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7:00 AM ET, January 2, 2008

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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Kucinich Tells Supporters to Caucus for Obama  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Representative Dennis Kucinich urged his Iowa followers today to select Senator Barack Obama as their second choice at the caucuses on Thursday if his support is not strong enough to be viable in the 1,781 precincts across the state.
Discussion: musings
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Washington Times:
Kucinich urges supporters to make Obama second pick
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
KUCINICH URGES SUPPORTERS TO BACK OBAMA...
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Romney says Bush mismanaged Iraq war  —  JOHNSTON, Iowa (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Tuesday the Bush administration mismanaged the Iraq war, distancing himself from his party's unpopular president two days before Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential contest.
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Jane Norman / Des Moines Register:   Grassley: Giuliani's curtailed Iowa campaign ‘a big mistake’
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Democrats: More Than Health Care  —  Perhaps you have heard that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have come up with different health care plans.  Hers would require every American to own health insurance.  His would not.  —  That difference is the only one between the two candidates …
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Tom Schaller / American Prospect:   EDWARDS' GAME PLAN FOR SECOND-CHOICERS
Washington Wire:
Clinton, Obama Top $100 Million for 2007
Discussion: Say Anything
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Edwards Calls for Quick Pullout of Troops Training Iraqi Forces  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa — John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police as part of a broader plan to remove virtually all American forces within 10 months.
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Atrios / Eschaton:   Against the Democratic Party  —  people need training!
Hindustan Times:
Pak Govt makes U-turn on cause of Bhutto's death  —  In a dramatic U-turn, Pakistan government has “apologised” for claiming that former premier Benazir Bhutto died of a skull fracture after hitting the sunroof of her car during a suicide attack.  —  Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
World's Top Surveillance Societies — Updated with link  —  Privacy International, a UK privacy group, and the U.S.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center have put together a world map of surveillance societies, rating various nations for their civil liberties records.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Samizdata.net
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Deign or Reign?  —  Edith Wessel, an 80-year-old white-haired retired nurse, moved slowly up the aisle with her walker after listening to Hillary make her pitch.  —  She told one of the Hillary volunteers that she had “great admiration” for the senator, but also great doubts about whether …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Mike Huckabee / CNN:
New Huckabee ad appeals to Christian conservatives  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - For the second time in the past two weeks, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has aired a commercial in which a Christian symbol appears in the background.  —  In the campaign ad, Huckabee is addressing members …
Holly Ramer / Associated Press:
Americans frustrated by influence wielded by Iowa, New Hampshire  —  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — All eyes may be on Iowa and New Hampshire, but many of them are rolling.  —  Despite efforts to evict the two states from the front of the presidential calendar, both managed to hang on for another election cycle …
Discussion: Ben's blog and JammieWearingFool
Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Biden hits rivals on Pakistan policy  —  DES MOINES — Misstatements about the crisis in Pakistan by Mike Huckabee, the leader in polls of Republicans heading into Thursday's Iowa caucuses, have been a major focus in the GOP race during the past week.  Today Senator Joe Biden of Delaware tried …
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Jerusalem Post:
Olmert says Israel must internalize divided J'lem  —  Israel needs to internalize that even its supportive friends on the international stage conceive of the country's future on the basis of the 1967 borders and with Jerusalem divided, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has declared to The Jerusalem Post.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
‘Hikers’ killers were from Fatah'  —  The terrorists who gunned down two off-duty soldiers hiking near Hebron on Friday are both Palestinian Authority workers, and one of them is even a member of the official PA security forces, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) revealed Tuesday night.
John Distaso / UnionLeader.com:
Debates: Who's in, who's out, who's mad  —  This weekend's presidential debates and forum will not include some nationally known candidates, and the chairmen of the state Republican and Democratic parties are not happy.  —  Fergus Cullen and Raymond Buckley say the decisions by ABC News …
Discussion: Blue Hampshire and MoJoBlog
Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Bloomberg Denies Presidential Run...to Ryan Seacrest?  —  ABC News' Kate McCarthy and Ed O'Keefe Report: In a late entry, the award for best political question in the most unusual circumstance goes to . . . Ryan Seacrest!  —  On ABC's “Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve” …
Discussion: Donklephant
 
 
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Vince Leibowitz / Capitol Annex:
Yanez Supreme Court Filing Doesn't Contain Enough Valid Signatures
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Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
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 Earlier Items: 
Dan Gearino / Quad City Times:
Huckabee pokes fun at Bush over reading intelligence reports
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
DMR Poll: Majority of Obama Support Not From Democrats
Michelle Malkin:
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Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner:
What If?  —  I wonder what would have happened if McCain had won the nomination in 2000.
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Matthew Yglesias:
The Possibly Not Coming Storm
Discussion: Eschaton
The Campaign Spot:
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Poll: Clinton, McCain lead in NH