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7:20 PM ET, January 7, 2008

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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?!
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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 …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Clinton Gets Emotional on Campaign Trail  —  ABC News' Kate Snow Reports: Campaigning in New Hampshire one day before the first-in-the-nation primary, Senator Hillary Clinton got emotional and had tears in her eyes as she spoke with voters about how hard it is to balance a busy campaign life and her passion for the country's future.
Michael Elmore / Political Radar:
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.
Robert Shrum / NY Daily News:
Sen. Clinton's massive mistake - and the final chance to fix it  —  Be Our Guest  —  If (although I strongly suspect the right word is “when") Hillary Clinton loses tomorrow's New Hampshire primary, there will be a few proto-obituaries for her campaign and many more stories about how it will be “shaken up” or “relaunched.”
Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Can Clinton's Emotions Get the Best of Her?  —  N.Y. Senator's Recent Displays of Emotion Have Political Analysts Buzzing  —  How voters interpret Sen. Hillary Clinton's composure — emotional, cold or just plain tough — could be a deciding factor in her campaign for the presidency, political analysts told ABCNEWS.com.
The Anchoress:
Will 2008 finish what 1968 began?
Discussion: Power Line and Associated Press
Todd Gitlin / The Coffee House:
Special Features Block New
Mike Allen / The Politico:
HRC retrenches in face of Obama surge
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
EMOTION ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
Discussion: Althouse and Marc Ambinder
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: Liberal Values, MyDD and Pollster.com
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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: Open Left and TIME
CNN:
Romney: I can ‘post up against Barack Obama’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Frank James / The Swamp:
Romney: If McCain loses in NH, he's toast
Discussion: The Politico, Hot Air and The Hill
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.
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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:
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Luntz Explains His Mystery Man  —  Right after last night's Republican Fox News debate, Frank Luntz appeared to demonstrate that, based on his focus group of New Hampshire Republicans, Mitt Romney was the big winner.  —  But as Josh pointed out, the group's unanimity of opinion and blind insistence …
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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.
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Aaron Bruns / FOX Embeds:
Clinton Talks Tears with Fox News
Discussion: Political Punch
Michael O'Hanlon / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Iraq  —  One of Sen. Barack Obama's many strengths is his ability to inspire beyond party lines.  Because he lacks the baggage of the past, and because his melodic message of hope speaks to many, he garnered much more support from independents in Iowa than either Hillary Clinton or John Edwards.
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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.
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New York Times:
U.S. Describes Confrontation With Iranian Boats  —  WASHINGTON — In a brief confrontation in the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, five armed Iranian fast boats took aggressive actions on Sunday around three United States Navy warships in international waters, according to a Pentagon spokesman …
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Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Clinton heightens terrorism rhetoric  —  DOVER, N.H. - Facing the prospect of defeat in tomorrow's primary, Hillary Clinton just made her strongest suggestion yet that the next president may face a terrorist attack - and that she would be the best person to handle it.
 
 
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