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9:40 AM ET, January 28, 2008

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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton's Camp Seeks Gentler Role for Ex-President  —  Democrats inside and outside the Clinton campaign on Sunday debated and in some cases bemoaned the degree to which former President Bill Clinton's criticism of Senator Barack Obama last week had inflicted lasting damage on his wife's presidential candidacy.
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Gains, But Still Lags In Big States  —  Barack Obama's overwhelming weekend victory in South Carolina's Democratic primary gives him new momentum in the run-up to the near-national nominating contest a week from tomorrow, known as Super Tuesday.  —  But Mr. Obama heads into the 22-state showdown as the underdog.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Team Obama Is Courting Everybody But the Press  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. — When reporters filed onto Barack Obama's press plane after his acrimonious debate with Hillary Rodham Clinton last week, one thing was noticeably missing amid the wine and snacks on the Boeing 737.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Lessons of 1992  —  It's starting to feel a bit like 1992 again.  A Bush is in the White House, the economy is a mess, and there's a candidate who, in the view of a number of observers, is running on a message of hope, of moving past partisan differences, that resembles Bill Clinton's campaign 16 years ago.
William Kristol / New York Times:
Desperate Husband  —  In the run-up to Saturday's South Carolina …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
A Margin That Will Be Hard To Marginalize
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain's one-two Florida punch  —  TAMPA — Two well-timed endorsements could make the difference for Sen. John McCain prior to Tuesday's pivotal Florida primary.  —  With Florida Sen. Mel Martinez and Gov. Charlie Crist throwing him their support, the Arizona senator might be able …
Discussion: The Swamp, Commentary, The Buzz and Zogby
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John Whitesides / Reuters:   McCain edges into Florida lead: poll
USA Today:   Rudy: Demise rumors are ‘premature’
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
BREAKING: Hillary Clinton To Vote “No” On Cloture Tomorrow UPDATE: Barack Obama Will Be There Too  —  According to the Clinton campaign, Hillary Clinton will be in the Senate tomorrow to vote “no” on cloture on the Intel version of the FISA bill.  The vote is scheduled to take place at 4:30 pm tomorrow.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Economy, War To Dominate State of Union  —  Bush's Challenge May Be Getting People to Listen  —  For years, President Bush and his advisers expressed frustration that the White House received little credit for the nation's strong economic performance because of public discontent about the Iraq war.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Echo of First Bush: Good Economy Turns Sour  —  WASHINGTON — Will George W. Bush be remembered as the president who lost the economy while trying to win a war?  —  Mr. Bush has spent years presiding over an economic climate of growth that would be the envy of most presidents.
Jacob Weisberg / New York Times:
The Bush Who Got Away
Discussion: Corrente
Washington Post:
Reaching for a Place in History
Discussion: Balkinization and Sadly, No!
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Strategizing for Super Tuesday  —  Candidates Refine Plans As They Vie for Delegates In Coast-to-Coast Contest  —  For weeks, presidential candidates have waged battle one state at a time.  But now the race enters a new phase, with candidates delving into the complex coast-to-coast contest known …
Discussion: Washington Post and MSNBC
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Races Entering Complex Phase Over Delegates  —  MIAMI — The presidential campaign is entering a new phase as Democratic and Republican candidates move beyond state-by-state competition and into a potentially protracted scramble for delegates Congressional district by Congressional district.
Discussion: Balkinization
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
In Open Nomination, ‘Superdelegates’ May Hold Key to Victory
Discussion: 2008 Democratic …
Nitya / Political Radar:
Author Toni Morrison to Endorse Obama  —  ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison — who famously declared Bill Clinton to be the nation's “first black president” — is endorsing Barack Obama for president today, an Obama campaign source tells ABC News.
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Rich Lowry / The Corner:
McCain's Dishonest Attack  —  As I've said before, McCain deserves a large part of the credit for the surge—he pushed to have it implemented both in his public advocacy and his behind-the-scenes lobbying of the Bush administration, and he has been its foremost defender.
Wall Street Journal:
12-Step Earmark Withdrawal  —  As every reformed addict knows, the road to recovery is long and hard.  So it is for Republicans who became addicted to spending “earmarks” while running Congress, lost their majority in large part because of it, and are now struggling with mixed results to dry out.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
 
 
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Redstate:
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Video: McCain asked about Juan Hernandez at Florida campaign event
Ezra Klein / Los Angeles Times:
Unity isn't all it's cracked up to be
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Presidential Candidate to Make Springfield Stop
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Iraqi troops poised to strike al-Qaida
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Demography and the Democratic Race
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The Enemy of Their Enemy  —  From a purely rational perspective …
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Obama for the Democrats  —  After seven years of George Bush's …
 

 
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
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