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3:40 PM ET, December 12, 2007

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Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
CNN N.H. Poll: Obama, Clinton tied; Romney remains strong  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama has chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire, and the two Democratic presidential hopefuls are now locked in a statistical tie less than one month before the first-in-the-nation primary, a CNN/WMUR Poll released Wednesday shows.
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NY Daily News:
Bill Clinton to aid Hillary's campaign  —  WASHINGTON - Bubba to the rescue!  —  Alarmed by his wife's slide in the polls and disarray within her backbiting campaign, a beside-himself Bill Clinton has leaped atop the barricades and is furiously plotting a cure - or coup.
The Washington Post / The Trail:
Clinton N.H. Official Warns Obama Will Be Attacked on Drug Use  —  Bill Shaheen, Clinton's New Hampshire co-chair.  (AP).  —  DOVER, N.H. — Billy Shaheen, the co-chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign in New Hampshire, raised the issue of Sen. Barack Obama's past admissions of drug use …
Marc Ambinder:
Clinton Will Close On Electability, Readies Contrast Ads Obama  —  Inexperience and Unelectability it is.  —  The Clinton campaign has settled on its final argument against Barack Obama, and is using two new national polls to kick start an aggressive campaign in the national media designed …
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Oprah Says Vote for Obama Isn't Vote Against Clinton
Discussion: Say Anything
Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
What Does Hillary Mean By "Experience"?
Zev Chafets / New York Times:
The Huckabee Factor  —  Mike Huckabee walked into the lobby of the Des Moines Marriott at 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 3, deposited an armful of dirty laundry at the desk and checked to make sure he was being credited with Marriott Rewards points toward his next stay.  Then, accompanied by his wife …
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Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
His Views on Mormons are the least of it.  —  Thanks to a really well written, genuinely insightful profile in, of all places, the usually leaden New York Times Magazine, by writer Ze've Chafetz, we have all absorbed the fact that Mike Huckabee, graduate of Ouachitha Baptist University in Arkadelphia …
Discussion: Ross Douthat and The New Republic
Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
Huckabee Questions Mormons' Belief  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"  —  The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine …
Linda Caillouet / Arkansas Online:
Huckabee: U.S. gave up on religion
Discussion: Think Progress
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
ENTER ALAN KEYES  —  From NBC's Mark Murray  —  JOHNSTON, IA — There is one additional Republican presidential candidate who will be on the stage here at the GOP Des Moines Register/Iowa Public Television debate this afternoon: Alan Keyes.  —  This will be the first major debate …
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Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Kucinich booted from Iowa debate  —  Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) is being excluded from this week's Iowa presidential debate because he has not rented office space in the Hawkeye State, his campaign said Wednesday.  —  The Des Moines Register informed the campaign that Kucinich is not invited …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Debate Preview: All Eyes on Huck
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Dave / First State Politics:
Romney, Huckabee On DE Ballot; Thompson Misses Mark
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and race42008.com
Amanda / Think Progress:
Sen. Kit Bond: Waterboarding Is Like 'Swimming'  —  Yesterday on PBS's Newshour, host Gwen Ifill asked Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) whether waterboarding constitutes torture.  Bond replied that the technique is actually more like "swimming": … Watch it:  —  Conservatives have repeatedly tried …
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:   BOND MUST BE A REALLY BAD SWIMMER
The Politico:
Boehner admits GOP money situation 'sucks'  —  One of the best things that can be said of Rep. John A. Boehner's leadership is that the head of House Republicans is no Newt Gingrich, no Tom DeLay.  —  The Ohio lawmaker has an affable, understated style and runs a team that has the long knives …
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Blue Texan / Firedoglake:   For John Boehner, It "Sucks" To Be A Republican
New York Post:
JEWS' SUBWAY HERO A MUSLIM  —  SAVES 'HANUKKAH' RIDERS FROM THUGS  —  A Brooklyn man whose "Happy Hanukkah" greeting landed him in the hospital said he was saved from a gang of Jew-bashing goons aboard a packed Q train by a total stranger - a modest Muslim from Bangladesh.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Dream Is Dead  —  The man crowned by Tommy Franks as "the dumbest [expletive] guy on the planet" just made the dumbest [expletive] speech on the planet.  —  Doug Feith, the former Rummy gofer who drove the neocon plan to get us into Iraq, and then dawdled without a plan as Iraq crashed into chaos …
Matt / Think Progress:
Guantanamo Legal Adviser Refuses To Say Iranians Waterboarding Americans Would Be Torture  —  During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "The Legal Rights of Guantanamo Detainees" this morning, Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay …
ABCNEWS:
Bush: 'I Doubt I'd Be Standing Here If I Hadn't Quit Drinking Whiskey'  —  President Bush Opens Up About Past Alcohol Addiction During Exclusive Interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Bush spoke more candidly than ever before about his past alcohol addiction.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Pelosi backs down in spending battle  —  In the face of stiff opposition from powerful fellow Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has abandoned a proposal she supported less than 24 hours ago to eliminate lawmakers' earmarks from the omnibus spending package.
 
 
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Associated Press:
U.S.: Fort Dix Attack Plot Suspects Promoting Terror in Jail
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Dennis Ross / The New Republic:
The Can't-Win Kids  —  The dunderheaded public roll-out of the NIE.
Discussion: The Corner and Booman Tribune
Agence France Presse:
Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab, her friends say
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Rick Perry's Freudian Slip Shows
Dan / Riehl World View:
Great, Now For Planted Outraged Readers
Toledo Blade:
Latta coasts to victory for 5th District seat by capturing all counties
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Warren Buffett , Taxes and the Presidency
Matthew Yglesias:
The Immigration Obsession  —  Kevin Drum quotes the LA Times' analysis …
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Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

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