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Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
New Iowa Poll: Obama widens lead over Clinton — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has widened his lead in Iowa over Hillary Clinton and John Edwards heading into Thursday's nominating caucuses, according to The Des Moines Register's final Iowa Poll before the 2008 nominating contests.
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Jonathan Roos / Des Moines Register:
GOP poll: Huckabee maintains lead over Romney — Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister riding a wave of support from fundamentalist Christians, tops Mitt Romney for first place in a new Des Moines Register poll of Iowans planning to attend Thursday's Republican caucuses.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs: DMR poll analysis: Huck hanging on, Fred fading, McCain rising
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:Saying He Pulled Negative Ad, Huckabee Shows It
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Associated Press:
ABC, Fox News cutting low-polling presidential candidates out of debates — NEW YORK: ABC and Fox News Channel are narrowing the field of presidential candidates invited to debates this weekend just before the New Hampshire primary, in Fox's case infuriating supporters of Republican Ron Paul.
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Paul Supporters Target Fox News — Susan Davis reports from Des Moines, Iowa, on the presidential race. — Republican Rep. Ron Paul and his supporters are targeting the Fox News network today after an Internet discussion spread during the weekend that the cable network wasn't giving …
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CNN:
Protesters block Huckabee — DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) - Anti-war protestors and Ron Paul supporters both kept Mike Huckabee from entering his Iowa campaign headquarters through the front door Monday. — Three people who managed to break inside — holding a sign that said “What Would Jesus Bomb?”
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John Distaso / New Hampshire Union Leader:FOX, ABC to reduce debate fields
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Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Did Huckabee go too far? — DES MOINES, Iowa - Mike Huckabee may have finally gone too far. — After running an unconventional, surprisingly strong and sometimes strange race to the top tier of the Republican presidential campaign, the former Arkansas governor topped himself Monday …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Huckabee's Remarkable Play — DES MOINES — Talk about political jujitsu! — Mike Huckabee is holding a press conference right now in which he was supposed to unveil a new negative ad against arch rival Mitt Romney. — But Mr. Huckabee came to the press conference and announced …
Joe Klein / TIME: Swampland:Huckabust — Just when you think the Republican presidential race …
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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Nader throws support to Edwards — MUSCATINE, Iowa — Ralph Nader unleashed on Hillary Rodham Clinton Monday - criticizing her for being soft on defense spending and a chum of big business - and expressed his strong support for John Edwards. — In an 11th hour effort to encourage liberal Iowans to …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:THE UNDEMOCRATIC CAUCUSES ARE A TERRIBLE WAY TO CHOOSE A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
Saeed Shah / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Bhutto report: Musharraf planned to fix elections — NAUDERO, Pakistan — The day she was assassinated last Thursday, Benazir Bhutto had planned to reveal new evidence alleging the involvement of Pakistan's intelligence agencies in rigging the country's upcoming elections, an aide said Monday.
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Peter Graff / Reuters:
In a safer Baghdad, Iraqis party for 2008 — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - On New Year's Eve Ridaa al-Azzawi squeezed into his pointy snakeskin boots, his tight black sweater and his snazzy corduroy flared jeans, hustled down to a Baghdad hotel ballroom and partied for peace.
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Bloomberg:
Defaults on Insured Mortgages Rise 35% to Record — Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Defaults on privately insured U.S. mortgages rose 35 percent in November to a record, an industry report today showed, adding to evidence the U.S. housing slump is deepening. — The number of insured borrowers falling …
Kim Smith / Arizona Daily Star:
UA law student, beauty queen faces kidnapping and robbery charges — A University of Arizona law school student and beauty queen has been indicted on charges that say she and three others held her former boyfriend captive for 10 hours while torturing and robbing him.
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Dr. Helen
Spiegel Online:
Muslim Minority Marches Against German Crime Show — The popular German TV series “Tatort” has provoked an uproar within a segment of its Turkish community. Alevi Muslims, who practice a tolerant offshoot of Shiism, say the show has revived a centuries-old incest libel and may inflame immigrant tensions in Germany.
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Middle East Times:
OP-ED: Thomas Houlahan — How credible is Hillary Clinton on Pakistan? — Last weekend after returning to my office from the television studios of a major network where I had done a brief segment on the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, I turned on CNN to watch their coverage of the Bhutto assassination's aftermath.
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