Daily Polichicks: Friday

Campaign '08:

Hillary Clinton works at a Bob Evans restaurant in Ohio. [The New York Times]

Hillary Clinton raised $35 million in February. [AP]

RNC dencounced Tennessee state Republican party's use of Barack Obama's middle name in a press release. [CNN]

Barack Obama slammed President Bush and John McCain for failed leadership that he says led to an economic recession. [MSNBC]

Rep. John Lewis switches support from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama. [The Los Angeles Times]

Ralph Nader's veep choice is Matt Gonzalez,  a lawyer and former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. [The New York Times]

New poll says John McCain bests both Clinton and Obama.  McCain leads Clinton by 6 points and Obama by 2. [The Los Angeles Times]

U.S. News:

NBC News decided against airing President Bush's news conference Thurday, because the network wants to promote MSNBC as the place to watch NBC news.  The move is noteworthy because NBC was already airing news programming at the time of Bush's news conference and rivals ABC and CBS pre-empted regular programming to show it. [USA Today]

Dr. Vincent Harding, former speechwriter and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks on King's often overlooked antiwar and economic justice activism. [Democracy Now]

World News:

Britain's Defense Ministry says Prince Harry will withdraw from his front line post in Afghanistan, where he has been fighting since December.  The Ministry says news leaks of the prince's location have jeopardized Harry and his unit. [The Washington Post]

Iraq approved the execution of "Chemical Ali" (Ali Hassan al-Majeed) for his role in chemical weapons attacks that killed over 100,000 Kurds in the 1980s.  [CNN]