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10:50 AM ET, December 12, 2007

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Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
CNN N.H. Poll: Obama, Clinton tied; Romney remains strong  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama has chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire, and the two Democratic presidential hopefuls are now locked in a statistical tie less than one month before the first-in-the-nation primary, a CNN/WMUR Poll released Wednesday shows.
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WMUR:
Poll: Clinton Loses Lead, Romney Out In Front  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — A new poll shows that while the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president holds a comfortable lead in New Hampshire, the Democratic race has tightened dramatically.  —  According to the latest WMUR/CNN poll …
NY Daily News:
Bill Clinton to aid Hillary's campaign  —  WASHINGTON - Bubba to the rescue!  —  Alarmed by his wife's slide in the polls and disarray within her backbiting campaign, a beside-himself Bill Clinton has leaped atop the barricades and is furiously plotting a cure - or coup.
New York Times:
Feeling Heat, Clinton Tries Iowa Up Close  —  DES MOINES — Ten months ago, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton went to East High School here on her first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate and laid out a case for her candidacy to a cheering crowd in a packed gymnasium.
Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama catches Clinton in New Hampshire  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama has chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire locking the Democrats in a statistical tie a month before the first presidential primary, according to a CNN/WMUR Poll released Wednesday.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
New N.H. poll: Clinton and Obama in a dead heat
Discussion: The Hill
Zev Chafets / New York Times:
The Huckabee Factor  —  Mike Huckabee walked into the lobby of the Des Moines Marriott at 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 3, deposited an armful of dirty laundry at the desk and checked to make sure he was being credited with Marriott Rewards points toward his next stay.  Then, accompanied by his wife …
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Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
Huckabee Questions Mormons' Belief  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"  —  The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine …
Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
Huckabee Asks if Mormons Believe Jesus, Devil Are Brothers  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, ''Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?''
Newsweek:
Paper Trail  —  Who authorized the CIA to destroy interrogation videos?  —  NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE  —  The CIA repeatedly asked White House lawyer Harriet Miers over a two-year period for instructions regarding what to do with "very clinical" videotapes depicting the use of "enhanced" …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Dream Is Dead  —  The man crowned by Tommy Franks as "the dumbest [expletive] guy on the planet" just made the dumbest [expletive] speech on the planet.  —  Doug Feith, the former Rummy gofer who drove the neocon plan to get us into Iraq, and then dawdled without a plan as Iraq crashed into chaos …
Discussion: Eschaton and Lance Mannion
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Republicans win in Va., Ohio elections  —  Republicans retained two House seats in special elections Tuesday, including a hotly contested Ohio race that the two parties spent nearly $700,000 trying to win.  —  Republican officials immediately pointed to the issue of immigration …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Republican Special Election Performance A Harbinger For 2008?
Bob Lewis / Hampton Roads Daily Press:
GOP's Wittman routs Democrat to win Virginia seat in Congress
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
First Read: Last GOP dance in Iowa  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro  —  DES MOINES, IA — The last GOP debate until IA: The seemingly endless debate parade of 2007 began — on the Republican side — at the Reagan Library in California, underneath Reagan's own Air Force One.
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Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Moderator comes to Iowa debates armed with questions
Simon Caldwell / Daily Mail:
The Pope condemns the climate change prophets  —  Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.  —  The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested …
Alan Greenspan / Opinion Journal:
The Roots of the Mortgage Crisis  —  Bubbles cannot be safely defused by monetary policy before the speculative fever breaks on its own.  —  On Aug. 9, 2007, and the days immediately following, financial markets in much of the world seized up.  Virtually overnight the seemingly insatiable desire …
ABCNEWS:
Bush: 'I Doubt I'd Be Standing Here If I Hadn't Quit Drinking Whiskey'  —  President Bush Opens Up About Past Alcohol Addiction During Exclusive Interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Bush spoke more candidly than ever before about his past alcohol addiction.
Discussion: Political Machine
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Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Inside The White House
Discussion: The Page
Michael B. Mukasey / Los Angeles Times:
A FISA fix  —  One of the most critical matters facing Congress is the need to enact long-term legislation updating our nation's foreign intelligence surveillance laws.  Intercepting the communications of terrorists and other intelligence targets has given us crucial insights into the intentions …
Discussion: Don Surber
Sommer Mathis / DCist:
Worst Headline of the Day Award  —  The thinly veiled sexism oozing out of today's Examiner column by veteran local politics observer Harry Jaffe is hard enough to take, but to whomever thought up this gem of a headline, be they copy editor or author, DCist salutes your willingness to go boldly …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
New York Post:
JEWS' SUBWAY HERO A MUSLIM  —  SAVES 'HANUKKAH' RIDERS FROM THUGS  —  A Brooklyn man whose "Happy Hanukkah" greeting landed him in the hospital said he was saved from a gang of Jew-bashing goons aboard a packed Q train by a total stranger - a modest Muslim from Bangladesh.
 
 
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
An Interview With Matt Sanchez
Megan McArdle:
How can markets be efficient if people are such morons?
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Remaking The Journal  —  In the last few months, Rupert Murdoch …
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Losing Weight in the Gulf
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Bush Pardons, Commuted Sentence
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