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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama hits Edwards on 527 group — In Oskaloosa this morning, in response to a questioner who said he saw Hillary fading and the choice as being between Obama and Edwards, the Illinois senator suggested that outside spending on Edwards' behalf is part of a broader pattern with his rival.
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Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Obama, Edwards Go Long — Edging in Iowa, Campaigns Look Beyond — Having drawn Hillary Clinton into a trench war in Iowa, her Democratic rivals are stepping up the pressure in New Hampshire and beyond. — Both Barack Obama and John Edwards devoted some last-minute campaign time here this past week …
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Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:
Romney and McCain campaigns tangle over taxes — NORTH CONWAY, New Hampshire (CNN) - Mitt Romney told a crowd in notoriously tax-averse New Hampshire Saturday that rival John McCain had “failed Reagan 101″ by not supporting President Bush's tax cuts, the latest in a series of new attacks …
Rasmussen Reports:
For or Against Presidential Candidates — Clinton and Romney Have Highest Level of Core Opposition Among Leading Candidates — Among the leading Presidential candidates, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney have the highest level of core opposition among voters.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
What Choice Was There? — The Washington Post reports this morning that Hillary Clinton has reached the earth-shaking conclusion that she has to embrace her husband in her campaign to win the presidency in 2008. Apparently, this strategy created controversy in her campaign despite …
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Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950 — A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Huck offers olive branch to Rush, asks for him to get in touch — SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The best-talking Republican politician in America has a message for the best-talking conservative voice in the country: Let's talk to one another. — Mike Huckabee, taking questions from reporters …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Huck vows to review controversial shooting — Mike Huckabee vowed in Iowa Saturday that one of his first actions as president would be to review what he called the “absurd” convictions of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean - and suggested he might pardon them immediately.
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David Barstow / New York Times:
A Request for Clemency Leads to a Political Issue for Huckabee — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It took a jury less than 15 minutes to convict Eugene Fields of driving while intoxicated, his fourth such conviction in less than five years. Mr. Fields, whose pickup crashed after he drank 12 beers …
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Linda Chavez / Townhall.com:
Destroying CIA Tapes Deserves a Thank You — His name isn't yet familiar to most Americans, but I expect it will be by the end of 2008: Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. He is the man, according to recent press reports, who ordered the destruction of interrogation tapes made by the CIA …
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Huckabee dogged by immigration issue — From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy — ON THE ROAD, IA - So what happened to Tom Tancredo's Iowa supporters after his ‘big announcement’ earlier this week? — We know that the former-candidate threw his support behind Mitt Romney …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics — $1 Billion Project to Include Images of Irises and Faces — CLARKSBURG, W. Va. — The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Gen. David Petraeus, Man of the Year — Time magazine got it wrong. — I remember the excitement. It was the week before Christmas a year ago, and I had lazily picked up my copy of Time magazine. And there it was: Time's Person of the Year for 2006 is “You." — Wow!
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Naive or hard-nosed? — Mark Schmitt has an interesting American Prospect piece on Obama's “theory of change,” in which he argues that the talk about reaching out to Republicans is “a hard-nosed tactic of community organizers." — Listening to Obama this morning after reading the piece …
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