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9:40 AM ET, January 14, 2008

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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Race and Gender Are Issues in Tense Day for Democrats  —  LAS VEGAS — After staying on the sidelines in the first year of the campaign, race and to a lesser extent gender have burst into the forefront of the Democratic presidential contest, thrusting Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
PRESIDENTIAL TRIAL HEATS: WHO'S WEAKEST FOR G.O.P?  —  This weekend, CNN released results of general election trial heats, pitting each of the four leading Republican candidates for President against both of the leading Democrats.  —  The unmistakable message from this national exercise …
New York Times:
Fluidity in G.O.P. Race; Democrats Eye Electability  —  WASHINGTON — Republican voters have sharply altered their views of the party's presidential candidates following the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Senator John McCain, once widely written off, now viewed more favorably …
John Whitesides / Reuters:
McCain leads Romney in Michigan  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain holds a slim lead on rival Mitt Romney in Michigan one day before the state's hotly contested presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Monday.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
National Polls: Clinton And McCain Lead But More Contradictory Than Ever
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Reaction
CBS News:
CBS Poll: McCain Surges To National Lead
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and TalkLeft
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race  —  Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary.  [See the full memo here.]
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NOT BEAN BAG  —  We seem to be at the point where there are now two credible possibilities.  One is that the Clinton campaign is intentionally pursuing a strategy of using surrogates to hit Obama with racially-charged language or with charges that while not directly tied to race nonetheless play to stereotypes about black men.
William Kristol / New York Times:
The Democrats' Fairy Tale  —  “Give me a break.  This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."  Thus spoke Bill Clinton last Monday night, exasperated by Barack Obama's claim that he — unlike Hillary Clinton — had been consistently right (or wrong, depending on your point of view) on the Iraq war.
Michelle Malkin:
What Hillary supporter Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CLINTON, OBAMA, IRAQ.
Discussion: TalkLeft
J. Patrick Coolican / Las Vegas Sun:
Obama goes gloves off, head-on  —  He discusses how race has flared up in the campaign, a suit over voting on the Strip  —  In a Sun interview Sunday, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama addressed the suddenly front-and-center issue of race in his fight with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Responding to Recession  —  Suddenly, the economic consensus seems to be that the implosion of the housing market will indeed push the U.S. economy into a recession, and that it's quite possible that we're already in one.  As a result, over the next few weeks we'll be hearing a lot about plans for economic stimulus.
Discussion: BartBlog
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Michelle Obama Enters the Race Fray  —  Michelle Obama spoke today in South Carolina at the Trumpet Awards, an event celebrating black achievement.  After commenting on Bill Clinton's fairy tale remark she said: … More...  She then wove the women issue into her comments:
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Mark Hornbeck / Detroit News:
Former Gov. Milliken supports McCain's bid  —  Moderate, once George Romney's lieutenant governor, calls his son a 'disappointment.'  —  Michigan's most famous Republican moderate, former Gov. William G. Milliken, has endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain in Tuesday's presidential primary …
Discussion: Redstate
Aaron Siegel / InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines:
Financial advisers' No. 1 worry: A Democrat in the White House  —  Nothing worries financial advisers more than the prospect of a Democrat's being elected president in November, according to a quarterly poll by Brinker Capital Inc.  —  The fourth-quarter edition of the Brinker Barometer …
Discussion: Don Surber and TigerHawk
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
AMICUS BRIEFS FOR PETITIONER IN D.C. V. HELLER:  —  On Friday, 20 amicus briefs were filed in support of the District of Columbia government, in the case challenging the District's ban on handguns and on functional firearms.  The briefs are here.  —  Most notably, the Solicitor General asked …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
In Defending War Vote, Clintons Contradict Record  —  WASHINGTON — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have repeatedly invoked the name of Senator Chuck Hagel, a longtime critic of the Iraq war, as they defend Mrs. Clinton's 2002 vote to authorize the war.  —  In interviews and at a recent campaign event …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Solomon Moore / New York Times:
Ex-Baathists Get a Break.  Or Do They?  —  BAGHDAD — A day after the Iraqi Parliament passed legislation billed as the first significant political step forward in Iraq after months of deadlock, there were troubling questions — and troubling silences — about the measure's actual effects.
Discussion: toohotfortnr
Charlie Gasparino / CNBC.com:
Citi Could Write Down Up to $24 Billion  —  Citigroup could write down as much as $24 billion due to subprime and credit-related losses, CNBC has learned.  In addition, the company could lay off as many as 20,000 workers as part of a comprehensive plan to slash costs and raise capital.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
 
 
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Armando Iannucci / Observer:
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