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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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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 …
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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New York Times:
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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Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Stop Lying About Huckabee and Evangelicals! — Predictably enough, most media commentators have totally misinterpreted the nature of Mike Huckabee's big win in the Iowa GOP caucuses. Conventional wisdom says that he swept to victory based on overwhelming support from Evangelicals, but conventional wisdom is flat-out wrong.
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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 …
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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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Is Bill Clinton About To Sandbag Hillary Clinton's Campaign? — It is often been said that former President Bill Clinton is Senator Hillary Clinton's closest, best and most astute political advisor. If that's the case and a recent statement he reportedly made is any indication, she should consider firing him and getting a new one.
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Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
Hillary Clinton leans on husband 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 …
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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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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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.
Dr. Helen:
Is Senator Obama a Rorschach Test? — Dick Meyers at CBS News has an interesting piece on voters' projections of the Democratic Candidates (Hat tip: Anchoress ). He says of Obama: … When I listen to people talk about Obama, I hear nothing but vague ideals mentioned such as “change …
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Lindsay Murdoch / Sydney Morning Herald:
Bali bomber feels ‘beautiful’ facing end — ONE of the Bali bombers has written from his Indonesian jail that he feels so “beautiful” on the eve of his execution that “no words can describe how good the feeling is". — Mukhlas, the elder brother of the so-called smiling assassin Amrozi …
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.