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3:00 PM ET, December 21, 2007

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USA Today:
Poll: Obama makes gains, is even with Clinton in N.H.  —  PELHAM, N.H. — Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a dead heat among New Hampshire voters in a statewide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, underscoring the volatility of the race less than three weeks before the nation's first primary.
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USA Today:
USA TODAY / Gallup poll  —  Results are based on interviews with 477 New Hampshire residents deemed most likely to vote in the Republican primary .  The results for Section II are based on interviews with 510 New Hampshire residents deemed most likely to vote in the Democratic primary.
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Camp Registers Anti-Clinton Web Sites  —  Campaign Plays Semantics Over Whether Sites Are Personal Attacks  —  Though Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has pledged to keep criticisms of his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, focused on the issues, ABC News has learned that his campaign secretly registered …
Zogby:
Zogby Poll: Obama Leads Top Republicans  —  Telephone survey shows fellow Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Edwards would defeat some GOPers, lose to others  —  UTICA, New York - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama would defeat all five of the top Republicans in prospective general election contests …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Line: Someone Has to Win the GOP Nomination
Discussion: TalkLeft and MSNBC
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:   Hey Obama — Who Are You Calling Desperate?
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Is Republican Mike Huckabee's Presidential Primary Baptist …
Discussion: Associated Press and Fox News
The Campaign Spot:
Rush Limbaugh's First Shots at Huckabee  —  So everybody and their brother is listening to Rush today, wondering if he'll take a shot at Huckabee after an unnamed Huckabee aide in DC criticized Limbaugh...  The first comment, moments into the show: “You want to whine like Mike Huckabee's whining …
Discussion: Riehl World View and PoliGazette
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RushLimbaugh.com:
Huckabee Forces Attack El Rushbo  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: Huckabee forces are attacking me, ladies and gentlemen.  Yes siree, Bob, the Hucksters are on the warpath!  From the Atlantic magazine, this is from their blog.  The author is Marc Ambinder.
Discussion: The Corner
Michelle Malkin:
Mike Huckabee: The anti-Limbaugh candidate
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Rush goes nuclear on Huckabee? Update: Audio added
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Romney never saw father on King march  —  Defends figurative words; evidence contradicts story  —  Mitt Romney acknowledged yesterday that he never saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. as he asserted in a nationally televised speech this month, and historical evidence shows …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
It Gets Better  —  Here's the latest on Mitt and MLK.  Thirty years ago, Romney's version of the story was even more figurative:
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Re: Romney's Explanation
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Mitt Romney For President News:
Gov. George Romney And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Discussion: Power Line
Byron York / The Corner:
Why Isn't Anyone Paying Attention to This?  —  This was not exactly bannered across the front page of the New York Times yesterday.  As a matter of fact, I don't think I saw it in my paper at all.  But on the Times' website, dated December 20, there is this headline: “Giuliani's Office Shifted Money Around?
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Deacon / Power Line:
THE SCANDAL THAT WASN'T  —  Remember the frenzy over suggestions that, as mayor, Rudy Giuliani tried to hide his visits to Judith Nathan in the Hamptons by burying the associated security costs in the budgets of obscure mayoral agencies?  Well, the New York Times has looked deeply into the matter …
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Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Bush boxed in his congressional foes
Mark Schmitt / American Prospect:
The “Theory of Change” Primary  —  Perhaps we are being too literal in believing that “hope” and bipartisanship are things that Obama naively believes are present and possible, when in fact they are a tactic, a method of subverting and breaking the unified conservative power structure.
Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Richardson Accuses Clinton of ‘Flip-Flop’ on Iraq Pullout  —  MUSCATINE, Iowa — I just got a phone call — unprompted — from Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a Democratic candidate for president, blasting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for saying she would withdraw nearly all American troops …
Tucker Carlson / The New Republic:
Pimp My Ride  —  On the road with Ron Paul's merry band of misfits and his hooker fan club.  —  The first thing I learned from driving around Nevada with Ron Paul for a couple of days: People really hate the Federal Reserve.  This became clear midway through a speech Paul was giving …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Blindly Into the Bubble  —  When announcing Japan's surrender in 1945, Emperor Hirohito famously explained his decision as follows: “The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage."  —  There was a definite Hirohito feel to the explanation Ben Bernanke …
 
 
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
A Merry Christmas for Huckabee
Matthew Yglesias:
Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Mike Dorning / The Swamp:
Obama shows no modesty on foreign-policy record
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Column One: The triumph of legal defeatism
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama runs tight campaign ship
Matt / Think Progress:
Cheney Repeatedly Met With Auto Execs Before White House Killed …
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Hillary Who Stole Christmas
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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The Corner:
Conspiracy Theory  —  A week or so ago a reader from Arkansas wrote …
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Hardball: Ed Schultz Squares Off Against Mark Green
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Reid and company target the true enemy: “Dodd and his allies”
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
A Problem Like Bill  —  Hillary Clinton tells audiences …
Discussion: Fausta's blog and Betsy's Page
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Hasta La Vista
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Stewart and Colbert to Return Without Writers
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
American Pastoral  —  Mike Huckabee preaches to the choir …
Little Green Footballs:
Ron Paul's Photo-Op with Stormfront
 

 
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