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12:20 AM ET, December 15, 2007

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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Florida Republican Primary  —  Florida: Huckabee 27% Romney 23% Giuliani 19%  —  Mitt Romney's strategy for winning the Republican nomination was to win the early states and build momentum.  Rudy Giuliani's plan was to accept defeats in the early states and come back strong …
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Ed Tibbetts / Quad City Times:
Obama, Huckabee lead new Iowa poll  —  Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee hold 9-point leads in Iowa with less than three weeks to go before the Jan. 3 caucuses, according to a new poll conducted for the Quad-City Times and other Lee Enterprises newspapers.
Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News:
New polls in the Michigan primary campaign  —  Two new independent polls of Michigan primary voters out today add to the evidence for a surge for Mike Huckabee in Michigan, a decline for Rudy Giuliani and the possibility of a John McCain surge if the GOP contest draws lots of independents and Democrats.
Rich Lowry / The Corner:   Friday Afternoon Speculative Horserace Thoughts
Ross Douthat:
Bring Me The Head of Mitt Romney!
Discussion: The Corner and Eunomia
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Rudy on the Road to Toast City
Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
On the Republican Itinerary  —  A few months back I put together …
Associated Press:   How the 2008 candidates chill out
CNN Political Ticker:
S.C. poll: Huckabee bolts to top of GOP; Obama cuts into Clinton lead
Hotline On Call:
Diageo/The Hotline Survey: Huck On Top in Iowa, HRC/BHO Tied
Discussion: MyDD
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Mukasey Rejects Call for CIA Tape Details  —  Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department's inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, saying that providing such information would make it appear that the department was …
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David Stout / New York Times:
Attorney General Rejects Demand for Information  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has firmly rejected Congressional demands that he provide information about the Justice Department's investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency's destruction of videotapes showing interrogations …
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Justice Dept. Blocks House Inquiry into CIA Torture Tapes  —  Only two days after the House intelligence committee inaugurated its inquiry into the CIA's torture tapes by hosting CIA Director Mike Hayden on Wednesday, the Justice Department instructed key CIA officials not to cooperate.
Redstate:
F-you Country Boy.  Jesus Freaks Need Not Apply.  —  You know the most damnably aggravating thing about this campaign season for me?  I continue to feel compelled to defend Mike Huckabee and I'm still convinced he'd hurt the party were he the nominee.  And as I continue to defend Huckabee …
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Deacon / Power Line:
HE'S NOT A DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY, HE JUST PLAYS ONE ON TV  —  In a post-debate interview with CBN News last month, Mike Huckabee claimed that he is uniquely qualified to lead the war on terror because he has a theology degree.  Huckabee said: … The notion that a theology degree constitutes …
Democrats.senate.gov:
Reid Statement On FISA Bill  —  Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today on the floor of the U.S. Senate regarding the FISA Improvement Act of 2007:  —  "I will shortly move to proceed to S. 2248, the FISA Improvement Act of 2007.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Right and Religion  —  It's amazing to me to watch Rich Lowry and Charles Krauthammer begin to panic at the signs of Christianism taking over the Republican party.  Where, one wonders, have they been for the past decade?  They have long pooh-poohed those of us who have been warning …
Reuters:
Congress ramps up Iraq, Afghanistan spending  —  Defense authorization bill sent to Bush — without timetables  —  WASHINGTON - The Democratic-led Congress authorized more Iraq war spending on Friday, sending President Bush a defense bill requiring no change in strategy after failing again …
Fox News:
Former Reagan Campaign Director Ed Rollins Joins Mike Huckabee  —  Veteran Republican strategist Ed Rollins has been named the new national campaign chairman and senior adviser for Mike Huckabee, lending credibility and experience to his surging presidential campaign.
Discussion: Firedoglake, Salon and Think Progress
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Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Peggy Noonan: Ronald Reagan Wouldn't Make It In Today's Fundie GOP
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Hillary And The Drug Flap: Does Her Campaign Want Issue To Go Away?
Discussion: Spin Cycle, New York Times and The RBC
BBC:
Iraqi oil exceeds pre-war output  —  Iraqi oil production is above the levels seen before the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).  —  The IEA said Iraqi crude production is now running at 2.3 million barrels per day, compared with 1.9 million barrels at the start of this year.
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Huck's gift-givers ended up in state posts  —  Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he appointed to state posts during his decade as governor, a Politico analysis of state public records found.  —  Since setting his sights on the White House, those supporters …
The Raw Story:
Wyoming's top Democrat: State's voters 'seem to hate' Hillary  —  SOUTH KOREAN parliament brawls over proposal to impeach prosecutors.
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Clinton Claims Credit for Bill She Didn't Pass  —  One of the knocks on Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, by her opponents is that she takes credit for things she shouldn't — say, the myriad successes of her husband's administration (and few of its failures).  —  Those inclined to wonder …
Discussion: Marc Ambinder and NewsBusters.org
 
 
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Democratic candidates score big with clergy, religious organizations
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad / Newsweek:
An Arrogant Approach  —  The danger of unilateralism— for the United States and the world
Discussion: Hot Air
Michael D. Huckabee / Foreign Affairs:
America's Priorities in the War on Terror
NPR:
Huckabee Talks Tough on Mortgage Bailout
David Freddoso / The Corner:
Freedom, Faith, and Postwar Europe
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Eric Schmeltzer / The Huffington Post:
The War (on Christmas) Is Over!  —  NEW YORK/O'Reilly News Service …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Weak Field  —  I know some netroots types are frustrated …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Bush Demands Freedom to Torture
Steve Quinn / Associated Press:
Gov. Palin strikes a few poses for fashion magazine
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Gateway Pundit:
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