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10:55 PM ET, December 15, 2007

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Des Moines Register:
The Register's caucus endorsements: McCain, Clinton  —  The Des Moines Register's editorial board has endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Iowa caucuses.  —  The Register, Iowa's statewide newspaper, calls McCain and Clinton the candidates …
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Boston Globe:
Globe endorses McCain, Obama  —  Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have been endorsed by The Boston Globe editorial board ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Jan. 8 in New Hampshire.  —  The board wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat, fulfills America's need for …
Des Moines Register:
Democratic endorsement editorial: Why Clinton  —  THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL BOARD  —  A deep, talented field in the Democratic caucus race offers both good and difficult choices.  —  No fewer than three candidates would, by their very identity, usher the nation to the doorstep of history.
Boston Globe:
For the Democrats: Barack Obama  —  From the endorsement editorial:  —  The most sobering challenges that face this country — terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics — are global.  America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities.
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
Obama fires back at Bill Clinton  —  Democratic contender counter-punches ex-president on experience issue  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama calls on a reporter at his news conference before a rally in Waterloo, Iowa on Saturday.  —  WATERLOO, Iowa - Former president …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and TalkLeft
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Boston Globe endorses Obama, McCain  —  CHARLES CITY, Iowa - Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain have won the endorsements of the Boston Globe, an influential newspaper that circulates widely in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire.  —  The newspaper announced …
Hotline On Call:
DMR Endorsements Imminent?  —  On Call is hearing that the Des Moines Register endorsements could be imminent, possibly tomorrow, and posted online tonight.  —  Buzz is that the odds are with Barack Obama...  The paper's support for John Edwards in 2004 catapulted him to a second place caucus finish.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Showing New Confidence With Iowa Sprint
Discussion: The Swamp and CNN Political Ticker
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama: 'I hardly think that I've been under exposed'
Discussion: New York Times
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
'Trust Huckabee' moves into New Hampshire  —  The third-party group assisting Mike Huckabee has moved beyond Iowa and into New Hampshire.  —  Trust Huckabee — a group that the candidate has publicly denounced — made a similar round of automated calls spreading negative information …
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Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
Huckabee Sees WH 'Bunker Mentality'
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   McCain's Last Stand  —  He still has a chance. Inman, South Carolina
Roy / alicublog:
Quotomatic Selector say: And the middle school kids were giving, and getting, blowjobs all day.  —  YOUR MOMENT OF DR. HELEN.  Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser throws more bait to the poor souls who have despaired of finding love in this cold, cruel, gynocracy.  "Men are being told not to get married …
Discussion: Majikthise and Sadly, No!
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New York Times:
Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry  —  WASHINGTON — For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Huckabee DWI clemency, donations raise questions  —  From NBC's Amna Nawaz, Investigative Producer  —  Questions are being raised about then-Gov. Huckabee's 2004 decision to grant clemency to a repeat Driving While Intoxicated offender in Arkansas named Eugene Fields, despite the objections of a law enforcement official at the time.
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Children?  Not if you love the planet  —  This is the time of year, as Hillary Rodham Clinton once put it, when Christians celebrate "the birth of a homeless child" - or, in Al Gore's words, "a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child."  —  Just for the record, Jesus wasn't "homeless."
John Shiffman / philly.com:
Videotape shows Sharpton cutting a deal  —  With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly.  —  Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win …
Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Obama in the 'Loo responds to Clinton camp  —  During a news conference this morning in Waterloo, Iowa (hence the 'Loo reference in the headline), Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama responded to the recent comments a key Clinton supporter in New Hampshire made about Obama's admitted drug use as a youth.
Marc Ambinder:
Bill Clinton ... Well, He Just Puts Everything On The Table.  Read It.  —  In a hard-changing interview with Charlie Rose tonight, Bill Clinton said Americans who are prepared to choose someone with less experience, are prepared to "roll the dice" about the future of America.  "It's less predictable, isn't it?
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Bill Clinton, on 'Charlie Rose' Show, Suggests Obama Not Ready …
Atrios / Eschaton:
They Hate Huckabee  —  I have to admit I don't really get it.  I mean, I understand why the Villagers are freaked by Huckabee, but I don't understand why all of the idiot conservative bloggers are freaking out too.  They're using the kind of language to describe the religious right that I steer clear of personally.
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Discussion: Doug Ross
Newsweek:
The Road Warrior  —  Even if he loses in Iowa's bigger cities …
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