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11:45 AM ET, January 5, 2008

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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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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.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
TRB Calls the Democratic Race!  —  A few post-Iowa thoughts:  —  1. In his book about the Democratic Leadership Council, “Reinventing Democrats,” Ken Baer recounts how DLC-ites always imagined Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign as a centrist crusade to take the party back from its orthodox liberal wing …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Matthew Yglesias
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Bill Clinton takes a swipe at media  —  Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media's coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama.  —  He also expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived …
Gateway Pundit:
HILLARY BOOED In New Hampshire!  —  Democrats smell blood.  —  This is like watching a pack of wild hyenas turn on their matriarch after she gets a bum leg.  —  There was a feeding frenzy at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Dinner on Friday.  —  And, the main course was Hillary.
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 …
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
Washington Post:
Clinton's Supporters Question Her Strategy
Discussion: New York Times and Betsy's Page
Dan Balz / The Trail:   Will N.H. Be Obama Territory, Too?
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.
Discussion: MSNBC, Hullabaloo and PoliGazette
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Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com:   Mitt's Divided Strategy
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle# Washington D.C. Newspapers:
Our View: Wyoming GOP caucuses futile
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 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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The Corner:
Obama: Ecstasy & Agony
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.
DTM / 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 …
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.
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Inside the Ring  —  Inside the Ring  —  Coughlin sacked  —  Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, has been fired from his position on the military's Joint Staff.  The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work …
Walter Shapiro / Salon:
Iowa in the rear-view mirror  —  ON THE LAST PLANE OUT OF IOWA — By early afternoon Friday, downtown Des Moines looked like just another medium-sized Midwestern city.  A pile of leftover “Hillary” signs in the lobby of the Hotel Fort Des Moines appeared wan, a couple of out-of-staters wearing Obama buttons …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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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Helping Huck  —  I am informed that Dick Morris and Newt Gingrich …
 

 
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