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4:01 PM ET, January 26, 2008

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John O'Connor / The State:
Signs pointing to record turnout  —  If voters surge, party could share winner's momentum  —  Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout for today's presidential primary, continuing a trend seen in other early-voting states.
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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Polls: Obama Solidifies Lead as Election Day Looms in South Carolina; McCain Holds Narrow Lead Over Romney in Florida; Others Far Back  —  1/23-25  —  1/22-24  —  1/21-23  —  1/20-22  —  Obama  —  41%  —  38%  —  39%  —  43%  —  Clinton  —  26%  —  25%
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Spinning South Carolina, II  —  Clinton puts out a memo from Howard Wolfson this morning that pushes the expectation that she will lose, and includes a reminder that she fought for “each and every vote."  —  There's also a note on the importance of delegates (funny how whoever is losing …
Discussion: TownHall Blog, MyDD and Open Left
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Rules?  The Clintons Don't Need No Stinkin' Rules!  —  The Democratic National Committee stripped Michigan and Florida of its delegates for violating scheduling rules for their primaries.  It took 365 delegates off the table and forced candidates to stop campaigning in the two vital states.
Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
To Truly Win in Carolina, Obama Needs Large Margin  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — When is a win in the South Carolina Democratic primary really a win?  —  For Sen. Barack Obama, anything less than a decisive victory Saturday might lead some political operatives and observers to shrug off a first-place finish as a given.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Surge in Early Balloting Shifts Florida Races  —  BOCA RATON, Fla. — A surge of early voting by Florida Democrats and Republicans has startled officials here and injected additional complexity into the state's presidential primaries on Tuesday.  —  Democratic candidates are not overtly campaigning …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
CNN:   Obama, Edwards have a lot on the line in South Carolina
Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
No problems with machines, weather
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Hillary Clinton: Changing The Rules On Florida And Michigan Delegates?
Los Angeles Times:
Is the right right on the Clintons?  —  Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple.  —  Something strange happened the other day.  All these different people — friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read — kept saying the same thing …
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Questions for the Clintons  —  Charleston, S.C.  —  Joseph P. Riley Jr. has been mayor of this historic and often tense city since the mid-1970s.  He's a Democrat, highly respected and has worked diligently to heal racial wounds that have festered in some cases for hundreds of years.
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
It's no-win for Barack  —  Clintons marginalize him as black candidate … Well, the media finally got the negative, slash-and-burn, “dirty politics” South Carolina primary they've been looking for.  —  They just weren't looking for it from the Democrats.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
He Didn't Give at the Office  —  Remember that picture of Yasser Arafat, blood donor?  —  Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
HE DIDN'T GIVE AT THE OFFICE  —  This week we've seen the news services become pure instruments of terrorist propaganda on behalf of Hamas.  As Noah Pollak and Pajamas Media pointed out, even Time jumped in to lend a hand.  Rest assured that the organs of the mainstream media will not pause …
Discussion: Reuters and Pajamas Media
Mark Steyn / The Corner:   If it doesn't bleed, it still leads
Garry Wills / New York Times:
Two Presidents Are Worse Than One  —  SENATOR Hillary Clinton has based her campaign on experience — 35 years of it by her count.  That must include her eight years in the White House.  —  Some may debate whether those years count as executive experience.
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Billary's Adventures in Primaryland
Washington Post:
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bush presses Congress on FISA
Discussion: AMERICAblog
philly.com:
Nude Buttocks May Cost ABC $1.4 Million  —  WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue.  —  The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower.
New York Times:
Société Générale's Sales May Have Incited Market Plunge  —  PARIS — As panic swept European markets on Monday, word spread that a big hedge fund was in trouble and dumping stocks.  —  Someone was selling, all right — Société Générale.
 
 
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