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USA Today:
Poll: Obama makes gains, is even with Clinton in N.H. — PELHAM, N.H. — Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a dead heat among New Hampshire voters in a statewide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, underscoring the volatility of the race less than three weeks before the nation's first primary.
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USA TODAY / Gallup poll — Results are based on interviews with 477 New Hampshire residents deemed most likely to vote in the Republican primary . The results for Section II are based on interviews with 510 New Hampshire residents deemed most likely to vote in the Democratic primary.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Hasta La Vista — Tom Tancredo is an angry man. — We know this because he has proposed dropping bombs on Mecca. We know this because he sang “Dixie” at a South Carolina gathering full of Confederate flags and white supremacists. And we know this because he wants to expel 12 million people now living in the United States.
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Associated Press:
Huckabee Surges, Giuliani Plummets — By The Associated Press - 13 hours ago — THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans in Michigan. — ___ — THE NUMBERS — REPUBLICANS — Mitt Romney, 21 percent — Mike Huckabee, 19 percent — Rudy Giuliani, 12 percent — John McCain, 10 percent
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Richardson Accuses Clinton of ‘Flip-Flop’ on Iraq Pullout — MUSCATINE, Iowa — I just got a phone call — unprompted — from Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a Democratic candidate for president, blasting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for saying she would withdraw nearly all American troops …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
A Flibbertigibbet, A Will O' The Wisp, A Clown — How do you solve a problem like Bill Clinton? Eugene Robinson wonders whether it wouldn't be easier to keep a wave upon the sand than to try to shoehorn him into a ceremonial post as First Spouse. Bill already acts as though the campaign exists …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
A Problem Like Bill — Hillary Clinton tells audiences …
A Problem Like Bill — Hillary Clinton tells audiences …
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Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Bush boxed in his congressional foes — HALCYON DAY: Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) at the opening of the 110th Congress in January. Over the course of a year, President Bush used his veto and a core of loyal Republicans to substantially limit gains by the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Hardball: Ed Schultz Squares Off Against Mark Green — Air America Radio President Mark Green and progressive talk show host Ed Schultz (whose show appears on some Air America affiliates as well as on their XM Radio channel) went toe to toe on Hillary Clinton's whisper campaign against Barack Obama on Thursday's Hardball.
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Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
Spending Bills Still Stuffed With Earmarks — Democrats Had Vowed To Curtail Pet Projects — Twice in the past two years, Alaska lawmakers lost congressional earmarks to build two “bridges to nowhere” costing hundreds of millions of dollars after Congress was embarrassed by public complaints …
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Little Green Footballs:
Ron Paul's Photo-Op with Stormfront — An LGF reader emailed this photograph, showing Ron Paul at the Values Voters Presidential Debate in Fort Lauderdale on September 17, 2007. Immediately to Paul's left: Don Black, the owner of neo-Nazi hate site Stormfront.
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
An Interview With Fred Thompson's Wife, Jeri Thompson — Yesterday, I got together with Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri Thompson, for a phone interview as she traveled around Iowa. Unfortunately, near the end of the interview, while she was running low on time, she hit a bad cell.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Reid and company target the true enemy: “Dodd and his allies” — (updated below - Update II) — During yesterday's chat with Washington Post Congressional reporter Paul Kane, this extremely revealing exchange occurred, regarding the view of Harry Reid and other anonymous Democrats …
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
American Pastoral — Mike Huckabee preaches to the choir, but not everyone's singing along. — I didn't see the famous floating cross. What I saw when I watched Mike Huckabee's Christmas commercial was a nice man in a sweater sitting next to a brightly lit tree.
Byron York / The Corner:
Why Isn't Anyone Paying Attention to This? — This was not exactly bannered across the front page of the New York Times yesterday. As a matter of fact, I don't think I saw it in my paper at all. But on the Times' website, dated December 20, there is this headline: “Giuliani's Office Shifted Money Around?
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Raf Casert / Associated Press:
Belgium arrests 14 in terrorist plot — BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian police Friday arrested 14 Muslim extremists suspected of planning the jailbreak of an al-Qaida prisoner convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel, officials said. — Extra police were deployed across …
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Luke Harding / Guardian:
Putin ‘has secret $40bn fortune’ — An unprecedented battle is taking place inside the Kremlin in advance of Vladimir Putin's departure from office, the Guardian has learned, with claims that the president presides over a secret multibillion-dollar fortune.