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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.
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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.
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:Reid Chooses Admin-Friendly Measure as Basis for Surveillance Bill
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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 …
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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 …
ABCNEWS:
Did Immigration Ads Spark Link to Terror? — 5th Grader Questions Obama, Making Immigration-Terror Link — When Iowa Democrat Tod Bowman got home Thursday night, he got an earful from his wife about what their fifth-grader had just done. — Earlier that day, their son, Beau Bowman …
David Barboza / New York Times:
In China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters — FUQING, China — Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.
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The Raw Story:
Wyoming's top Democrat: State's voters 'seem to hate' Hillary — SOUTH KOREAN parliament brawls over proposal to impeach prosecutors.
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 …
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 …
Michael D. Huckabee / Foreign Affairs:
America's Priorities in the War on Terror — Summary: The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out. In particular, it should focus …
NPR:
Huckabee Talks Tough on Mortgage Bailout — Listen Now — · Earlier in the year, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was near the back of the pack in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. — Now, he is leading the polls in Iowa and South Carolina — and running second …
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