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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Two Earthquakes — I've been through election nights that brought a political earthquake to the country. I've never been through an election night that brought two. — Barack Obama has won the Iowa caucuses. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel moved by this.
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New York Post:
CLINTONS NO LONGER THE LIFE OF PARTY — DES MOINES, Iowa - Awaiting her coronation here last night, Hillary Rodham Clinton instead faced a seething revolt within her own party. — More than 70 percent of Iowa Democrats rejected her bid to get back into the White House.
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Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby New Hampshire Poll: McCain Leads Romney; Clinton Leads Obama as Edwards Hits 20% — Huckabee a distant third, Rudy fourth — UTICA, New York - Republican John McCain has leapt into first place in the GOP primary race in New Hampshire, while Clinton holds on to a six-point edge …
The Politico:
HRC team retools strategy, predicts N.H. win — Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to target what her campaign calls Barack Obama's inexperience over the next five days in New Hampshire and deliver much sharper — and likely much more personal and negative — attacks against the Iowa winner …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Obama Takes Iowa in a Big Turnout as Clinton Falters; Huckabee Victor — DES MOINES — Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, a first-term Democratic senator trying to become the nation's first African-American president, rolled to victory in the Iowa caucuses on Thursday night …
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Out With the Old, In With the New — Obama and Huckabee rise; Mrs. Clinton falls. — And so it begins. — We wanted exciting, we got exciting. — As this is written, late on the night of the caucuses, the outlines of the decisions seem clear: Barack Obama won.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Worthless chatter — I love when this happens. It's a reminder that the political prattle that spews forth from group-think media stars without end and which consumes our political dialogue for a full year is based on absolutely nothing. Also, most predictive “analysis” …
Ben Adler / The Politico:
Resignation greets Thompson's third place — DES MOINES, Iowa — Nothing makes for a lackluster afterparty like a tie for third place. And that's where Fred Thompson finished in Thursday's caucus. — The former Tennessee senator won 13 percent support, too close to Arizona Sen. John McCain …
National Journal:
Data Bomb — Three weeks before the 2006 midterm elections gave Democrats control of Congress, a shocking study reported on the number of Iraqis who had died in the ongoing war. It bolstered criticism of President Bush and heightened the waves of dread — here and around the world — about the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
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Stephen Green / VodkaPundit:
An Open Letter — I'll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people? — The news coming out of Des Moines (literally, French for “tell me about the rabbits, George") tonight is distressing in the extreme. 32 years ago …
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Steve Kornacki / New York Observer:
Obama Makes a Clinton-Campaign Joke — Inside an old airplane hangar at what used to be Pease Airforce Base in Portsmouth, Barack Obama made his first New Hampshire appearance since his Iowa victory. — He recited his standard stump speech, but there was a confident, almost giddy …
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Richard Sisk / NY Daily News:
Giuliani stays positive despite weak campaign — BEDFORD, N.H. - He flatlined in Iowa and he's struggling in New Hampshire, but Rudy Giuliani shook off the early-state blues Thursday as only he can. — “None of this worries me - Sept. 11, there were times I was worried,” Giuliani said.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
MCCAIN: “WHAT ABOUT 100?” — This video is all you need to know about the McCain candidacy. I was actually in the audience. I heard the guy challenge McCain on the war. I knew McCain was going to push back. But his style of reply was astonishing. When the questioner asked …
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Redstate:
McCain on a Roll — I'm listening in on the John McCain conference call. McCain says that, like in Iowa, negative ads by Mitt Romney will not work. He thinks that Romney is going to go more negative. McCain's response will be to go back on Romney with what both Boston newspaper …
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
New Democrats, Changing Democrats — I'm looking over the 2008 and 2004 Iowa entrance polls right now. Four years ago, 79% of the Iowa electorate were Democrats. This year, 76% self-identified as Democrats. The huge turnout was just about as Democratic as the 2004 turnout.
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