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Banned states may vote 
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean on Thursday rejected Senator Hillary Clinton's demands that the results of unsanctioned primaries in Florida and Michigan count toward the selection of the party's presidential nominee. The former Vermont governor, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, suggested Clinton and others were trying to "change the rules in the middle of the contest." He also warned that any decision to recognize the results of the two disputed primaries -- both held in January and won by Clinton -- would potentially leave supporters of Barack Obama feeling "cheated" of the Democratic nomination.

Obama targets 'secretive' Clinton's tax records 
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
By David Usborne NEW YORK - Hillary Clinton was facing fresh questions yesterday over her private political and financial records after revelations that the presidential library of her husband is blocking the release of more than 1,000 pages of documents pertaining to pardons doled out in the twilight of his presidency. After losing his momentum last week in the slog for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama is preparing to pay Mrs Clinton back for her negative attacks on him, particularly by highlighting her reluctance to release these and other records, including the family tax returns.

Bill Clinton Stumps for Hillary in Miss. 
The Associated Press -
Bill Clinton ran down Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's resume and legislative record, and reminded the audience at a high school here that he and former president George H.W. Bush raised millions of dollars for Mississippi after the storm on Aug. 29, 2005. George W. Bush's administration's response to the hurricane sent a message that "cronyism is more important than competence," Bill Clinton said, referring to the slow response under former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown.

Clinton's experience: 'Tribune does us all a service' 
Baltimore Sun - United States
Hillary Clinton's campaign claim to foreign policy experience – well Mike Dorning and Christi Parsons -- examinng Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign claim to foreign policy experience and finding "scant evidence'' of deep participation in big events. Clinton claimed that she "helped to bring peace" to Northern Ireland and negotiated with Macedonia to open up its border to refugees from Kosovo. "Both claims are ludicrously untrue,'' Sullivan writes at Atlantic.com. "All she did in Northern Ireland was have tea with some local peace activist women. "Laura Bush could argue, by that token, that she has ended AIDS in Africa.''

Obama, Clinton Tied for Support Among Democrats, Newsweek Says 
Bloomberg - USA
By Catherine Larkin March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are tied for support among Democrats, according to a nationwide poll by Newsweek. The poll shows 45 percent of Democrats and Democratic- leaning voters said they would most like to see Obama nominated for the presidency, compared with 44 percent who favored Clinton. The difference is well within the 5 percentage-point margin of error for Democrats in the survey.