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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Can't Anyone Play This Here Game? — If any presidential primary ever exemplified None Of The Above, it's the one inflicted on us now. According to Rasmussen, everyone gets a negative favorability rating in this race — and I mean everyone (via Memeorandum):
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Election 2008: Clinton vs. Giuliani & Romney — One Point Apart: Clinton and Giuliani, Clinton and Romney — In a general election match-up, both Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney find themselves in a toss-up with Hillary Clinton. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone shows Giuliani …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
2 Candidates, 2 Fortunes, 2 Views of Wealth — By the final weeks of 1984, well before either turned 40, John Edwards and Mitt Romney had already built successful careers. But the two men were each on the verge of an entirely new level of financial success.
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Chip Reid / CBS News:
Five Things I Learned in Ten Days With Edwards — From CBS News Capitol Hill Correspondent Chip Reid, who's covering the Edwards campaign: — SOMEWHERE ON THE ROAD IN IOWA — Like the other presidential candidates, John Edwards is heading home for a few days over Christmas, which means we embedded journalists can do the same.
Concord Monitor:
Romney should not be the next president — December 22. — If you were building a Republican presidential candidate from a kit, imagine what pieces you might use: an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Savior or Saboteur? — Once it was about Hillary, but now, of course, it's about Bill. — Our ubiquitous ex-president is playing his favorite uxorious game, and it goes like this: Let's create chaos and then get out of it together. You ride to my rescue or I ride to yours.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
A Résumé Can't Buy You Love — WE can only imagine what is going on inside John McCain's head when he contemplates Mike Huckabee. It can't be pretty. No presidential candidate in either party has more experience in matters of war than the Arizona senator …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Christmas Ad That Topped Them All — CapQ readers want to have an eggnog with him, and now we know why. Fred Thompson just released the best Christmas ad in this cycle, one in which no one will find floating crosses, holiday fruitcake, downer lighting, and especially tone-deaf “gifts” …
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Pakistan's Islamic Parties Struggle for Support — 5 Years After Sweep In NW Province, Backers Frustrated — PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In 2002, Ibrar Hussein voted for an Islamic takeover. — Fed up both with Pakistan's military-led government and with the mainstream, secular opposition …
Aaron Lewis / CBS News:
Edwards Says He'll Take On Big Insurance Companies — From CBS News' Aaron Lewis: — NEVADA, IOWA — John Edwards tonight cited the case of a 17-year-old California girl who died after her insurance company refused coverage on a liver transplant to save her life as a call to action to change …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Iran Cited In Iraq's Decline in Violence — Order From Tehran Reined In Militias, U.S. Official Says — The Iranian government has decided “at the most senior levels” to rein in the violent Shiite militias it supports in Iraq, a move reflected in a sharp decrease in sophisticated roadside bomb attacks …
David S. Bernstein / Talking Politics:
WHEN A CLAIM BECOMES OFFENSIVE — Two women contacted the Mitt Romney campaign this week, offering their memories of seeing Romney's father march with Martin Luther King Jr., in Grosse Point Michigan in 1963. Campaign officials were well aware that the women were mistaken.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Thompson's Waterloo (Iowa) — Is he Napoleon or Wellington? — Waterloo, Iowa — Forty-five minutes before Fred Thompson spoke here last Tuesday night, young volunteers greeted reporters and potential Iowa voters just inside the front door of the Waterloo Center for the Arts.
Lindsay Hamilton / Political Radar:
Giuliani: Hospital visit was a result of a “headache worse than I've ever had” — ABC News' Jonathan Greenberger reports: Three days after turning around his campaign plane and checking into a hospital after experiencing flu-like symptoms, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani says he is in “fine health.”
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Bill Clinton: Hillary's Political Boon Or Political Albatross? — To many, the 2000 Presidential election was really about “the Bush restoration” — bringing back the Bushes after the unseemly interruption of Democrat Bill Clinton's Presidency. And now there are growing signs that the 2008 primary …
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