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The Daily Clinton

A quick tour through the crushing coverage of Hillary Clinton's announcement:

Glenn Thrush of Newsday reports on Clinton pollster Mark Penn's salvo against her primary opponents. Penn's memo, released on Saturday in conjunction with Hillary's announcement, can be read in full here.

The New York Daily News conducted a poll of NYC voters and found her beating Obama 49% to 23% among registered Democrats, handily winning among blacks, Latinos, and women. Opposite the relatively positive news is another story in the Daily News (reporting on the aforementioned Penn memo) titled "Tough Road Ahead for Hillary."

Anne Kornblut of the Washington Post writes that Clinton's appearance yesterday gives a "glimpse" of how she'll cast herself as a Preidential candidate: "the mother of a daughter, as a serious student of policy and as a two-term senator from New York." Patrick Healy covers the same beat in the New York Times.

Tom Baldwin of the Times of London: "Clinton aims to show she is tough and a bit tender."

Jill Lawrence of USA Today revisits the issue of Clinton's electability - or lack thereof - calling the former First Lady a "complicated package." That's probably an understatement.

If you care what the British left thinks, the Guardian editorializes about Hillary's odds of winning before concluding: "There is little doubt that if she prevails Hillary Clinton will be a worthy winner with the potential to be the worthy president that the United States so badly needs after the catastrophe of the present incumbent."

If you can stomach any more coverage, read Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times and Linda Feldmann of the Christian Science Monitor.