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1:50 PM ET, November 15, 2007

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Ari Melber / The Nation:
NEW CLINTON QUESTIONS?...  As Hillary Clinton aims to regain momentum in tonight's presidential debate, new videos have surfaced on YouTube with young voters asking her questions that are similar to the fake question posed by a Grinnell college student last week.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Widely Disappointed With Democrats in Congress  —  Majority more displeased than content with handling of seven issues  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Amidst a swirl of public dissatisfaction about the Iraq war, the economy, government corruption, and with President Bush more generally …
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Tapscott's Copy Desk:
Gallup documents public disgust with Congress; Big Government faces paralysis by promise  —  Gallup's latest survey turns up extensive evidence of deep public disgust with the performance of the Democratic majority in Congress.  On six major issues, Gallup found solid majorities either disappointed …
Discussion: Daily Pundit and VodkaPundit
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:   Gallup Poll: Congressional Democrats Get Failing Grades
Agence France Presse:
Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes  —  A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.  —  The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Icebergs Ahead For the Democrats  —  As the Democratic presidential race finally gets down to brass tacks, two issues are becoming paramount.  But only one of them is clearly on the table.  —  That is the issue of illegal immigration.  A very smart Democrat, a veteran of the Clinton administration …
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:   David Broder Again Writes About Clinton Marriage — Less Than A Week …
The Atlantic Online:
"The American People"  —  David Broder is a prominent newspaper columnist.
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Iraqis Wasting An Opportunity, U.S. Officers Say  —  With Attacks Ebbing, Government Is Urged to Reach Out to Opponents  —  CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq — Senior military commanders here now portray the intransigence of Iraq's Shiite-dominated government as the key threat facing the U.S. effort in Iraq …
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Washington Post:
Strategic Drift  —  With apparent disregard for the opinion …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Mitt Romney: Perfect tough guy for right-wing war cheerleaders  —  A New York Times profile this morning details what Mitt Romney was doing during the Vietnam War.  Although the article reflects quite poorly on his character, it demonstrates why his candidacy is resonating among our country's right-wing war-cheerleading faction.
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:   Romney, Searching and Earnest, Set His Path in '60s
Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
New Attorney General opposes changes to wiretap law  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — In his second day on the job, Attorney General Michael Mukasey leaped into the political fray, telling a key Democratic senator he opposes his electronic surveillance plan and would recommend the president veto it if it is passed.
Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
DEMOCRATIC DEBATE: POLITICAL LIMELIGHT  —  It's fight night in Las Vegas.  —  The jabs will fly.  The contenders will duck and weave.  They hope they land their punches and don't leave with too many bruises.  —  The action begins at 5 p.m., when the Democratic presidential candidates gather …
Michael Paulson / Boston Globe:
O'Malley draws line with Democrats  —  Backing abortion rights candidates 'borders on scandal'  —  BALTIMORE - Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, saying the Democratic Party has been persistently hostile to opponents of abortion rights, asserted yesterday that the support of many Catholics …
Ellen / News Hounds:
DailyKos Smeared Again On Hannity & Colmes  —  Apparently, there's only so much balance the FOX News conservatives can take and it's not very much.  Just a few days after Sean Hannity's WABC radio program director tried to have a DailyKos blogger arrested when he attempted to ask Sean Hannity …
Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
Is a Unified Field Theory of Hillary Hatred Possible?  —  Ross Baker gives a quote to the NYT about Hillary that shows why political scientists make bad political strategists: … That's a devastating accusation all right—but it's devastating to the candidate who makes it.
Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
Rep. Dennis Hastert to announce resignation Thursday  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is expected to announce Thursday on the House floor that he is retiring from Congress, a senior aide to the congressman told CNN Wednesday.  —  The aide said that Hastert …
Washington Post:
Mr. Chavez's Coup  —  TENS OF thousands of Venezuelan students marched to the Supreme Court in Caracas last week to protest the new "socialist" constitutional reform that President Hugo Chavez is preparing to impose on the country.  On their return, students from the Central University …
Patrick Poole / Front Page Magazine:
A Grim Milestone Ignored  —  The establishment media is seemingly obsessed with "grim milestones" in the War on Terror, as the Associated Press reminds us this past weekend.  But in the next week those same establishment media outlets will probably stand mute when yet another "grim milestone" …
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
1968: The Long Goodbye  —  Can America rise above the divisions of the 1960s?  Not yet.  —  It's too bad Barack Obama wasn't able to meet Abbie Hoffman.  I don't know if Hillary Clinton ever met Hoffman, who died in 1989, but like any young person up and running in America in the late 1960s, she knows him well.
 
 
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