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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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Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News:
GOP race in Mich. is up for grabs — Poll: Romney and Huckabee are front-runners as Giuliani support dwindles, McCain slips slightly. — Michigan's Republican presidential primary is a wide-open, volatile race, with Rudy Giuliani's support dropping by more than half in the past month, while Mike Huckabee's has doubled.
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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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
McCain Campaign Calls Allegations ‘Gutter Politics’ — Sen. John McCain said today that he has “never done any favors for anybody — lobbyist or special-interest group” as his presidential campaign rushed out a statement denouncing allegations that he did anything to benefit a specific Washington lobbyist as “gutter politics.”
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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.
Leslie Casimir / Houston Chronicle:
Housing changes unravel Katrina victims' lives — Rent subsidy programs migrate to new agencies — On a rainy afternoon two days before Thanksgiving, Dawn Haynes was driving when she spotted the family of five sitting on the steps of Gospel Baptist Church.
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Liberty Street
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Business As Usual On The Border — The reliably thoughtful Andrew Sullivan delivers his perspective on the awful story of a Nordic would-be tourist: … Matt Yglesias joins in: … So, this incident from Cheney's America reads like an Eastern European country in the 70's?
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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.
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 …
Boston Herald:
Choice is clear: McCain's the one — There are times in this nation's history so perilous that they cry out for a steady, experienced leader, a person so trusted that we would put the fate of this country in his hands. — This is one of those times, and Sen. John McCain is that person.
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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Lone Star Times
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The Corner:
To See Or Not To See — There's a bit of controversy brewing today over Mitt Romney — apparently the Boston Phoenix and the Detroit Free Press are reporting that Romney's father George, the former Governor of Michigan never actually marched with Martin Luther King Jr. as had been previously claimed.
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Agence France Presse:
Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US — WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. — “We are no longer citizens …
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Typos and tribulations, On Deadline, Argus Leader, The Newshoggers, QandO and Reason Magazine
DefenseLINK:
Troops Capture ‘Special Groups’ Leader, Release Detainees — Coalition forces captured a suspected “special groups” leader during operations yesterday in the northern Baghdad area, military officials reported. — The targeted individual was the special groups criminal element leader …
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
The Weakest of Denials — At a year-end press conference this morning, President Bush staved off questions about White House complicity in the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, refusing even to flatly deny that he was personally involved. — Bush also declined to say whether …
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Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
Poll puts Tories 12 points ahead of Labour — Gordon Brown's personal approval rating has slumped to an all-time low as a Daily Telegraph opinion poll today shows that Labour would lose 100 MPs if an election was held now. — The YouGov poll indicates that the Conservatives go into the new year with a 12-point lead over Labour.
The Politico:
Dem leaders pressured to alter war strategy — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, despite their pledges to continue pushing to end the war in Iraq, face growing pressure from their rank-and-file Democrats to focus more attention on domestic, “pocketbook” issues in the upcoming election year.
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Captain's Quarters
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.
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