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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Hillary Campaign Acknowledges That County Chair Backing Hillary Passed Along Obama Muslim Smear Email — A day after the Hillary campaign hit the Obama camp for bullying voters in nasty phone calls, the Hillary crew has just acknowledged that an Iowa county chair volunteering …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton staffer received anti-Obama e-mail — Blog: Copy of Obama-Muslim smear e-mail apparently sent by Clinton volunteer.
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Christopher Hayes / The Nation:
CLINTON CAMPAIGN COUNTY CHAIR PUSHING OBAMA SMEAR...
CLINTON CAMPAIGN COUNTY CHAIR PUSHING OBAMA SMEAR...
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Oskar Garcia / Associated Press:
Man opens fire at Omaha mall, killing 8 — OMAHA, Neb. - A man opened fire with a rifle at a busy department store Wednesday, killing eight people before taking his own life, in an attack that made holiday shoppers run screaming through a mall and barricade themselves in dressing rooms.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
MORE NIE STUFF....In the Washington Post today, David Ignatius passes along what his sources are telling him about how the new Iran NIE was put together: … Ignatius also notes that the new attitude toward analysis the produced the NIE was largely the work of Deputy Director of National Intelligence Thomas Fingar.
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Democracy Project:
The Inside Story Of The SwiftBoaters Finally Told — This is the most important book you'll buy this year: To Set The Record Straight, How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry, by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler, with Forward by John O'Neill.
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Bookworm Room
Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release — Little Rock, Ark — As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
A RARE MOMENT OF CANDOR — Dan Bartlett, on the White House's use of right wing blogs:
The Politico:
Cheney: Iraq to be self-governing by 2009 — Vice President Cheney today predicted Iraq will be a self-governing democracy by the time he leaves office, calling the current U.S. surge strategy "a remarkable success story" that will be studied for years to come.
Rich Lowry / The Corner:
Revenge of the Evangelicals — Remember how evangelicals had "matured"? Remember how the war on terror had replaced social issues? It shouldn't be hard, since all those things were being said a couple of weeks ago (heck, still being said maybe even a few days ago).
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Zogby:
Zogby Latest:Zogby Latest: Iowa: Dead Heats; New Hampshire: Clinton suffers shrinkage; Romney recovers strong lead after autumnal fade; The Angry Electorate: Four of five Democrats and two-thirds of Republicans say they are angry at the U.S. political system — Utica, New York …
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Holman W. Jenkins Jr / Opinion Journal:
The Science of Gore's Nobel — What if everyone believes in global warmism only because everyone believes in global warmism? — The Nobel Committee might as well have called it Al Gore's Inner Peace Prize, given the way it seems designed to help him disown his lifelong ambition …
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The System Is Working — Maybe this isn't acknowledged enough, but it seems to me that the Founders would for the first time be pleased with how the United States has been adjusting policy and personnel in wartime this past year. I think when historians look back, they will note a few things.
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Washington Post:
Poll: Clinton Has Single-Digit Lead Over Obama in N.H. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton holds only a single-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, a state her campaign has viewed as a potential firewall should she stumble in the Iowa caucuses, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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CNN Political Ticker:
Oprah rally moved to football stadium — COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) - Relax, University of South Carolina football fans. Your season may be over, but Williams-Brice Stadium won't be empty for long. — Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign announced Wednesday afternoon …
Will Hinton / Good Will Hinton:
Libertarian Enemy Number One: Ron Paul — As the 2008 Presidential campaign unfolds, various storylines are appearing. The supposed inevitability of Hillary, the evolution of Obama, and the musical chairs of the Republican candidates. None of them however are as intriguing to me as the story of Ron Paul.
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Begging the Question on Intelligence — While I haven't figured out what I think of the whole NIE brouhaha, I did find this passage in the Washington Post story troubling: … Huh? How does a specific finding prove that the "reforms" worked? "We found that Bush is wrong, so the system worked" …