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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
GOP Primary Story Stars a Democratic Antagonist — They mock her proposals, utter her name with a sneer and win standing ovations by ridiculing her ideas as un-American, even socialistic. She has become the one thing the Republican candidates for president can agree on. — Hillary Clinton.
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Quinnipiac University News and Events:
November 14, 2007 - Giuliani Catches Clinton In Ohio, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Strickland On Ticket Won't Help Dems — Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton remain virtually deadlocked with 44 percent for the Democrat and 43 percent for the Republican in the Ohio presidential race.
CBS News:
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 …
The Hill:
Senate Dem leaders float plan for forced filibuster — Senate Democrats might force Republicans to wage a filibuster if the GOP wants to block the latest Iraq withdrawal bill, aides and senators said Tuesday. — That could set the stage for a dramatic end-of-the-year partisan showdown …
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Says Guards Killed 14 Iraqis Without Cause — Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Clinton pours cash into S.C. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has more than tripled her campaign spending in South Carolina, taking aggressive action in a state political experts call a "must-win" for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) because of its high percentage of black voters.
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Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar — In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy. But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003 …
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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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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Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:
Spitzer's Christmas Tax Surprise — Aims To Collect Levies on Sales Over Internet — New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com will find an 8.375% surprise at the virtual cash register, courtesy of Governor Spitzer, who is moving aggressively to collect Internet sales taxes that have gone widely unenforced.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Should Hillary Pretend to Be a Flight Attendant? — In 2005, a year after Ellie Grossman, a doctor, met Ray Fisman, a professor, on a blind date, she was talking to her grandmother about her guy. — "Never let a man think you're smarter," her grandmother advised. "Men don't like that."
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
VOTER ID....The State of Indiana has the most stringent voter ID laws in the country. Democrats are always griping about this, and have even gone so far as to challenge Indiana's law in the Supreme Court. But this is just silly. In this day and age everyone has a photo ID anyway, so what's the problem?
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Dissension hits Romney campaign — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has television ads and mailings on standby to attack Rudy Giuliani but so far has not used them because of an internal dispute about the risks of a backlash in going negative on the Republican front-runner …
Peter Berkowitz / Opinion Journal:
The Insanity of Bush Hatred — Our politics suffer when passions overcome reason and vitriol becomes virtue. — Hating the president is almost as old as the republic itself. The people, or various factions among them, have indulged in Clinton hatred, Reagan hatred, Nixon hatred …
New York Times:
President of Columbia Is Criticized — Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, was confronted yesterday by discontented professors who gathered more than 100 faculty signatures for a document criticizing his leadership. — Their "statement of concern," read to him at a faculty meeting …
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Kathleen Willey Interview — Yesterday, I did a phone interview with Kathleen Willey, who has a new book out: Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton. — What follows is a transcript of our conversation, edited slightly for readability's sake.
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