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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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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 …
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 …
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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 …
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Last debates could have 'seismic impact' — The Des Moines Register's presidential debates, set for today and Thursday, are the last meetings of the candidates before the leadoff Iowa caucuses and most meaningful of the dozens already held this year, campaign strategists agree.
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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.
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 …
WMUR:
Poll: Clinton Loses Lead, Romney Out In Front — MANCHESTER, N.H. — A new poll shows that while the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president holds a comfortable lead in New Hampshire, the Democratic race has tightened dramatically. — According to the latest WMUR/CNN poll …
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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 …
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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.
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Too Young To Write for Page One? — A JOURNALISM SCHOOL PROFESSOR'S LAME COMPLAINT. — "Since when does the Post assign 27-year-olds to write Page 1 presidential campaign pieces?" Boston University journalism professor Christopher B. Daly snitted yesterday in a blog item titled "The Worst Political Reporting of 2007."
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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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.
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Hugo's Crude Politics — Politics: Joe Kennedy's back, playing Santa Chavez with a new sleigh full of Venezuelan heating oil for "the poor." The tropical dictator's politicized "gift," however, comes with strings. We see Joe dancing on them. — Energy
Alan Greenspan / Opinion Journal:
The Roots of the Mortgage Crisis — Bubbles cannot be safely defused by monetary policy before the speculative fever breaks on its own. — On Aug. 9, 2007, and the days immediately following, financial markets in much of the world seized up. Virtually overnight the seemingly insatiable desire …
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