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12:40 PM ET, October 29, 2007

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Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Polls don't reflect Obama's star power  —  The Democrat creates a stir wherever he goes, but runs far behind Clinton nationally.  Some observers are puzzled; others say he's too gentle.  —  DES MOINES — Hutton Street, a modest, racially mixed working-class neighborhood on the city's east side …
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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Huckabee Surges, Edwards Fades  —  The latest still photo from the slow motion, inter-party electoral horse race known as Iowa is in — and it looks like John Edwards is losing steam on the Democratic side while Mike Huckabee is charging at the GOP frontrunners.
University of Iowa News Services:
UI Hawkeye Poll: Huckabee gaining; Clinton and Obama battling for top spot  —  Mitt Romney continues to hold a strong lead in Iowa among candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination.  But Mike Huckabee's Iowa numbers — buoyed, perhaps, by growing support among Evangelical Christians …
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
NEW IA POLL TOMORROW....BUT A CAUTION
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and The Page
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo says he's leaving Congress  —  Even if he loses his long-shot bid for the White House, Rep. Tom Tancredo will be leaving the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of 2008.  —  Tancredo, 61 , waited until after the Colorado Rockies' last out of the World Series on Sunday night …
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CNN Political Ticker:
Tancredo puts all his chips on White House bid
Discussion: The Politico
Daily Mail:
Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS  —  Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.  —  And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   The Rich Get Health Care
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Obama's Gospel Concert Tour  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. _ At Barack Obama's gospel concert here last night, more than 2,000 black evangelicals were singing, waving their hands and cramming the aisles _ most enthusiastically when Donnie McClurkin, the superstar black gospel singer …
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Obama campaign spokesman blasts gays at Gospel concert; white preacher …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: G.I. Joe was just a toy, wasn't he?  —  Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line, Joe's — well, "G.I." — identity needs to be replaced by membership in an "international force based in Brussels."
Studs Terkel / New York Times:
The Wiretap This Time  —  EARLIER this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House agreed to allow the executive branch to conduct dragnet interceptions of the electronic communications of people in the United States.  They also agreed to "immunize" American telephone companies …
Rick Jacobs / The Huffington Post:
Ann Coulter: On the Gay Circuit in West Hollywood  —  We had dinner last night at Murano, a new West Hollywood restaurant, owned by gay circuit party promoter Jeffrey Sanker, and lesbian night club owners Robin Gans and Sandy Sachs.  It's a visually stunning space, straight lines …
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All - and Face Charges if Necessary - to Any Major Television Network That Will Let Her  —  Attention CBS 60 Minutes: we've got a huge scoop for you.  If you want it.  —  Remember the exclusive story you aired on Sibel Edmonds …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fearing Fear Itself  —  In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror."  But that was then.  —  Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance …
Opinion Journal:
Torturing Mukasey  —  The judge becomes a pawn in the politics of interrogation.  —  Just when you thought someone might be confirmed in Washington without a partisan fight, Senate Democrats are suggesting they may not approve Michael Mukasey as Attorney General after all.
Discussion: The American Street
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Malcolm Nance / SWJ Blog:   Waterboarding is Torture... Period
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
How America must handle the falling dollar  —  The falling dollar generates anxiety almost everywhere.  Americans and those dependent on American growth worry about the proverbial "hard landing" as inflation and interest rates rise with a weakening dollar, causing asset prices and output to fall.
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Walter Shapiro / Salon:
Which Republican candidate is más macho?  —  In Iowa, McCain, Thompson and Giuliani vie for the title of Most Manly, in styles that range from low-key to aw-shucks to making glib jokes about torture.  —  Salon photo composite of Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson.
Discussion: MSNBC and The Politico
Bluto / The Dread Pundit Bluto:
Full Text of Email Reveals Greenwald Mischaracterizations  —  Welcome, fellow minions of the lgf New World Odor  —  Glenn Greenwald, as he had promised in his post at Salon, has forwarded the email he says he received from Colonel Steven A. Boylan, Public Affairs Officer for General Petraeus.
Hillary Clinton / Journalism.org:
THE INVISIBLE PRIMARY—INVISIBLE NO LONGER  —  A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign  —  In the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, the media had already winnowed the race to mostly five candidates and offered Americans relatively little information …
New Hampshire Union Leader:
Gregg to join Romney at State House  —  CONCORD - U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg is endorsing Mitt Romney today as the former Massachusetts governor files as an official candidate in the New Hampshire presidential primary.  —  Sen. Judd Gregg says he "never thought I'd endorse a governor of Massachusetts …
Discussion: Washington Wire
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Gregg to endorse Romney
 
 
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Matt / Think Progress:
Safire: Romney should make Petraeus his VP.
Discussion: MSNBC and Eschaton
Chris Colin / San Francisco Chronicle:
ON THE JOB  —  The fog of work: What happened to Fremont mechanic Hamid Sayadi after 9/11?
Discussion: TalkLeft
Ynetnews:
Qureia warns Annapolis failure will lead to war
Discussion: Yourish.com and Israel Matzav
Edward Rothstein / New York Times:
Is Dumbledore Gay? Depends on Definitions of 'Is' and 'Gay'
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
First Read: Democrats targeting McConnell?
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
'Fairness' Is Foul  —  Liberals vs. the First Amendment.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Colbert Nation Quickly Colonizes Facebook
Discussion: techPresident
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court to rule on Exxon Valdez verdict
Discussion: PointOfLaw Forum
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Clinton, Giuliani top picks for costumes
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Huckabee stirs up third-party fear
James Carroll / Boston Globe:
Giuliani's iron fist
Discussion: Democrats.com and TalkLeft
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
U.S. Guns Behind Cartel Killings in Mexico
New York Times:
Trash Talking World War III
Discussion: cab drollery and Norwegianity
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Laura Bush accuses Dems of demagoguery on SCHIP
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.C.C. Set to End Sole Cable Deals for Apartments
Discussion: The Swamp and Rook's Rant
G'Kar / Obsidian Wings:
In Defense of Beauchamp  —  I stayed away from the entire Beauchamp affair.
 

 
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