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1:25 PM 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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
TRB Calls the Democratic Race!
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Matthew Yglesias
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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, MSNBC and PoliGazette
Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com:   Mitt's Divided Strategy
Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Stop Lying About Huckabee and Evangelicals!
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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New Hampshire Union Leader:
Suffolk/7 Saturday poll: A post-Iowa bounce for Obama?
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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.
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.
Discussion: The Newshoggers
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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.
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.
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 …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Feisty Mitt sharpens attacks  —  Mitt's message, as delivered to a few hundred people this morning in Derry, is starting to cut closer to the bone.  —  First, there was a reference to “Senate cloakrooms” where “senators are arm-in-arm with lobbyists."  —  Later, in discussing the need …
 
 
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