memeorandum: A Campaign Retools to Seek Second Clinton Comeback (New York Times)

1:10 PM ET, January 5, 2008

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A Campaign Retools to Seek Second Clinton Comeback — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in career-threatening scrapes before, but never quite like the one they face in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, when nothing less than their would-be dynasty will be on the line.

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Washington Post:

Clinton's Supporters Question Her Strategy — After an unexpectedly thorough defeat in Iowa, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faced a barrage of second-guessing Friday from supporters worried that her campaign strategy could cost her the Democratic nomination. — In a flurry of conference calls throughout …

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Nancy Benac / Associated Press:

Hillary Clinton leans on ‘relic’ Bill — WASHINGTON - In a presidential race where the Democratic candidates are competing as agents of change, Hillary Rodham Clinton's most reliable campaign prop is something of a political relic — her husband. — The former president was at her side …

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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
TRB Calls the Democratic Race!

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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Bill Clinton takes a swipe at media

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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
Air Spin One — Hours after Hillary Clinton finished …

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Jay Newton-Small / TIME: Swampland:

Hillary Booed at NH Democratic Party Dinner — If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any bell weather - Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner's last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!”

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Matthew Yglesias:

Clinton: Obama's Too Liberal — Hillary Clinton's campaign seems determined to convince Barack Obama's detractors in the blogosphere that he is so a liberal after all: … Progressive record? Heaven forbid! I thought he didn't have experience. — The Tom Edsall article I got …

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Gateway Pundit:
HILLARY BOOED In New Hampshire!

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Wyoming Tribune-Eagle# Washington D.C. Newspapers:

Our View: Wyoming GOP caucuses futile — On Saturday, a few Republicans from across Wyoming will converge at local county caucuses to pick delegates to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., in September. — Party leaders in the state believed by moving their caucuses …

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

Huckabee Moves to New Hampshire, With Tweaks to His Message — HENNIKER, N.H. — Fresh from his victory in the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee has to be considered a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. But that has not sobered up his distinctive Bible Belt-meets-Borscht Belt act on the stump.

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The Campaign Spot:
With 24 Hours Until Caucusing Ends, The Projected Winner in Wyoming Is...

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Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com: Mitt's Divided Strategy

Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Stop Lying About Huckabee and Evangelicals!

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New York Times:
McCain May Benefit From Huckabee's Jolt to G.O.P.

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of “social unraveling” if Obama loses — (updated below) — Over at National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a “theory” about what might help Obama win in the general election. After noting that Obama will be “the first serious mainstream black contender …

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Zogby:

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby New Hampshire Poll: McCain Leads Romney; Clinton Leads Obama as Edwards Remains at 20%... Zogby News Releases

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New Hampshire Union Leader:

Suffolk/7 Saturday poll: A post-Iowa bounce for Obama? — BOSTON - A new Suffolk University two-day tracking poll shows Barack Obama cutting into Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire. Mitt Romney still holds a slim edge over John McCain. — The first half of the survey was done on Thursday …

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

WTF? — Okay, I could come up with a few good snarky lines on this one. But I'll settle for someone just explaining to me what the hell Mike Huckabee's talking about. — TPMer Eric Kleefeld and I were chatting this evening about whether everyone's underestimating Huckabee's chances in this race.

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

The African-American Awakening — There's a great piece in the NYT today on it. It's what Obama himself predicted privately and publicly in the fall: that his mixed showing among black voters was a function of their disbelief that white voters would ever back a black man for president.

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Diane Cardwell / New York Times:

Daring to Believe, Blacks Savor Obama Victory — For Sadou Brown in a Los Angeles suburb, the decisive victory of Senator Barack Obama in Iowa was a moment to show his 14-year-old son what is possible. — For Mike Duncan in Maryland, it was a sign that Americans were moving beyond rigid thinking about race.

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Campaigns & Elections, politics …:

He's Absurdly Likeable. A Favorite of the Faithful. But, Does Mike Huckabee Have a Prayer? — Pick an issue - any issue - being debated in the United States of America as we approach the 2008 elections, and Mike Huckabee can find a way to tell you that it won't matter until we collectively slim down.

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Joseph A. Palermo / The Huffington Post:

Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater — Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, he made a point to travel to what today would be considered “red” states. Five days after he announced his candidacy, he visited Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.

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