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12:30 PM ET, December 30, 2007

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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Iowa: Edwards surges, Huckabees bubble bursts  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — John Edwards has clawed his way into contention to win Iowa's caucuses on Thursday in the first vote for the Democratic presidential nomination, gaining strength even as rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have lost ground, according to a new McClatchy-MSNBC poll.
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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: Clinton Leads Dems; GOP Deadlocked  —  Race is close on both sides of the aisle, as Obama challenges Clinton and Romney challenges Huckabee  —  UTICA, New York - Democrat Hillary Clinton leads narrowly among likely caucus-goers in Iowa, while the race …
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Clinton leads in Iowa; Huckabee, Romney even: Poll  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a narrow lead in Iowa four days before the state opens the presidential nominating race, while Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are virtually tied, according to a Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Huckabee calls Romney ‘desperate’
Discussion: The Swamp
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:   In final days, focus turns to key voters
New York Times:
Courting Iowa's Undecided Voters With a Late Push
Discussion: The Swamp
New York Times:
The Times Adds an Op-Ed Columnist  —  William Kristol, one of the nation's leading conservative writers and a vigorous supporter of the Iraq war, will become an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, the newspaper announced Saturday.  —  Mr. Kristol will write a weekly column for The Times beginning Jan. 7, the newspaper said.
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Times defends hiring conservative Kristol  —  The New York Times' hiring of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol to write for its op-ed page caused a frenzy in the liberal blogosphere Friday night, with threats of canceling subscriptions and claims that the Gray Lady had been hijacked by neo-cons
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Are They That Afraid Of Bill Kristol?  —  The New York Times decided to bring another conservative commentator aboard their flailing op-ed pages, still recovering from their years-long cloister of TimesSelect.  They chose Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard, whose run at Time Magazine recently came to an end.
Discussion: BitsBlog and NewsBusters.org
Yahoo! News:
Bill Kristol Gets New York Times Op-Ed Slot
Discussion: The Corner, Exurban League and MoJoBlog
Washington Post:
Warning of Threats, Clinton Sells Clinton  —  Ex-President Emphasizes Wife's Experience  —  NASHUA, N.H. — Former president Bill Clinton yesterday delivered in stark terms a version of his wife's central campaign message: that her experience in Washington better prepares her to “deal with the unexpected.”
Discussion: On Deadline
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Concord Monitor:
Hillary Clinton is the Democrats' best choice  —  December 29.  —  Immediately after taking office, President Hillary Clinton would begin preparations to withdraw American troops from Iraq.  —  She would send a message to world leaders that the United States intends to rejoin the community of nations.
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Primary Monitor Blog:
Monitor endorsements: McCain, Clinton
Discussion: MSNBC, Concord Monitor and Taylor Marsh
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Bipartisan Zombies  —  It was inevitable.  I wrote about it right after the 2006 election —  as soon as the Republicans lost power, I knew the gasbags would insist that it's time to let bygones be bygones and meet the Republicans halfway in the spirit of a new beginning.
Discussion: Corrente
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid
Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Did McCain call Romney a 'pig'?  —  DOVER, N.H. — As Senator John McCain rolled down a New Hampshire highway today in his “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus, he listened to a description of the latest attack on him by his chief rival in this state's primary, Mitt Romney.
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:   Analysis: Romney and the candor gap
Inside Higher Ed:
A Moderate MLA  —  The Modern Language Association frequently helps out its critics with provocative session titles and left-leaning political stands offered by its members.  At this year's annual meeting, in Chicago, some MLA members have worried that the association was poised to take stances …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Israpundit
Walter Russell Mead / Los Angeles Times:
The great fall of China  —  Revised GDP calculations show that Beijing isn't the giant we thought it was.  —  The most important story to come out of Washington recently had nothing to do with the endless presidential campaign.  And although the media largely ignored it, the story changes the world.
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Simon Robinson / Time:
Bhutto's Successor  —  Benazir Bhutto's son has been anointed her successor, the slain former prime minister's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) confirmed today.  A senior PPP official had told TIME late Saturday that Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, would likely be named as her political heir and the new party leader on Sunday.
Dallas Morning News:
2007 DMN Texan of the Year: The Illegal Immigrant  —  He is at the heart of a great culture war in Texas - and the nation, credited with bringing us prosperity and blamed for abusing our resources.  How should we deal with this stranger among us?  —  He breaks the law by his very presence.
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
Immigration Is Defying Easy Answers
Discussion: Lonewacko
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
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Michael Dobbs / Washington Post:
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Think Progress:
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Obama Derides Outside Spending
Marc Ambinder:
Huckabee Has Heart, And It May Be Enough
Discussion: BitsBlog
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Washington Post:
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Ron Paul rips Fox News as ‘propangadists for war.’
Talia Dekel / Jerusalem Post:
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Shake, Rattle and Roil the Grand Ol' Coalition
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Report: Garrett Ventry, who will join NBC News' Election Night coverage as a Republican pundit on election day, registered as an agent of Qatar in September

 
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