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The Influence Peddler:
Is Hillary a Sure Loser? — Jim Geraghty has a significant post on Hillary's floor and ceiling: … The actual Rasmussen release on this point is here: … Hillary has nearly universal name identification. Nearly every American has an opinion of her. And regardless of what Americans …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Poll Matching Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul Tells A Lot About Clinton, Little About Paul — A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey featuring a match-up between Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul highlights one of the perils that comes from overanalyzing poll results between candidates with different levels of name recognition.
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Zogby:
Zogby Poll: 52% Support U.S. Military Strike Against Iran — Most see Clinton as the presidential candidate best equipped to deal with Iran, followed by Giuliani and McCain—but many express uncertainty — A majority of likely voters - 52% - would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran …
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Meet Giuliani's New Brain on Foreign Policy — WASHINGTON — For all the recent attention paid to the hawkish circle of foreign policy intellectuals around Mayor Giuliani, the Giuliani campaign's version of Condoleezza Rice is a retired career foreign service officer who once worked as an aide …
Holly Ramer / Associated Press:
Giuliani: Dems Will Change Minds on Iraq
Giuliani: Dems Will Change Minds on Iraq
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Sean O'Neill / Times of London:
Lessons in hate found at leading mosques — Books calling for the beheading of lapsed Muslims, ordering women to remain indoors and forbidding interfaith marriage are being sold inside some of Britain's leading mosques, according to research seen by The Times.
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Toby Helm / Telegraph:
'Hate literature easily found at UK mosques' — Extremist literature that encourages hatred of gays, Christians and Jews can be easily found at many of Britain's mosques, according to a new survey. — Researchers for the centre-Right think tank Policy Exchange claims it found the literature …
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Iraqi Dam Seen In Danger of Deadly Collapse — AT THE MOSUL DAM, Iraq — The largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing thousands of people and flooding two of the largest cities in the country …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
New Congress at war over everything — In a closed-door meeting before the last vote on the children's health care bill, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer appealed for the support of about 30 wavering Republican lawmakers. What he got instead was a tongue-lashing, participants said.
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Condé Nast Portfolio Magazine:
Tony Snow: "Newspapers Are a Niche Market" — Hi, readers. I braved the suffocating humidity, pastel hues and abundant old people of Boca Raton to bring you insights from the American Magazine Conference. Or perhaps I should call it the American Magabrand Conference.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Happiness Gap — Some elections are defined by the gap between the rich and the poor. Others are defined by the gap between the left and the right. But this election will be shaped by the gap within individual voters themselves — the gap between their private optimism and their public gloom.
NY Daily News:
Sharpton chides Cheney over Confederate flag flap — Nobody got shot, but Vice President Cheney still fired up controversy Monday when he went hunting at a private club that hangs the Confederate flag. — A Daily News photographer captured the 3-by-5 foot Dixie flag affixed to a door …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
There Is No Crisis — I imagine some readers who haven't been hanging around these parts for all that long might have justifiably been puzzled at the reaction to Obama's decision to try to make dealing with Social Security his signature attack on Clinton. It's true that Obama didn't assert that there was some huge crisis.
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David Johnston / New York Times:
Immunity Deals Offered to Blackwater Guards — State Department investigators offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity during an inquiry into last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad — a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute …
John R. Wilke / Wall Street Journal:
How Lawmaker Rebuilt Hometown on Earmarks — Johnstown Gets Billions — With Power Broker's Aid; — FBI Questions a Contract — JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — If John Murtha were a businessman, he'd be the biggest employer in this town. — The powerful U.S. congressman has used his clout …
Associated Press:
State report says Texas has too many reports — AUSTIN — The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is declaring there are too many state reports. — It says so in a 668-page report. — The project took 18 months and included the commission's small team canvassing more than 170 agencies …
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John Solomon / Washington Post:
Giuliani Still Working at Firm He Promised to Leave — Ten months into his presidential bid, Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work part time at the security consulting firm he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his pursuit of the Republican nomination.
Janny Scott / New York Times:
Memories of Obama in New York Differ — Barack Obama does not say much about his years in New York City. The time he spent as an undergraduate at Columbia College and then working in Manhattan in the early 1980s surfaces only fleetingly in his memoir. In the book, he casts himself …