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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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.
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Senator Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
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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New York Times:
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.
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Hillary's Debate Moment — It won't come across on the transcript, but Sen. Hillary Clinton got angry during the debate tonight. — She was bickering with Sen. Barack Obama about their differences on health insurance, and whether Obama's plan leaves millions of Americans uninsured.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Dem Debate Roundup: Work Horse Versus Show Horse — A quick rundown on last night's Dem debate highlights... Here's the moment that came as close as possible to capturing, in a brief exchange, the entire argument between Hillary and Obama: … Hoping to highlight this disagreement …
ABCNEWS:
TRANSCRIPT: ABC News/Facebook/WMUR Democratic Debate — Four Democratic Contenders Debate in New Hampshire … SAWYER: And that's Charlie Gibson talking to the new crowd that has come in for the Democratic contenders as they gear up to begin their debate in just a few minutes, as we say.
George McGovern / Washington Post:
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.
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
“I Thought That Mitt Romney Won The debate.” — Dick Morris is no friend of Mitt Romney, and his declaration of Romney as the “winner” tonight is the assessment that caught my eye. That's called “an admission against interest,” and it is very significant. I think I know why.
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Michael Scherer / TIME: Swampland:
The GOP's High School Debate: The cool kid vs. the valedictorian
The GOP's High School Debate: The cool kid vs. the valedictorian
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Jeremy Clarkson / Times of London:
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 …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
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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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
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 …
George Will / Real Clear Politics:
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 …
Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby New Hampshire Tracking Poll: GOP and Dem Deadlocks in the Granite State — But there is clearly movement under the surface — UTICA, New York - Republican Mitt Romney slipped barely ahead of rival John McCain in what still looks like a two-man race on the GOP side of the aisle.
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The Corner:
McCain and the Debate — The more I thought about it last night, the less well his performance sat with me. I think he won as a political matter and now would be surprised if he doesn't win handily in New Hampshire. But he was nasty toward Romney, letting his hatred—and I used that word advisedly—show.
Bryan / Hot Air:
GOP debate videos: Fred defines amnesty; Huck chucks on the surge; a face in the crowd — A man of few words, Fred Thompson, but the few words he does uses, he uses well. Here he whacks at both John McCain and Rudy Giuliani for their illegal immigration policies.
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Marc Ambinder:
The GOP Debate: Thoughts....
The GOP Debate: Thoughts....
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