memeorandum: The Polls You Won't Hear Much About (Phoenix Woman/Firedoglake)

11:25 PM ET, January 14, 2008

Top Items:

Obama Damps Down Racial Controversy — ABC News' David Wright, Andy Fies, and Sunlen Miller Report: Sen. Barack Obama told ABC News Monday there is nothing in Sen. Hillary Clinton's record that would give him any cause for concern about her in terms of racial politics.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, protein wisdom, Hullabaloo, TalkLeft, Ben Smith's Blogs, The Trail, TIME: Swampland, Tom Watson, Irish Trojan in Tennessee, Booman Tribune and Gateway Pundit

Matt Bai / The Caucus:

The Clintons and History — WASHINGTON — There's an old joke people here in the capital like to tell about Charles E. Schumer, the New York senator, and over the years I'm sure it's been used to describe other politicians, as well: The most dangerous place to stand in Washington …

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, Right Wing Nut House, MSNBC, Blue Crab Boulevard, NY Daily News, God's Politics, Stumper, Balloon Juice, Pandagon, Jack and Jill Politics and Captain's Quarters

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Obama, putting out the fire — Carrie Budoff Brown has some key quotes from an Obama avail this afternoon in Reno, where he tried to put to rest the racially-charged name-calling. … His surrogates and a spokeswoman have, it's worth noting, participated in the recent round of criticism of the Clintons …

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Comments from Left Field, The Democratic Daily, Sisyphus Shrugged, The Page and Buck Naked Politics

Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:

Clinton booed at MLK rally in New York — NEW YORK, N.Y. — Dogged by continuing racial tensions around her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton drew a smattering of boos on Monday when she spoke at a religiously tinged Martin Luther King Jr. rally put together by a union organizing predominantly black security workers.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, New York Sun, Keith Burgess-Jackson, The Trail and michellemalkin.com

Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:

Obama Tries to Stop the ‘Silliness’ — (Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times) — RENO, Nev. - As he campaigned in northern Nevada on Monday, Senator Barack Obama said he was concerned that a heated discussion of racial issues in the presidential campaign could divide the Democratic Party.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Sister Toldjah and Too Sense

CNN:

Bill Clinton compiles ‘list’ of Obama attacks — (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign came out swinging Monday against the latest complaints from her rival, with former President Clinton announcing he has “a list of 80 attacks on Hillary” by Senator Barack Obama's campaign.

Discussion: Horses Mouth, The Swamp and State of the Day

Scott Ott / ScrappleFace:
Obama: It Took Men to Give Women the Vote

Discussion: UrbanGrounds

Frank James / The Swamp:
Clinton camp fires up blacks but not how they hoped

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, protein wisdom, Booman Tribune and The Hill

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama camp slams Clintons over drugs talk

Discussion: Latest Politics, BitsBlog, Spin Cycle and Hotline On Call

Anjeanette Damon / Inside Nevada Politics:

New Poll: Democratic race in Nevada a dead heat — A new poll by the Reno Gazette-Journal shows a neck-and-neck three-way race among Democrats for Saturday's caucus. On the Republican side, U.S. Sen. John McCain has taken his first lead in Nevada of the election season, and Mitt Romney …

Discussion: Pollster.com, The Reaction, Open Left, Las Vegas Sun, The Agonist, The Huffington Post, Washington Wire, The Fix, Daily Kos, MSNBC, Boston Globe, The Caucus, MyDD and CANNONFIRE

USA Today:

USAT/Gallup Poll: McCain jumps to lead; Clinton regains advantage — Both winners in last week's New Hampshire primary now lead in the USA TODAY/Gallup national poll of the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination races. — Sen. John McCain has jumped ahead of the other Republican contenders.

Discussion: Hot Air, Quinnipiac University News …, Captain's Quarters, Los Angeles Times, Stop The ACLU, Pollster.com, TPM Election Central, Classical Values and The Moderate Voice

Phoenix Woman / Firedoglake:
The Polls You Won't Hear Much About

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Daily Kos

David Mark / The Politico:
Clinton holds solid lead in California

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Taegan Goddard's …

Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:

Bothersome Intel on Iran — In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administration's recent National Intelligence Estimate. That NIE, made public Dec. 3, embarrassed the administration …

Discussion: democracyarsenal.org, Hullabaloo, Emptywheel, The Newshoggers, THE CUNNING REALIST, SteveAudio, Wall Street Journal, Think Progress, Cliff Schecter, Corrente, The Carpetbagger Report, Make Them Accountable and RADAMISTO

Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Artificial Intelligence — PRESIDENT BUSH'S CAVALIER DISMISSAL …

Discussion: Think Progress

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Judge To NBC: You Can't Control Your Own Content — A solution in search of a problem found a judge in search of some understanding of the concept of private property and free speech. Both converged in Las Vegas through the efforts of Dennis Kucinich to force his way into the NBC Democratic debate.

Discussion: Political Machine, The Newshoggers, The Discerning Texan and TigerHawk

Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: Kucinich sues NBC over Nevada debate

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, MyDD and TVNewser

Spengler / Asia Times:

Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code — Islam watchers blogged all weekend about news that a secret archive of ancient Islamic texts had surfaced after 60 years of suppression. Andrew Higgins' Wall Street Journal report that the photographic record of Koranic manuscripts …

Discussion: ShrinkWrapped, The Jawa Report, The Belmont Club, Wall Street Journal, Fausta's blog and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Michelle Malkin:

McCain booed in Michigan...twice; Update: Video added — Update: Here's the vid of the booing at the Americans for Prosperity Summit event... Mr. Shamnesty-Short Fuse almost walked off the stage during a campaign event with the AFL-CIO in Michigan. Audience members didn't like his soft-on-illegal immigration blather.

Discussion: Hot Air, CNSNews, Riehl World View, Stop The ACLU and PunditGuy

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Trust Huck into Mich, zinging Mitt

Discussion: TPMmuckraker

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
ROMNEY IN MICHIGAN....Kos is still pushing Democrats to cross …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and The Caucus

Thom Shanker / New York Times:

Iraq Defense Minister Sees Need for U.S. Security Help Until 2018 — FORT MONROE, Va. — The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq's borders from external threat until at least 2018.

Discussion: Greatscat!

Earl Ofari Hutchinson / The Huffington Post:

Obama Needs a History Lesson about Hillary and King — The Obama camp did it again. They manufactured yet another issue out of a non-issue when they pounded Hillary Clinton for supposedly defiling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by minimizing his role in the civil rights struggle.

Discussion: PoliGazette and Too Sense

Michael Duffy / Time:
Race Spells Trouble for the Dems

Discussion: Lance Mannion

Christopher Hitchens / Slate:

The Case Against Hillary Clinton — WHY ON EARTH WOULD WE CHOOSE TO PUT THE CLINTON FAMILY DRAMA AT THE CENTER OF OUR POLITICS AGAIN. — Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, New York Times, Viking Pundit and Riehl World View

Tim B. / Tim Blair:

A VISIT TO THE INFIRMARY — Feeling poorly for some time. Saw a doctor a few weeks ago, who sent me to a specialist, who booked me into hospital for tests. — It's cancer. — Major abdominal surgery next week. If all goes well, the remaining non-cancerous section of me will be home by early-mid February.

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard, Daily Pundit and Bolus

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

The Nightmare For Financial Advisers — Which spectre haunts financial advisers the most? Terrorism? Global unrest? Not even close. According to a survey of over 200 financial advisers taken in December, their biggest worry is that Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election in November:

Aaron Siegel / InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines:
Financial advisers' No. 1 worry: A Democrat in the White House