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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 — Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire — the states that begin the presidential nominating battle — say Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards are more likely than Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to say what they believe …
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Randyj / The Page:
CBS-NYT Iowa, New Hampshire Polls
CBS-NYT Iowa, New Hampshire Polls
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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 …
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Amy Doolittle / FederalTimes.com:
President vetoes bill funding Labor, HHS and Education in '08 — President Bush, as expected, vetoed a $150.7 billion funding bill for the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education departments, but he signed into law a $460.3 billion bill funding the Defense Department.
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Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Reid calls on Bush to withdraw troops
Reid calls on Bush to withdraw troops
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Henry Rearden / Arkansas Journal:
UPDATE: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Huckabee—Whatever Tax You Pass, "You Will Have Nothing But My Profound Thanks" … Jump forward to the present day, Mike Huckabee running for the Republican presidential nomination has signed a no-tax pledge and jumped on the Fair Tax bandwagon.
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 …
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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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.
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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 …
James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
In book, FBI agent says Saddam Hussein cried at last meeting — WASHINGTON - After confessing to slaughtering 180,000 Kurds and plotting to build a doomsday nuke, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was so upset when his FBI interrogator left for home that he cried like a baby.