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11:00 AM ET, October 30, 2007

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The Influence Peddler:
Is Hillary a Sure Loser?  —  Jim Geraghty has a significant post on Hillary's floor and ceiling: … The actual Rasmussen release on this point is here: … Hillary has nearly universal name identification.  Nearly every American has an opinion of her.  And regardless of what Americans …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Poll Matching Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul Tells A Lot About Clinton, Little About Paul  —  A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey featuring a match-up between Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul highlights one of the perils that comes from overanalyzing poll results between candidates with different levels of name recognition.
main.uab.edu:
"Ron Paul Spammers" Targeted by UAB Spam Team
Discussion: Liberty Pundit and Don Surber
National Review:
The Cast-Iron Low Ceiling and High Floor of Hillary Clinton
Ezra Klein:
Against Giuliani  —  "Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite [Osama bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] to the inauguration or the inaugural ball," says Rudy Giuliani.  Andrew's right.  This guy is out of his goddamn mind.  —  You know, a few years ago …
Discussion: Lean Left
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Meet Giuliani's New Brain on Foreign Policy
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Power Line
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama taking off the gloves
Discussion: Washington Wire, MSNBC and The Trail
Sean O'Neill / Times of London:
Lessons in hate found at leading mosques  —  Books calling for the beheading of lapsed Muslims, ordering women to remain indoors and forbidding interfaith marriage are being sold inside some of Britain's leading mosques, according to research seen by The Times.
Discussion: Harry's Place and USS Neverdock
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Toby Helm / Telegraph:
'Hate literature easily found at UK mosques'  —  Extremist literature that encourages hatred of gays, Christians and Jews can be easily found at many of Britain's mosques, according to a new survey.  —  Researchers for the centre-Right think tank Policy Exchange claims it found the literature …
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
New Congress at war over everything  —  In a closed-door meeting before the last vote on the children's health care bill, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer appealed for the support of about 30 wavering Republican lawmakers.  What he got instead was a tongue-lashing, participants said.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Weary, Wary Lawmakers See Compromise as Way Forward
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Iraqi Dam Seen In Danger of Deadly Collapse  —  AT THE MOSUL DAM, Iraq — The largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing thousands of people and flooding two of the largest cities in the country …
John R. Wilke / Wall Street Journal:
How Lawmaker Rebuilt Hometown on Earmarks  —  Johnstown Gets Billions  —  With Power Broker's Aid;  —  FBI Questions a Contract  —  JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — If John Murtha were a businessman, he'd be the biggest employer in this town.  —  The powerful U.S. congressman has used his clout …
NY Daily News:
Sharpton chides Cheney over Confederate flag flap  —  Nobody got shot, but Vice President Cheney still fired up controversy Monday when he went hunting at a private club that hangs the Confederate flag.  —  A Daily News photographer captured the 3-by-5 foot Dixie flag affixed to a door …
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Austin Fenner / New York Post:
V.P.'S HUNTING GEAR
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Happiness Gap  —  Some elections are defined by the gap between the rich and the poor.  Others are defined by the gap between the left and the right.  But this election will be shaped by the gap within individual voters themselves — the gap between their private optimism and their public gloom.
John Solomon / Washington Post:
Giuliani Still Working at Firm He Promised to Leave  —  Ten months into his presidential bid, Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work part time at the security consulting firm he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his pursuit of the Republican nomination.
Discussion: MSNBC, Cliff Schecter and The Blotter
David Johnston / New York Times:
Immunity Deals Offered to Blackwater Guards  —  State Department investigators offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity during an inquiry into last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad — a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Nature or Nurture?  Well, Smart Guy?  —  The forum at the usually sober American Enterprise Institute yesterday started off with a bit of Borscht Belt humor.  AEI adjunct fellow Jon Entine displayed a cartoon of a tablet-carrying Moses looking incredulously toward the heavens.
Discussion: The Plank
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion  —  Some Formerly Classified Figures Are to Be Disclosed Today  —  The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year cost more than $40 billion …
 
 
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Giuliani snares Allbaugh
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Associated Press:
'Don't Tase me, bro' student won't be charged
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State report says Texas has too many reports
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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Dogs shoot man on hunting trip
Zogby:
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Janny Scott / New York Times:
Memories of Obama in New York Differ
Discussion: MSNBC, TIME and Reuters
Kyle Drennen / NewsBusters.org:
'60 Minutes:' U.S. Military as Bad as Taliban
Discussion: Right Wing News
Telegraph:
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Condé Nast Portfolio Magazine:
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There Is No Crisis