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Washington Post:
Clinton Widens Lead in Poll — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has consolidated her place as the front-runner in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, outpacing her main rivals in fundraising in the most recent quarter and widening her lead in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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October 3, 2007 - Clinton Tops Giuliani By 11 Points In New York State, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Favorite Son And Daughter Dominate Party Primaries — Sen. Hillary Clinton leads the Republican front-runner, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani 52 - 41 percent in the 2008 …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Steals Obama's Fund-Raising Thunder — A major dynamic behind the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination — fund-raising — shifted yesterday as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign announced that it had beaten Senator Barack Obama in donations since July …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Parsing the Polls: Inside the Clinton Surge — It doesn't take a polling expert to understand that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's showing in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll is a major moment in the campaign. — Clinton, as the Post's Anne Kornblut and Jon Cohen write in today's newspaper …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Hillary Chuckles; Pundits Snort — Clinton's Robust Yuks Lead To Analysis of Appeal of Laughter — Forget the cleavage. It's now about the cackle. — No joke: Hillary Clinton's laugh is now being analyzed, scrutinized and, yes, mocked as if it were a sound barrier on her glide path …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Edwards says Obama using stolen ideas — Former Sen. John Edwards's (D-N.C.) campaign widened its sights Tuesday to include Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and his foreign policy speech commemorating the five-year anniversary of his first speech against the Iraq war.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Limbaugh Latest Victim in War of Condemnation — Having abandoned for now their effort to force President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq, Democrats are not giving ground against a lesser nemesis: Rush Limbaugh. — With the help of liberal advocacy groups, the Democrats in Congress …
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Fox News:
Limbaugh Broadcaster Comes to Radio Host's Defense — WASHINGTON — The owner of the company that airs Rush Limbaugh's show has come to his defense, telling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that while he isn't certain to whom Limbaugh was referring when he used the term "phony soldiers," …
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Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
SCHIP slips as Dems trip over message — Democratic leaders on Tuesday moved quickly to shift public attention to President Bush's expected veto of a children's health insurance program from a surtax to pay for the war in Iraq. — Democrats had been reveling in their good fortune …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Battle lines are drawn over conservative radio — House Republicans are threatening to launch a discharge petition on legislation that would ensure the future prosperity of conservative radio talk-show hosts but is expected to face opposition from Democratic leaders.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Clear Channel CEO responds to Reid
Clear Channel CEO responds to Reid
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Clear Channel Responds To Rush Protest Letter From Senate Democrats
Clear Channel Responds To Rush Protest Letter From Senate Democrats
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Pakistan Seen Losing Fight Against Taliban And Al-Qaeda — PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan's government is losing its war against emboldened insurgent forces, giving al-Qaeda and the Taliban more territory in which to operate and allowing the groups to plot increasingly ambitious attacks …
The Corner:
The War Against Rush — It's interesting that the Dems' attack against Rush is taking place at the same time Clarence Thomas's riveting autobiography hits the bookshelves, because both illustrate one of the central features of contemporary politics: the Left's loss of intellectual coherence and confidence …
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Associated Press:
Soldiers hunt dissidents in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar - Soldiers announced that they were hunting pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar's largest city Wednesday and the top U.S. diplomat in the country said military police were pulling people out of their homes during the night.
New York Times:
From Errand to Fatal Shot to Hail of Fire to 17 Deaths — It started out as a family errand: Ahmed Haithem Ahmed was driving his mother, Mohassin, to pick up his father from the hospital where he worked as a pathologist. As they approached Nisour Square at midday on Sept. 16 …