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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House? — DERRY, N.H. — When I walked into the office Monday, people were clustering around a computer to watch what they thought they would never see: Hillary Clinton with the unmistakable look of tears in her eyes. — A woman gazing at the screen was grimacing, saying it was bad.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Media Analysis: The “Tweety Effect” Runs Rampant — As if an entire week's worth of Pundits Gone Wild idiocy weren't enough, this morning's Cuppa Joe on MSNBC sent me right over the edge. My own transcript here: … What is wrong with Chris Matthews? With all of these media people?
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
MoDo On Clinton — She gets the core narcissism at the heart of the Clinton machine: … My fear is that if you merely wound her candidacy, you are in danger. The Clinton machine is now poised to pull every partisan lever and deploy every cheap tactic: the gender card, the elderly card …
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Buck Naked Politics
Gary Langer / The Numbers:
New Hampshire's Polling Fiasco — There will be a serious, critical look at the final pre-election polls in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire; that is essential. It is simply unprecedented for so many polls to have been so wrong. We need to know why.
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
How Hillary Did It — Theories on a turnabout ... and what happens next. — The results of the New Hampshire primary help explain why politics is so fascinating for those of us who cover it, even though we all look more than faintly ridiculous right now.
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Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Comment Central, Digital Rules, NewsBusters.org, The Texas Blue and The Politico
Will / Attytood:
Is “Bradley effect” behind the Clinton surge?
Is “Bradley effect” behind the Clinton surge?
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Time, Hullabaloo, Liberal Values, The Daily Dish, The Moderate Voice, Sister Toldjah, Right Wing News and Macsmind
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney drops TV ads in key states — Mitt Romney hasn't extended his television presence into next week in South Carolina and Florida, an aide confirms. — Romney has been on TV for months in both, owning the airwaves long before his GOP rivals purchased their first spots.
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Marc Ambinder, Hot Air, BobKrumm.com, DownWithTyranny!, Riehl World View and race42008.com
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Paul Begala / The Huffington Post:
Fox News: We Report — Even if We Know It's False — I've been dealing with the media and politics for 25 years, but I've never had a more surrealistic day than January 8. Several times that day Fox News reported that I was joining Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
One Day After Saying He'll “Never Underestimate Hillary Clinton Again,” Chris Matthews Says She's Only A Presidential Candidate Because Bill “Messed Around" — January 9, 2008 — 9:36 AM EST // link // — Normally Chris Matthews isn't worth the bother, because he serves up so much non-stop clowning …
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TalkLeft, The Politico, Spin Cycle, Wonkette, Taylor Marsh, The XX Factor, Shakespeare's Sister, Cliff Schecter, The Democratic Daily and Rising Hegemon
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Voter ID Law — Indiana Law Requires Voters to Show Identification at Polls — A lawyer representing Democrats seeking to overturn Indiana's voter identification law faced tough questioning from Supreme Court justices this morning, with Chief Justice John …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Commentary: The partisan elephant unnoticed in the room
Commentary: The partisan elephant unnoticed in the room
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Mahjoun / Drunkard's Lamppost:
Diebold and New Hampshire — At the completion of the New Hampshire primaries, certain elements are are claiming an “astonishing” discrepancy between the results tallied by hand and those tallied by Diebold machines. Naturally reddit jumped on the bandwagon as fast as possible.
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Lauren Effron / Political Radar:
Obama Endorsed by Culinary Workers Union — ABC News' Teddy Davis and Sunlen Miller Report: Despite losing Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Sen. Barack Obama secured the endorsement of the Culinary Workers union. — The endorsement of the 60,000-member Culinary Workers union is seen …
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Associated Press, The Caucus, Open Left, Matthew Yglesias, D-Day, MyDD and Oliver Willis
Michael J. Totten:
The Rings on Zarqawi's Finger — “I am a ring on your finger." — Al Qaeda in Iraq member Abu Anas to Abu Musab Al Zarqawi — Since Abu Musab Al Zarqawi formed the Al Qaeda in Iraq franchise, the terrorist group that destroyed the World Trade Center has fought American soldiers …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
With Echoes of Clinton '92, Another ‘Comeback Kid’ — New Hampshire proved to be the political firewall that the Clinton campaign long had hoped for. Just as New Hampshire voters saved Bill Clinton's candidacy 16 years ago, they revived Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's faltering presidential campaign Tuesday night.
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New Hampshire Union Leader, Salon, Los Angeles Times, TV Decoder, The Caucus, Time, The Swamp and MSNBC
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Lou Dobbs / CNN:
Dobbs: Pundits take one in the teeth — Lou Dobbs' commentary appears weekly on CNN.com. — NEW YORK (CNN) — Many of our political savants and pundits took one in the teeth last night. I couldn't be happier about last night's surprising results, and not because I favor one candidate or another.
Atrios / Eschaton:
Clinton — The Great Orange Satan: … I don't know if reaction to the media treatment of Clinton had anything to do with voter choices yesterday, but I certainly know people in real life who a) don't want Clinton to win and b) are tempted to vote for her every time they're exposed …
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
GOP officials urging embattled Calif. Rep. Doolittle not to seek reele — As speculation mounts about his future, Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) is being urged by friends and colleagues not to seek reelection. — Republican operatives fear that if Doolittle does not retire at the end …