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1:25 AM ET, August 13, 2007

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Mark Preston / CNN:
Tommy Thompson abandons presidential bid  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is abandoning his presidential bid, his campaign announced Sunday night.  —  Thompson, who also served in the Bush Cabinet, did not meet the expectations he set for himself in the Ames Republican straw poll held Saturday.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Tommy Thompson Is First Victim of Iowa Straw Poll  —  Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson dropped out of the race for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination tonight, a day after he finished a disappointing sixth in the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa.  —  "I have no regrets about running," Thompson said in a statement released by his campaign.
John Podhoretz / The Corner:
Truth-Telling: Anybody Who Says Ames Matters Is Smoking Something Illegal  —  I hate to be nasty, but anybody who takes the Ames Straw Poll results seriously is an idiot.  A bunch of people spent ludicrous amounts of money to bus-and-truck 14,000 people to a big picnic …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
For a Joke-Telling Candidate, a Second Place Finish  —  "I can't buy you — I don't have the money," Mike Huckabee, the Arkansas Republican seeking the presidency, told Republicans at the Iowa Straw Poll this weekend.  He offered a mock frown.  —  "I can't even rent you," he said.
Discussion: CNN and No More Mister Nice Blog
USA Today:
Straw poll: Huckabee spent just $58 per vote for 2nd place and revived prospects  —  The top three finishers in the Iowa Republican Party straw poll are on talk shows today.  We'll be back later with a report on what they said.  Meanwhile, here's our own cost-benefit analysis of how they did yesterday at the Ames event:
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:   Tommy Thompson drops out of GOP race
Associated Press:
Tommy Thompson drops presidential bid
Discussion: BlueHerald
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Some Democrats Fear Voter Hillary Clinton Backlash  —  The news stories, pundits and even some of her longtime political critics are noting the seemingly inexorable political advance of Senator Hillary Clinton towards the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination — but behind the scenes …
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Mike McIntire / New York Times:   Yes, the Fund-Raising Records Fell, Just Not as Far
Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Tough talk drives Clinton effort
Discussion: Firedoglake
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Dem insiders say national polls putting Hillary ahead meaningless
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Agence France Presse:
Hardline group rallies for world Islamic rule  —  More than 70,000 members of a hardline Muslim group held a rally in Indonesia that heard calls for a caliphate — or Islamic rule — to govern the world.  —  The supporters of the Hizbut Tahrir group filled up most of an 80,000-seat sports stadium …
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Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
The GOP YouTube Debate Is Back On  —  This just in: The Republican CNN/YouTube debate, in limbo for the past few weeks, is on again.  —  But Mitt Romney, who won Saturday's Iowa straw poll and has criticized the debate format, has yet to commit to the Nov. 28 event.
Discussion: Donklephant and Wizbang
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New York Times:
Republicans' Debated YouTube Forum Is Back On  —  It looks as if the Republican presidential candidates, at least most of them, will be participating in a YouTube debate after all.  The forum is now set for Nov. 28, the Wednesday after Thanksgiving.  —  The campaigns of Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Discussion: TVNewser
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
If Thompson Runs for President, Don't Look for Him in Reruns  —  Former Senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee segued neatly from Congress back to an acting career in 2002, when he joined the cast of NBC's long-running crime series "Law & Order."  —  Now that Mr. Thompson seems poised …
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Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:   The LAT had an interesting item today, speculating about whether …
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Thompson's red truck parked, for now
Associated Press:
Italy probe unearths huge Iraq arms deal  —  PERUGIA, Italy - In a hidden corner of Rome's busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler's checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs.  What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue to something bigger.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
OBJECTIVITY....Mark Kleiman comments on the convention of objectivity in the reporting of straight news: … In theory, everyone agrees with this.  The problem is, I haven't yet come across a single person who's proposed a workable solution.  Who gets to decide whether an issue is still debatable?
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Mark Kleiman / The RBC:   "Objectivity" in political reporting
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Fred, Fred, Fred: Thompson's Challenge Has a Name  —  In the swampy soup of hopefuls for the 2008 presidential election, there is a man with a funny name.  (No, not that one.)  —  We're thinking of the one named Fred (Thompson).  —  Say it out loud.  Do it.  Fred.  Fred.  In the South, Fray-ud.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:   "Say it out loud.  Do it.  Fred.  Fred. …
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
In Fundraising's Murky Corners  —  Candidates See Little of Millions Collected by Linda Chavez's Family  —  Linda Chavez rose to prominence in the 1980s as a tart-tongued Reagan administration official and candidate for the Senate, eventually becoming a well-known Latina voice on social issues …
Steve Bainbridge / The Atlantic Online:
Annoyed by Ames ... and a Lot of Other Stuff [Stephen]  —  As I watch the coverage of the Iowa straw poll, I can't help once again feeling incredibly annoyed with the political process.  —  I live in California.  Our population is over 37 million, representing 12% of the total US population.
Bob Thomas / Associated Press:
Merv Griffin Dies at Age 82  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Merv Griffin, the entertainer turned impresario who parlayed his "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" game shows into a multimillion- dollar empire, has died.  He was 82.  —  Griffin died of prostate cancer, according to a statement …
 
 
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