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Poll: Top Democrats Deadlocked In Iowa — Huckabee Catching Up To Romney Among Hawkeye State Republicans — (CBS) Democrats and Republicans are both headed toward heated showdowns in Iowa, where, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, Hillary Clinton holds a statistically insignificant lead …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Polls Find Voters Weighing Issues vs. Electability
Polls Find Voters Weighing Issues vs. Electability
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Cameron's Corner
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Full Video: McCain Says Supporter's "Bitch" Query About Hillary Is "An Excellent Question" — Below we noted that a local Fox affiliate had reported on a John McCain event in South Carolina where he'd stood by while one of his supporters called Hillary a "bitch."
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Report: McCain Stands By As His Supporter Calls Hillary A "Bitch" — We've just obtained some video of a Fox local affiliate reporting on a McCain campaign appearance in South Carolina. In it, one of McCain's supporters emphatically calls Hillary Clinton, McCain's fellow United States Senator, a "bitch."
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Ex-Publisher's Suit Plays a Giuliani-Kerik Angle — Judith Regan, the former book publisher, says in a lawsuit filed today protesting her dismissal by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate, that a senior executive there encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair …
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CBS News:
Ex-FBI Agent Accused Of Security Breach — Woman Pleads Guilty To Charges Involving Improper Access Of Information — (CBS) A 37-year-old woman who previously worked as an FBI agent and a CIA analyst, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving improper access of information, CBS News has learned.
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FreedomWorks.org:
Why I Think Hillary Will Win — The former House Majority Leader looks at the issues debate in the presidential campaign. — If the 2008 presidential election were held today, Hillary Rodham Clinton would win. — Hillary's minor stumbles in last week's debate notwithstanding …
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Peterhamby / CNN Political Ticker:
Edwards will be first Democrat on TV in South Carolina
Edwards will be first Democrat on TV in South Carolina
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The Swamp
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Spitzer Dropping His License Plan — Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy. — The governor, who is to announce the move formally on Wednesday …
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Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
NY governor said to abandon license plan — WASHINGTON - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to abandon a plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, officials familiar with the decision told The Associated Press Tuesday night. — The governor is due to meet Wednesday morning …
Kos / Daily Kos:
Newsweek — Remember that big announcement I promised earlier? Well, it's now official. … Yeah, there's a lot of heads exploding in wingnutlandia today over this bit of news. But Newsweek is "balancing" me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Say It Enough Times It Must Be True — First the Clinton campaign whines that the other candidates were picking on the girl. Then, standing up to Russert is like standing up to Hitler. Then Bill Clinton compared Russert to the Swift Boat Vets. Now the Clinton campaign is warning Wolf Blizter that he better not "pull a Russert."
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Ezra Klein:
His Ideas Are Good, But I Want More Bullet Points — So we're back to arguing about John Edwards' plan to strip members of Congress of their health care if they don't pass comprehensive reform. I'm always astonished at how bizarrely literally pundits act when they approach this idea.
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The Politico, MyDD, Crooks and Liars, The Newshoggers, Political Machine, The New Republic and The Atlantic Online
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Scott Horton / Harper's:
Is the Roll-Out Sputtering? — Tracking the roll-out for the Iran war through the last week, we have seen some high profile developments. We learned that the pressure is on military intelligence officers and other key nodes of the intelligence community to come up with evidence …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Iowa Waitress Speaks Out: I Didn't Get Tip From Clinton, Media Has Misplaced Priorities — For the past week, Anita Esterday's life has been turned upside down. A single mother of two, she found herself in the middle of a media circus when it was reported that Sen. Hillary Clinton's …
Amanda / Think Progress:
Majority believe Bush has committed impeachable offenses. — A new American Research Group poll finds that 55 percent of voters believe President Bush has "abused his powers" in a manner that rises "to the level of impeachable offenses under the Constitution," yet just 34 percent believe he should actually be impeached.
Michelle Malkin:
The war on Thanksgiving — The annual war on Thanksgiving begins. Via Orbusmax, the Seattle schools are using the holiday to indulge in oppression studies 101: … Look, I'm all for truthful, historically accurate lessons about Thanksgiving. But the "diversity"-peddlers agenda is not about historical accuracy.
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Liberal Values, Woman Honor Thyself, The Reaction, Feministe, Stop The ACLU and Six Meat Buffet