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6:40 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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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 …
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Clinton Camp Memo on South Carolina, Florida, Feb. 5 States  —  To: Interested Parties  —  From: Howard Wolfson, Communications Director Re: South Carolina, Florida, and February 5  —  The Obama campaign has been so confident of winning South Carolina that six months ago they flatly predicted victory in the Palmetto State.
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 …
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%
Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
To Truly Win in Carolina, Obama Needs Large Margin
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE PROBLEM WITH BILL 2.0  —  I've been trying for several days now to sort out my reactions to the increasingly bitter turn of the Democratic nomination race.  So let share with you my thoughts about where we are.  —  As I told you at the time, I thought most of the charges that the Clintons …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
Billary's Adventures in Primaryland
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
Discussion: Reuters and Pajamas Media
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
McCain: Romney favored Iraq withdrawal  —  ORLANDO, Fla. - John McCain accused Mitt Romney of wanting to set a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, drawing immediate protest from his Republican presidential rival who said: “That's simply wrong and it's dishonest, and he should apologize.”
The Politico:
E-mail smear taxes Obama campaign  —  COLUMBIA, SC -For over a year, largely out of the media glare, Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been fighting a determined, low-intensity conflict against the viral e-mail that forwards the myth that Obama is a crypto-Muslim Manchurian candidate.
Discussion: protein wisdom
CBS News:
“Clean” Movie Maven Arrested For Teen Sex  —  Utah Man Who Sold R-Rated Films Shorn Of Skin Arrested For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girls  —  (CBS) A Utah retailer of family-friendly tapes and DVDs - Hollywood films with the “dirty parts” cut out of them - has been arrested for trading sex with two 14-year-old girls.
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
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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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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