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4:35 AM ET, December 15, 2007

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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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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 …
Ross Douthat:
Bring Me The Head of Mitt Romney!
Discussion: The Corner and Eunomia
Rich Lowry / The Corner:   Friday Afternoon Speculative Horserace Thoughts
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Diageo/The Hotline Survey: Huck On Top in Iowa, HRC/BHO Tied
Discussion: MyDD and Open Left
Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
On the Republican Itinerary  —  A few months back I put together …
Associated Press:   How the 2008 candidates chill out
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Rudy on the Road to Toast City
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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Quote of the day  —  "American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out.  The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.  My administration will recognize that the United States' main fight today does …
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner
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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 …
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and The Trail
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
Huckabee Faces Old Queries in New Spotlight  —  When Mike Huckabee became lieutenant governor of Arkansas in 1993, he complained of being burdened by college tuition bills for his son, the expenses of two residences — one in Texarkana and the other in Little Rock — and the cost of commuting between the two.
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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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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Dodd To Hillary And Obama: Will You Make Good On Your Promise …
Discussion: Scholars and Rogues, CNN and Corrente
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Peking Duck
KNTV-TV:
Schwarzenegger Will 'Declare Fiscal Emergency' In Weeks  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he will declare a "fiscal emergency" in January to give him and the Legislature more power to deal with the state's growing deficit.  —  Schwarzenegger made the announcement Friday after meeting …
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Campaigns Woo 3 Iowans for Paper's Endorsement  —  DES MOINES — The other day, as his sport utility vehicle idled outside, former President Bill Clinton held forth on a sofa in the publisher's suite at The Des Moines Register, explaining why he believed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton should win the newspaper's coveted endorsement.
Discussion: Riehl World View
 
 
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