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The GOP Debate: Thoughts.... On points, Fred Thompson won the debate. — Every answer was thoughtful and well-crafted; his tone matched the tone of the question; he wisely refrained from interjecting in the back and forth squabbling. He very deftly reminded viewers that he served …
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Tight race in New Hampshire, post caucus poll shows — MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — With three days to go until the New Hampshire primary, it's dead even in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. — A new CNN/WMUR New Hampshire presidential primary poll conducted …
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Too Much Romney-Bashing — A quick thought on the GOP debate: — Mitt-bashing has been a preoccupation of this blog*, and it was out in full-force tonight. Huckabee kicked off the proceedings after Romney told him to worry about explaining his own position “and I'll explain mine.”

The GOP's High School Debate: The cool kid vs. the valedictorian
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Saturday night jive: The New Hampshire debates; Round One - GOP candidates
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The Democratic Debate in New Hampshire — The following is the transcript of the Democratic presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., as transcribed by Federal News Service. — DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE PARTICIPANTS: — FORMER SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC)
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Democratic Debate: Edwards Backs Up Obama — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) cast off the magnanimous, above-the-fray approach she had used up until now in the campaign, aggressively challenging Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) over which of the three can truly bring about change.

MY TAKE ON THE DEM DEBATE — So, a few observations about the Democratic debate. — First, a few months ago, I said that I didn't get what Barack Obama thought he was doing in one of the debates, that he was doing a very good job debating as the frontrunner, when in fact he was falling further and further behind Hillary Clinton.


At Debate, Two Rivals Go After Defiant Clinton — MANCHESTER, N.H. — It was as if they sensed vulnerability. — Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards went after Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as never before in a televised debate here on Saturday night.

DEBATE BLOGGING: EDWARDS AGAINST HIMSELF.
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Playbook: Bradley to endorse Obama — Good Sunday morning. — The local front of the (Manchester) Union Leader has a story about media groupies who, in a quadrennial ritual, congregate around hotels in hopes of getting a photo with Chris Wallace or Tucker Carlson.
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For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets — A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. — Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI …

Why I Believe Bush Must Go — Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse. — As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.


Scratch an Independent Bloomberg and Get a Democrat, Positions Show — Hundreds of miles from the hustings of New Hampshire lurks a possible presidential candidate who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and stricter regulation of handguns. Who doesn't mind taxing the rich on their income …

The Republican Debate in New Hampshire — Following is the transcript of the Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., as transcribed by Federal News Service. — PARTICIPANTS: FORMER NEW YORK MAYOR RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI — FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR MIKE …

The Problem with Populists — WASHINGTON — Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress. Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise. Social conservatives …
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U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan — WASHINGTON — President Bush's senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan.