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6:40 AM ET, December 20, 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.
CBS News:
Poll: Huckabee Leads, Dems Tied In S.C.
Discussion: The Palmetto Scoop
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.
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
“Slim” chance Tancredo will remain in presidential race
Discussion: Democratic Strategist and TalkLeft
Jimmie / The Sundries Shack:
The Politico Story on Thompson is Wrong (Update: Not Just Wrong.  Really, Really Wrong)  —  From Dan Riehl we have this story about an allegedly less-than-stellar campaign stop for Fred Thompson.  I say “allegedly” because there's at least one large portion of the story that did not happen as written.
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John Bentley / CBS News:   Thompson Narrowly Avoids Breaking “Silly Hats” Rule
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.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:   Edwards Camp To Press: Wake Up, We're Running A National Campaign
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Congress Averts Higher Tax Bill for Middle Class  —  WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday gave final approval to a plan that will spare millions of middle-class taxpayers higher taxes in the coming months.  The White House welcomed the development and said President Bush would sign the bill.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Congress Votes to Spare Millions From Alternative Tax
Discussion: On Deadline
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA Chief Denies Calif. Limit on Auto Emissions  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson yesterday denied California's petition to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, overruling the unanimous recommendation of the agency's legal and technical staffs.
Discussion: Gristmill
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New York Times:
E.P.A. Says 17 States Can't Set Emission Rules for Cars
Discussion: Gristmill and Economist's View
The Corner:
Curious Huck  —  Mike Huckabee is now becoming a very divisive figure in the Republican party.  It's not his faith or his Merry Christmas commercial that many conservatives question (I certainly don't), but it's his record as governor and his stated positions on the war, foreign policy generally, taxes, spending, and illegal aliens.
Discussion: Hot Air
Tom Firey / Cato-at-liberty:
A Moment of Idiocy, of Real Idiocy  —  The above title is the correct assessment of the new energy bill that President Bush just signed into law, less than 24 hrs after the House approved it by a 314-100 margin.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking just prior to yesterday's vote …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Did Huckabee Have Gastric Bypass Surgery?  —  Zogby says that we're in the middle of a Huckaboom — they find that Mike Huckabee is within 1 point of Giuliani in the national polls.  Whether the Zogby poll is an outlier or not, Huckabee's surge over the past two months has been remarkable …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Gay Patriot:
Sondra K-Grande Conservative Blogress Diva 2008  —  When we launched the Grande Conservative Blogress Diva contest this year, we expected to have a number of blogresses nominated and seconded as we did.  So, we assumed a run-off would be necessary.  —  What we did not anticipate was the number of glitches in this year's competition.
Discussion: Tammy Bruce
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Official: Justice Dept. slowed probe into phone jamming  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department delayed prosecuting a key Republican official for jamming the phones of New Hampshire Democrats until after the 2004 election, protecting top GOP officials from the scandal until the voting was over.
Bryan / Hot Air:
Video: Hillary's unintentionally revealing Christmas ad  —  My jaw dropped when I watched this one the first time.  Hillary's Christmas ad says nothing at all about Christmas.  The gifts make the connection, of course, but check out what the gifts are: universal health care, bring the troops home, etc.
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.”
 
 
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New York Times:
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CBS News:
Candidates Offer Views On Infidelity
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Page
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Fire Breaks Out on White House Grounds
Discussion: The Hill and TPMmuckraker
CNN:
Dems frustrated as House OKs $70 billion for wars
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Truthdig
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Joe Bel Bruno / Associated Press:
Morgan Stanley Posts Loss on Writedown
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Pakistan Daily Times:
VIEW: Truth and denial —Farrukh Saleem
Discussion: The Corner
CNN:
Giuliani opens door to talks with Iran
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Krugman Dogged By Rumor That His Son Works For Hillary
Leonard Doyle / The Independent:
Slave labour that shames America
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press:
Meta clashes with Canada's CRTC over the Online News Act by declining to publicly release information about its measures to block news content on its platforms

 
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