memeorandum: November 14, 2007 - Giuliani Catches Clinton In Ohio, Quinnipiac … (Quinnipiac University News and Events)

10:45 AM ET, November 14, 2007

Top Items:

GOP Primary Story Stars a Democratic Antagonist — They mock her proposals, utter her name with a sneer and win standing ovations by ridiculing her ideas as un-American, even socialistic. She has become the one thing the Republican candidates for president can agree on. — Hillary Clinton.

Discussion: The Mahablog and Bark Bark Woof Woof

Quinnipiac University News and Events:

November 14, 2007 - Giuliani Catches Clinton In Ohio, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Strickland On Ticket Won't Help Dems — Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton remain virtually deadlocked with 44 percent for the Democrat and 43 percent for the Republican in the Ohio presidential race.

Discussion: The Daily Politics, TIME and National Review

CBS News:

Poll: Top Democrats Deadlocked In Iowa — Huckabee Catching Up To Romney Among Hawkeye State Republicans — (CBS) Democrats and Republicans are both headed toward heated showdowns in Iowa, where, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, Hillary Clinton holds a statistically insignificant lead …

Discussion: The Opinionator, The Newshoggers, New York Times, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, The Page, Macsmind, Scared Monkeys, BitsBlog, MyDD, skippy the bush kangaroo, Pollster.com, Truthdig and The New Republic

The Atlantic Online:
CBS, New York Times Polls Of Iowa And New Hampshire

Discussion: Real Clear Politics, Reason Magazine, Ezra Klein and Eunomia

Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Grassley plans no caucus endorsement

Discussion: The Caucus

The Hill:

Senate Dem leaders float plan for forced filibuster — Senate Democrats might force Republicans to wage a filibuster if the GOP wants to block the latest Iraq withdrawal bill, aides and senators said Tuesday. — That could set the stage for a dramatic end-of-the-year partisan showdown …

Discussion: Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, The Reaction, Wake up America, Betsy's Page, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, CNN Political Ticker, The American Street and Dr. Sanity

New York Times:

F.B.I. Says Guards Killed 14 Iraqis Without Cause — Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, Pottersville, Kiko's House, On Deadline and The RBC

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Clinton pours cash into S.C. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has more than tripled her campaign spending in South Carolina, taking aggressive action in a state political experts call a "must-win" for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) because of its high percentage of black voters.

Discussion: MSNBC, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, The Caucus and MyDD

Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Is Clinton campaign too scripted?

Discussion: The Swamp

Frank James / The Swamp:
Swamp Gas, November 14, 2007

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker

Stephanie Strom / New York Times:

Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar — In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy. But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003 …

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, michellemalkin.com, The Garlic, Political Machine, Weasel Zippers, Jon Swift, Truthdig, Neptunus Lex, Gateway Pundit and The American Street

Kos / Daily Kos:

Newsweek — Remember that big announcement I promised earlier? Well, it's now official. … Yeah, there's a lot of heads exploding in wingnutlandia today over this bit of news. But Newsweek is "balancing" me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Huffington Post, Think Progress, The Huffington Post, UrbanGrounds, Beltway Blogroll, All Spin Zone, Gateway Pundit, Power Line, Death, TalkLeft, skippy the bush kangaroo, Confederate Yankee and Weasel Zippers

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: Kos To Pen For Newsweek

Danny Hakim / New York Times:

Spitzer Dropping His License Plan — Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy. — The governor, who is to announce the move formally on Wednesday …

Kenneth Lovett / New York Post:
OUT-OF-GAS ELIOT PUTTING THE BRAKES ON LICENSE PLAN

Discussion: On Deadline, City Room and michellemalkin.com

Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:

Spitzer's Christmas Tax Surprise — Aims To Collect Levies on Sales Over Internet — New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com will find an 8.375% surprise at the virtual cash register, courtesy of Governor Spitzer, who is moving aggressively to collect Internet sales taxes that have gone widely unenforced.

Discussion: Associated Press, City Room, Maggie's Farm, The Daily Politics, Hot Air and Blue Crab Boulevard

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Should Hillary Pretend to Be a Flight Attendant? — In 2005, a year after Ellie Grossman, a doctor, met Ray Fisman, a professor, on a blind date, she was talking to her grandmother about her guy. — "Never let a man think you're smarter," her grandmother advised. "Men don't like that."

Discussion: Whiskey Fire, NewsBusters.org, Connecting.the.Dots and Lawyers, Guns and Money

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

VOTER ID....The State of Indiana has the most stringent voter ID laws in the country. Democrats are always griping about this, and have even gone so far as to challenge Indiana's law in the Supreme Court. But this is just silly. In this day and age everyone has a photo ID anyway, so what's the problem?

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Outside The Beltway, BitsBlog, Angry Bear and Shakespeare's Sister

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

Dissension hits Romney campaign — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has television ads and mailings on standby to attack Rudy Giuliani but so far has not used them because of an internal dispute about the risks of a backlash in going negative on the Republican front-runner …

Discussion: MSNBC and Hot Air

Peter Berkowitz / Opinion Journal:

The Insanity of Bush Hatred — Our politics suffer when passions overcome reason and vitriol becomes virtue. — Hating the president is almost as old as the republic itself. The people, or various factions among them, have indulged in Clinton hatred, Reagan hatred, Nixon hatred …

Discussion: Salon, Chicago Boyz and Blue Crab Boulevard

New York Times:

President of Columbia Is Criticized — Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, was confronted yesterday by discontented professors who gathered more than 100 faculty signatures for a document criticizing his leadership. — Their "statement of concern," read to him at a faculty meeting …

Discussion: The Sundries Shack and Fox News

John Hawkins / Right Wing News:

The Kathleen Willey Interview — Yesterday, I did a phone interview with Kathleen Willey, who has a new book out: Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton. — What follows is a transcript of our conversation, edited slightly for readability's sake.