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6:00 AM ET, August 13, 2007

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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Tommy Thompson Is First Victim of Iowa Straw Poll  —  Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson dropped out of the race for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination tonight, a day after he finished a disappointing sixth in the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa.  —  "I have no regrets about running," Thompson said in a statement released by his campaign.
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Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Tommy Thompson drops out of GOP race  —  Former Gov. Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, who said he would drop out of the Republican race for president if he didn't come in first or second in Saturday's Ames Straw Poll, finished sixth of 11 candidates.  And minutes ago he made it official.
Mark Preston / CNN:
Tommy Thompson abandons presidential bid  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is abandoning his presidential bid, his campaign announced Sunday night.  —  Thompson, who also served in the Bush Cabinet, did not meet the expectations he set for himself in the Ames Republican straw poll held Saturday.
Discussion: The Debate Link
Washington Post:
Iowans Feel Snubbed, but Will It Matter?  —  If there was one thing that was plain at Saturday's gathering of Republicans in Ames, Iowa, it was this: They don't like to be dissed.  —  The GOP throng groaned and booed at any mention of the no-shows — former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Associated Press:
Tommy Thompson drops presidential bid  —  MILWAUKEE - Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson said Sunday he is dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination after finishing sixth in an Iowa straw poll.  —  "I have no regrets about running," he said in a statement released Sunday evening by his campaign.
Discussion: BlueHerald
John Podhoretz / The Corner:
Truth-Telling: Anybody Who Says Ames Matters Is Smoking Something Illegal
Discussion: Right Wing News and Israel Matzav
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Yes, the Fund-Raising Records Fell, Just Not as Far  —  For Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, it was a monumental achievement: Her campaign announced in April that she had raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, more than any other presidential candidate.
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Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Tough talk drives Clinton effort
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Firedoglake
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
The GOP YouTube Debate Is Back On  —  This just in: The Republican CNN/YouTube debate, in limbo for the past few weeks, is on again.  —  But Mitt Romney, who won Saturday's Iowa straw poll and has criticized the debate format, has yet to commit to the Nov. 28 event.
Discussion: Wizbang and Donklephant
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New York Times:
Republicans' Debated YouTube Forum Is Back On  —  It looks as if the Republican presidential candidates, at least most of them, will be participating in a YouTube debate after all.  The forum is now set for Nov. 28, the Wednesday after Thanksgiving.  —  The campaigns of Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Discussion: Threat Level and TVNewser
Wall Street Journal:
Karl Rove to Resign At the End of August  —  Karl Rove, President Bush's longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, he said in an interview with Paul Gigot, editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page.
Agence France Presse:
Hardline group rallies for world Islamic rule  —  More than 70,000 members of a hardline Muslim group held a rally in Indonesia that heard calls for a caliphate — or Islamic rule — to govern the world.  —  The supporters of the Hizbut Tahrir group filled up most of an 80,000-seat sports stadium …
Discussion: Riehl World View
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
SHARIA NOW!  —  Earlier today, 70,000 to 80,000 Indonesians rallied …
Discussion: Take Our Country Back
Gateway Pundit:
Massive Hizb ut-Tahrir Caliphate Conference Opens in Jakarta- 100,000 Expected
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
For a Joke-Telling Candidate, a Second-Place Finish  —  "I can't buy you — I don't have the money," Mike Huckabee, the Arkansas Republican seeking the presidency, told Republicans at the Iowa Straw Poll this weekend.  He offered a mock frown.  —  "I can't even rent you," he said.
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
In Fundraising's Murky Corners  —  Candidates See Little of Millions Collected by Linda Chavez's Family  —  Linda Chavez rose to prominence in the 1980s as a tart-tongued Reagan administration official and candidate for the Senate, eventually becoming a well-known Latina voice on social issues …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
Italy probe unearths huge Iraq arms deal  —  PERUGIA, Italy - In a hidden corner of Rome's busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler's checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs.  What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue to something bigger.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
OBJECTIVITY....Mark Kleiman comments on the convention of objectivity in the reporting of straight news: … In theory, everyone agrees with this.  The problem is, I haven't yet come across a single person who's proposed a workable solution.  Who gets to decide whether an issue is still debatable?
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Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
"Objectivity" in political reporting
Discussion: Pantagraph
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
If Thompson Runs for President, Don't Look for Him in Reruns  —  Former Senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee segued neatly from Congress back to an acting career in 2002, when he joined the cast of NBC's long-running crime series "Law & Order."  —  Now that Mr. Thompson seems poised …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Harold Ford vs. Kos — the PJM remix  —  Here's the long edit I promised you.  Thanks to PJM producer Andrew Marcus for lending me a snippet of his interview with the chairman to punctuate Ford's obsequious gladhanding of someone who spent last weekend sneering at the "con job" …
Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
The LAT had an interesting item today, speculating about whether presidential candidate Fred Thompson will follow Senate candidate Thompson's style, and campaign in his favorite prop. … As the piece explained, Thompson hopped in an old red pickup and won voters over with his folksy charm, accentuated by the prop.
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Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Thompson's red truck parked, for now
 
 
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