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12:40 PM ET, October 30, 2007

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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.
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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 …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
The Tonight Show: Heeeere's.... Ron Paul
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
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 …
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Mike Faher / The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA:
Career Army man to challenge Murtha  —  After nearly three decades in the military, William T. Russell's latest mission has brought him to Johnstown.  —  The career Army man, just two years short of retirement, has left the service and moved to the Flood City in order to mount a political campaign …
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Meet Giuliani's New Brain on Foreign Policy
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Power Line
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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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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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.
Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Fineman: What Obama must do in the debate  —  WASHINGTON - As Sen. Barack Obama prepared for Tuesday night's crucial NBC debate in Philadelphia, his high command back in Chicago was watching a lot of old Clinton videotape — not of Hillary Clinton, but of Bill, and not of Bill as president …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Podhoretz v. Zakaria  —  As I've argued in other contexts today, Iran is the issue facing the country today.  Some readers have warned me off this formulation, claiming I'm buying into the right-wing 'frame' by doing so.  Nonsense.  As long as George Bush is commander-in-chief of the US military …
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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 …
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Bush: 'That's How I Work'  —  In the wake of last month's shooting of 17 civilians by Blackwater gunmen in Baghdad, the Bush administration is finally acknowledging — more than four years late — that private security contractors in Iraq should operate under the law.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Cliff Schecter
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Terry Frieden / CNN:
Official: Blackwater not offered immunity
Discussion: On Deadline
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
(Now w/More Stupidity) Unprecedented Stupidity at HuffPo  —  Update: Readers are emailing more gems...click on the extended entry at the bottom of the piece to read them.  —  The Huffington Post routinely allows its authors to write about subjects with which they are completely unfamiliar …
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
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.
 
 
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Giuliani snares Allbaugh
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Discussion: Reason Magazine
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2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion
John Solomon / Washington Post:
Giuliani Still Working at Firm He Promised to Leave
Agence France Presse:
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Janny Scott / New York Times:
Memories of Obama in New York Differ
Discussion: The Swamp, Reuters, MSNBC and TIME
Telegraph:
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