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11:25 PM ET, December 19, 2007

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John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Loses Lead In Republican Race  —  Ex-Mayor Is Tied With Romney In National Poll of Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani has lost his national lead in the Republican presidential race, creating the party's most competitive nomination fight in decades just two weeks before voting starts.
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Washington Post:
Poll: Iowa's GOP Race is Battle Between Huckabee, Romney  —  The race for Iowa's Republican caucuses has narrowed to a two-person battle between former governors Mike Huckabee (Ark.) and Mitt Romney (Mass.), with Huckabee now perched atop the field, propelled by a big jump in support among religious women.
IMAO.US:
The Official IMAO Republican Primary Endorsement  —  IMAO has long been a revered conservative institution, and we thought it would be neglectfully of us not to weigh in on who the Republicans should nominate for president.  Surveys show that most Republicans are not certain of their current choice …
CBS News:
Poll: Huckabee Leads, Dems Tied In S.C.
Discussion: The Palmetto Scoop
Deacon / Power Line:
MORE MUSH FROM THE HUCK  —  This was Mike Huckabee's comment …
Discussion: The Corner
Tom Tancredo / You Decide 08!:
TOM TANCREDO TO DROP OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE  —  Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo plans to drop out of the race during an announcement Thursday afternoon in Des Moines, Iowa, GOP sources close to the campaign have told FOX News.  —  Tancredo, who has aggressively pushed …
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George Merritt / Associated Press:
Tancredo to abandon presidential bid  —  DENVER - Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo, whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence, plans to announce he is abandoning his long-shot bid for the presidency, a person close to Tancredo said Wednesday.
Paul Krugman:
Interesting Obama history  —  I've been alerted to an interesting Boston Globe article about Barack Obama's role, when he was in the Illinois legislature, in the attempt to get the state committed to universal health care.  It turns out that the story very much prefigures the debates we're having right now.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
C.I.A. to Cooperate With House on Tapes  —  WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has agreed to make documents related to the destruction of interrogation videotapes available to the House Intelligence Committee and to allow the agency's top lawyer, John A. Rizzo, to testify about the matter …
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
National Enquirer:
UPDATE: NATIONAL ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!  —  Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught up in a love child scandal, a blockbuster ENQUIRER investigation has discovered.  —  The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that Rielle Hunter, a woman linked to Edwards …
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Reid's Relationship With Bush Enters Deep Freeze  —  WASHINGTON — Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has called President Bush a loser and a liar and has referred to him derisively as King George.  Mr. Reid has also apologized — but only, he likes to point out, for the “loser” line.
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Does Harry Reid Need a Psychiatrist?
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Tucker Attacks John Edwards For Remembering Homeless Vets In Holiday Ad  —  On Wednesday's Tucker, the hopefully soon to be unemployed host gets riled up because Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, had the nerve to mention homeless veterans and those less fortunate in his holiday ad.
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
“Mitt Romney...Helped Save My Daughter”  —  At first blush, this seems like a genuinely great campaign ad — the story of how Mitt Romney basically closed down his business, Bain Capital, in 1996 when the daughter of one of his partners went missing in New York City and Romney sent dozens …
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Huckabee Iowa Manager: ‘War on Terror a Theological War’  —  Mike Huckabee might want to “revise and extend” the remarks of his Iowa campaign manager.  Appearing on this evening's Tucker on MSNBC, Bob Vander Plaats stated that “we're fighting a radical religion in Islam” and that “the war on terror is a theological war.”
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Torture Tapes are the Watergate of Our Times  —  As I write these words on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 19, high- and low-level officials of the Bush administration involved in torture, and the destruction of the torture tapes, are consulting their criminal lawyers as The New York Times reports …
 
 
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The Corner:
Curious Huck  —  Mike Huckabee is now becoming a very divisive figure …
Discussion: Hot Air
Nick Gillespie / Reason Magazine:
Now Playing at Reason.tv: Christopher Hitchens Says Bah, Humbug to Christmas
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Did Huckabee Have Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Discussion: TalkLeft
Democracy Now:
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE: Yemeni Man Imprisoned at CIA “Black Sites” …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Ron Paul: Sure, I'll take money from Nazis
Joe Bel Bruno / Associated Press:
Morgan Stanley Posts Loss on Writedown
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Tom Firey / Cato-at-liberty:
A Moment of Idiocy, of Real Idiocy
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Brian Young / Roadblock Republicans:
And Who Says the Republicans Never Accomplish Anything?
Discussion: Senate 2008 Guru
David Stout / New York Times:
Congress Votes to Spare Millions From Alternative Tax
Discussion: On Deadline
Bryan / Hot Air:
Video: Hillary's unintentionally revealing Christmas ad
Digby / Hullabaloo:
It's A Wonderful Life
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Goldy / HorsesAss.Org:
10 percent of toys test unsafe for lead
Discussion: Group News Blog and Open Left
Der Rocketführer / Sadly, No!:
And Now, Your Daily Liberal Fascism Moment of Zen [Updated x2]
Discussion: Crooked Timber and I Am TRex
Michelle Malkin:
Incandescent stupidity: Washington outlaws 100-watt lightbulbs
Anne Thompson / Campaign for America's Future:
RECORD-BREAKING: SENATE CONSERVATIVES