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11:10 PM ET, January 7, 2008

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Rivals Reacts to Teary Clinton — ABC News' David Muir, Raelyn Johnson and Sunlen Miller Report: Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., on the tail end of his 36-hour campaigning marathon in New Hampshire on day before the primary vote, reacted to rival Sen. Hillary Clinton's emotional moment Monday.

USA Today:

Gallup: Clinton-Obama tied nationally; Huckabee leads GOP — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama each drew 33% of the support from Democrats surveyed in its latest national poll, Gallup just announced. — In mid-December, well before Obama won last Thursday's Democratic caucuses in Iowa …

Discussion: The Politico, Spin Cycle, Liberal Values, MyDD and Macsmind

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Clinton fights back tears: 'It's not easy' — Exhausted and facing the prospect of losing the second test of her primary campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton fought back tears as her voice broke at the close of a sedate event in a Portsmouth coffee shop. — She expressed the sheer difficulty …

Discussion: TPM Election Central, Taylor Marsh, The New Republic, The Carpetbagger Report, Attytood, Liberty Pundit, Beltway Blogroll, Tom Watson, Blogs of War, Donklephant, Punditry, Right Wing Nut House and Talking Points Memo

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Huckabee, Obama Gain at National Level — Huckabee leads; Obama moves into tie with Clinton — PRINCETON, NJ — Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama — both winners in last week's Iowa caucuses — have gained support at the national level among those who identify with their respective parties.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Say Anything and Open Left

Drudge Report:

TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS — Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!

Discussion: NY Daily News, Taylor Marsh, Power Line, Riehl World View, Blogs of War, The Caucus, Flopping Aces, The Carpetbagger Report, Political Machine, Citizen Crain, Macsmind, Sister Toldjah, Hot Air, Captain's Quarters, American Power, No More Mister Nice Blog, Wonkette and PunditGuy

CNN:

Clinton gets emotional at New Hampshire stop — PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (CNN) — Hillary Clinton became visibly emotional at a New Hampshire campaign event today after a friendly question from a voter. — At the close of a Portsmouth campaign stop, Marianne Pernold-Young, 64, asked Clinton: “How do you do it?

Discussion: THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, UNCoRRELATED, NewsBusters.org, TIME: Swampland and The Page

CNN:

Romney: I can ‘post up against Barack Obama’ — STRATHAM, New Hampshire (CNN) — Mitt Romney has been shifting his message to focus on change following Barack Obama as the likely Democratic nominee. — Romney said Republicans need a nominee who can compete with Obama.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Citizen Crain

Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Clinton Gets Emotional on Campaign Trail

Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Can Clinton's Emotions Get the Best of Her?

Discussion: Think Progress, Cogitamus, The Moderate Voice and Making Light

Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Clinton heightens terrorism rhetoric

Discussion: NY Daily News, Matt Zeitlin, Sadly, No!, D-Day, Shakespeare's Sister, The Carpetbagger Report, Spin Cycle, The Belmont Club, Too Sense and Daily Kos

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Some Hillary Advisers Worry About Staying In Past New Hampshire …

Discussion: PoliGazette

Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Clinton's Sincerity Moment

Discussion: Eschaton, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Needlenose, Oliver Willis, Marc Ambinder and L.A. Times

The Anchoress:
Will 2008 finish what 1968 began?

Discussion: Power Line

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:

RedState Tells Readers Scoop Developers Are All Liberals, So Fork Over $25 Grand — I realize that there's one born every minute, but in a letter to RedState readers, Erick Erickson says that their readers need to raise $25,000 in order to keep them from being overrun by a liberal plot:

Discussion: Lonewacko

Atrios / Eschaton:

Conservative Victims — From Red State. This is pretty hilarious even for them. … There's more, but you get the idea. It's the fault of liberals that they can't run their website because... hell I don't know.

Discussion: Corrente, The Supreme Irony of Life and Angry Bear

Redstate:

RedState has a real need for your help — When we started RedState in May of 2004, we used a website program called Scoop — the same program a lot of similar sites on the left used. But, as the number of visitors to our site grew, Scoop kept crashing on us.

Discussion: Bluey Blog, PoliBlog (TM) and KnoxViews

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Clinton and Obama, Johnson and King — Clinton rejoined the running argument over hope and “false hope” in an interview in Dover this afternoon, reminding Fox's Major Garrett that while Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on behalf of civil rights, President Lyndon Johnson was the one who got the legislation passed.

Discussion: FOX Embeds, Jack and Jill Politics, The Daily Dish, Think On These Things, MyDD, AMERICAblog, Slog, Oliver Willis and Riehl World View

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BAD CALL — There's been a lot of rough news for Hillary Clinton in the last 72 hours.

Discussion: TalkLeft and Political Punch

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

BILL TO PAUL SUPPORTERS: 'YOU'RE NUTS' — From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli — KEENE, NH — Several Ron Paul supporters shadowed a much larger Clinton entourage as Bill Clinton greeted supporters downtown. The former president later called them “nuts." — During his third stop of the day …

Discussion: The Corner

John Amato / Crooks and Liars:

Sean Hannity Flees from Ron Paul Supporters — Ron Paul supporters were yelling “ FOX News Sucks” and chasing after Sean Hannity the other night. “Hey Hannity, how about an interview?" “We're not falling for it anymore” “You suck Sean"...FNC shut out Ron Paul from their Republican Presidential forum …

Discussion: Firedoglake, WTF Is It Now?!?, Shakespeare's Sister and You Decide 08!

Think Progress:

O'Hanlon Mourns That Obama Was Right On Iraq — Brookings fellow Michael O'Hanlon continues his abysmal record of staking out the wrong positions on Iraq in an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal, criticizing presidential candidate and Illinois Senator Barack Obama's position on the war.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Center for American …, INTEL DUMP, Open Left, Commentary, The Newshoggers, Matthew Yglesias and Cogitamus

Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:

Whoopsie! Kristol's First New York Times Column Attributes Quote To Wrong Author — So those critics who argued against the appointment of Bill Kristol as a New York Times columnist because of the quality of his work — rather than merely because of ideology — will now have yet more proof that they were on to something.

Discussion: Sadly, No!, michellemalkin.com, Matthew Yglesias, Campaign for America's Future, The Opinionator and American Power

Steve Benen / Crooks and Liars: Kristol off to a bad start: Video Mash up!

Nikki Finke / Deadline Hollywood Daily:

IT'S OFFICAL NOW: NBC And Hollywood Foreign Press Scrap Big Televised Golden Globes Show For Scaled Down Newscast Of Award Winners Being Announced Live — (Keep refreshing for latest news)... MONDAY PM: Hollywood Scuttles Golden Globe Parties; WGA May Still Set Up Picket Line Sunday

Discussion: L.A. Times