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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 …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Obama: The Movement Has Begun — NASHUA, N.H. — The line snaked for at least a half mile from the entrance of Nashua North High School. The first people in it had arrived at 7:30 a.m. — two-and-a-half hours before Barack Obama was scheduled to start speaking.
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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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.
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 …
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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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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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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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 …