Obama by a margin of 57% to 33%. Fast forward five months. These days, Obama is winning as much as 80% to 90% of the black vote.

Here’s my question to you: How much damage has been done to the Clintons’ standing in the African-American community by Bill Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro?
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FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are not that far apart on many of the issues. But when it comes to their spouses, the differences couldn’t be more glaring.

The Wall Street Journal reports today about the evolving role of Michelle Obama. The Princeton and Harvard Law-educated wife of the democratic front-runner has become an influential adviser. She’s been nicknamed “the closer” because she often pushes harder to seal the deal with voters than Barack does. She generally stays away from discussing policy and strategy, but gets very involved with issues that affect her personally, like being a working mom.

Michelle has also given people a peek into their personal lives: Barack snores and doesn’t put the butter back in the refrigerator.

She says part of her role is to “give people yet another slice of who Barack is, making him even more multidimensional.” She says her comments about his foibles were so people wouldn’t “deify” him.

Then there is the other spouse in the race. That would be the 42nd president of the United States. Quoting the Journal story, Bill Clinton has “come across at times as the empathetic, seasoned onetime leader of the free world – but at other times as the red-faced, argumentative attack-dog-in-chief.”

Some suggest he may have hurt Hillary, especially with some of the things he said in South Carolina. Since then, it seems like the campaign has toned down Clinton’s role, and he hasn’t been going on the attack against Obama.

Here’s my question to you: When it comes to the candidates’ spouses, who is more valuable: Bill Clinton or Michelle Obama?

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