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For the first time, the Kaiser Family Foundation monthly tracking poll shows that more people are in favor of Obamacare than opposed. Barely, and within the margin of error, but a turn-around.

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I've long been meaning to do a strip about the incompatibility of bikes and cars, and Earth Day week seemed as good a time as any. Besides, it was either this or making fun of the clown car that is the field of Republican presidential candidates, and I'm not quite up for that yet.

The industry of anti-Clinton books has a new entry, and it's one that Republicans have been dropping hints about for weeks. The claim of Republican operative Peter Schweizer's forthcoming book, Clinton Cash, is basically that, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton sold America's foreign policy to foreign entities for donations to the Clinton Foundation and speaking fees to former President Bill Clinton.

Rekia Boyd

It's Tuesday! And this week, that means Greg Dworkin returns after a rather lengthy absence! It might not ever mean that again, but that's what it means this week. Or at least, that's what it's supposed to mean, barring anything unexpected.
So we'll have structure to the first quarter of the show again, at long last!
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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Tuesday Twain Blogging
Mark Twain, a man whose bullshit detector went to 11, died 105 years ago, on April 21, 1910. A year earlier he wrote:

I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'

More Twain:

Leading Off:
• NC Redistricting: On Monday, the Supreme Court vacated a ruling from North Carolina's highest court that had upheld Republican-drawn maps of the state's congressional and legislative districts. While we don't yet know what the final outcome will be, the court's decision could have a real impact on one of the most aggressively partisan gerrymanders in the nation.

We begin today's rondup with Eugene Robinson's take on the stalled confirmation of Loretta Lynch:

Not new. But still relevant.

Dean Baker in his "Beat the Press" blog at the Center for Economic and Policy Research writes NYT Misses Story on Redistribution: Maybe People Don't Want Government Policies that Rig the Deck for the Rich:

Alicia Vikander as Ava in Alex Garland's 'Ex Machina'