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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Clinton Gets an Instant Chance to Wield a New Weapon — It used to be that when a campaign had an argument with a news report, it put out a mass e-mail message disputing the offending item. That was a huge technological leap from the fax machine. — Now even e-mail may be growing quaint.
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The Atlantic Online:
Two New Hampshire Polls Will Show Shrinking Clinton Lead — Two new reputable polls of New Hampshire Democratic Primary voters will show statistically significant drops in support for frontrtunner Hillary Clinton, Democrats who have seen those polls said today.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Waitress tells campaign reporters: 'You people are really nuts' — It's hard to say for sure when the "silly season" started in the media's coverage of the presidential campaign. If there was a "serious season," it was exceedingly short. I'm afraid I missed it. — But yesterday was unusually inane.
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Things Are Tough All Over — But Mrs. Clinton is no Iron Lady. — The story as I was told it is that in the early years of her prime ministership, Margaret Thatcher held a meeting with her aides and staff, all of whom were dominated by her, even awed. When it was over she invited …
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Rove Decries 'Nutty' 'Vitriolic' Bloggers Who Spew 'Bad Words' — Yesterday, ThinkProgress attended a Yahoo-sponsored Citizen 2.0 event in Washington, DC, at which Karl Rove discussed the intersection of politics and the Internet. Rove lamented the loss of civility in politics on the web …
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Jon Ward / Washington Times:Karl Rove's advice for fuming bloggers
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What happened to the Senate's "60-vote requirement"? — Every time Congressional Democrats failed this year to stop the Bush administration (i.e., every time they "tried"), the excuse they gave was that they "need 60 votes in the Senate" in order to get anything done.
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Reid Allowed Vote On Mukasey In Exchange For Military Funding Bill — Here's some more on what exactly happened in the negotiations that led up to the rushed confirmation of Michael Mukasey yesterday. — According to sources inside and outside the Democratic leadership …
The Atlantic Online:
Lieberman's Latest — Courtesy of Sam Boyd, I see the Financial Times reporting on Joe Lieberman's views. Apparently, the Wise One "argued that George W. Bush and the Republican presidential candidates remained truer than the Democratic party to its tradition of a 'moral, internationalist …
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The Prowler / American Spectator:
Huckabee's Salvation — Dr. James Dobson, who has largely been made irrelevant to the 2008 Republican presidential race, has apparently found his man, and according to an adviser, is ready to change the landscape of the Republican nomination race. — "He is the leader of the evangelical …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Giuliani camp swings back after Kerik jabs — None of Rudy's GOP rivals wanted to dive headlong into the Kerik affair, but then a reporter went and asked McCain about it. And, McCain being McCain, he spoke out … Tom Ridge, the first DHS Secretary, was traveling with McCain and offered …
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Noam Scheiber / The Stump:
Is Romney Running Away With It? — For all the attention Rudy Giuliani got with that Pat Robertson endorsement earlier this week, the numbers increasingly suggest Romney is going to be the GOP nominee. According to Pollster.com, Romney's up 14 points in Iowa (28.6 to Huckabee's 14.8 …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Edwards: I'm closer to Obama than Clinton — Edwards seems to be saving his artillery for Hillary, and sought in Des Moines today to minimize the distance between himself and Obama. — "The differences between Sen. Clinton and myself are much more dramatic than the differences between …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Is it now official? — Can we just go ahead and crown Mike Huckabee the John McCain of this cycle? — I refer, of course, to the gushing media coverage that the folksy (and it's always "folksy") former Arkansas governor is receiving. — Today it was Michael Gerson's turn.
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Drew Cline:
Biden: Democrats have lost faith in the American people — Sen. Joe Biden said in an interview at the New Hampshire Union Leader this afternoon that too many Democrats, including the frontrunners for the presidential nomination, do not have faith in the American people.
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The Corner:
Joe for VP — Bill Kristol has a typically provocative and noteworthy editorial now posted on the website of The Weekly Standard. Bill points out that the MSM chose to ignore one of the most significant Senate speeches I can recall: Senator Joe Lieberman's critique of the Democratic party's …
David Brooks / New York Times:
History and Calumny — Today, I'm going to write about a slur. It's a distortion that's been around for a while, but has spread like a weed over the past few months. It was concocted for partisan reasons: to flatter the prejudices of one side, to demonize the other and to simplify …
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