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Heather Hollingsworth / Associated Press:
Giuliani Admitted to St. Louis Hospital … KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Republican Rudy Giuliani was admitted to a hospital Wednesday night for flu-like symptoms, his campaign said. — The former New York City mayor felt the symptoms while campaining for the Republican presidential nomination in Missouri …
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CNN Political Ticker:
Down to the wire in Iowa: Dems in a dead heat — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses and it — appears to be a dead heat in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination in the Hawkeye State, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Thursday morning.
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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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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Bob Kerrey Apologizes To Obama Over Raising Muslim “Issue” — I didn't mean to do it. — That's the gist of former Nebraska Senator and Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Kerrey's written apology to Democratic Senator Barack Obama for raising the issue of Obama's Muslim background …
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Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:
Kerrey apologizes to Obama for Muslim comments
Kerrey apologizes to Obama for Muslim comments
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Romney fields questions on King — Campaign says claim not literal — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he watched his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, in a 1960s civil rights march in Michigan with Martin Luther King Jr.
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Senior Qaeda Theologian Urges His Followers To End Their Jihad — WASHINGTON — One of Al Qaeda's senior theologians is calling on his followers to end their military jihad and saying the attacks of September 11, 2001, were a “catastrophe for all Muslims." — In a serialized manifesto written …
Portsmouth Herald:
Vote for Obama in Democratic primary Jan. 8 — All elections are unique, but not all of them are historically significant. We believe that the election of 2008 will prove to be one of the most important since Franklin Roosevelt brought this country a New Deal in 1932.
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Tucson Citizen:
Crackdown has illegal immigrants leaving Arizona — NOGALES, Sonora - It's a common scene this time of year: streams of overloaded cars, pickups and vans with U.S. license plates crossing into Mexico for the holidays. — Most are filled with Hispanic families from Arizona and other states …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The Endless Campaign — The Iowa caucuses are 14 days away, with the New Hampshire primary five days later. And what follows from there won't be pretty. The way Americans are selecting our presidential candidates in 2008 is, frankly, a mess. — The first problem is the overall length of the campaign.
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.
Micah Zenko / Washington Post:
A Nuclear Site Is Breached — South African Attack Should Sound Alarms — An underreported attack on a South African nuclear facility last month demonstrates the high risk of theft of nuclear materials by terrorists or criminals. Such a crime could have grave national security implications …
Jeff Bater / Wall Street Journal:
Final Third-Quarter GDP Rises 4.9% As Weak Housing Offset by Spending — WASHINGTON — The government left untouched its estimate for economic growth during last summer, saying the pace was the strongest in four years even though housing fared worse than earlier thought.
Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
To Be or Huckabee — The Republican party's question. — SINCE MIKE HUCKABEE's meteoric rise in the polls, questions regarding his gravitas have dogged the latest Man from Hope. Oh sure, he can toss out witticisms with the best of them and he's as likable a politician as we've seen in decades …
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.
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