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12:15 PM ET, October 3, 2007

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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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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.
Quinnipiac University News and Events:
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 …
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Media Blasphemy  —  Another day, another blasphemy against rational political analysis by the media.  This time, a new national poll from the Washington Post complete with howls of new insight: It's over. … Media polling is strange journalism.  The media both creates a story by conducting …
Discussion: The Corner
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Parsing the Polls: Inside the Clinton Surge
Discussion: Open Left and Raising Kaine
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Steals Obama's Fund-Raising Thunder
Discussion: The Politico
Washington Post:
Poll Shows Giuliani Atop An Unsettled GOP Race
Des Moines Register:
Yepsen: 1st-tier Dems' timidity on Iraq may create opening
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 …
Discussion: Right Voices
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CNN:
Bush vetoes child health insurance bill  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Wednesday vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years.  —  Bush exercised the veto at 10 a.m. ET before leaving the White House for a trip to Lancaster …
Caren Bohan / Reuters:
Bush vetoes bill on children's health care  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday vetoed a measure to expand a popular children's health care program, launching the first in a series of major battles with Democrats over domestic spending.
Discussion: Power Line
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   They Met A Tax They Didn't Like!  —  Wisconsin Rep. David Obey …
Chris Frates / The Politico:
SCHIP supporters storm Capitol Hill
Discussion: The Swamp
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Bush Vetoes Children's Health Insurance Plan
Byron York / National Review Online:
Limbaugh Makes His Case  —  On Monday evening, September 24, Rush Limbaugh was struck by a story that appeared on ABC's World News with Charles Gibson.  "A closer look tonight at phony heroes," Gibson said in his introduction to the report, which was about men who claim to be veterans but are not.
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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 …
Patrick Ruffini:
Kos Traffic Numbers Inflated by 60%  —  Yesterday, I had the good "fortune" of being frontpaged on Daily Kos.  The post sat atop the site for two hours.  According to Google Analytics, the link produced 1,164 visitors yesterday.  —  For the traffic behemoth Kos is portrayed as, that seems low …
Discussion: Riehl World View
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 …
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 …
John Stossel / Real Clear Politics:
Control Your Own Health Care  —  Candidates for president have plans to get more people health insurance.  Some would compel us to buy it; others would use the tax code to encourage that.  Regardless, insurance is the magic that will solve our health-care problems.
Associated Press:
Defiant Jimmy Carter demands Darfur passage  —  KABKABIYA, Sudan (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security officials who blocked him from a town in Darfur where he was trying to meet representatives of ethnic African refugees from the ongoing conflict.
 
 
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Rudy does end run around the right's leaders
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Federalism, Not Partition
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Voice of America:
Iranian University Invites Bush to Speak
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Democrats grapple with the fear factor
The Corner:
The War Against Rush  —  It's interesting that the Dems' attack …
Discussion: RIGHTWINGSPARKLE
Associated Press:
Soldiers hunt dissidents in Myanmar
James D. Miller / TCS Daily:
A Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
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