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10:40 PM ET, December 22, 2007

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Rasmussen Reports:
For or Against Presidential Candidates  —  Clinton and Romney Have Highest Level of Core Opposition Among Leading Candidates  —  Among the leading Presidential candidates, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney have the highest level of core opposition among voters.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Can't Anyone Play This Here Game?  —  If any presidential primary ever exemplified None Of The Above, it's the one inflicted on us now.  According to Rasmussen, everyone gets a negative favorability rating in this race — and I mean everyone (via Memeorandum):
Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:
Romney and McCain campaigns tangle over taxes  —  NORTH CONWAY, New Hampshire (CNN) - Mitt Romney told a crowd in notoriously tax-averse New Hampshire Saturday that rival John McCain had “failed Reagan 101″ by not supporting President Bush's tax cuts, the latest in a series of new attacks …
Discussion: New York Times and The Swamp
Associated Press:
Romney accuses McCain of ‘failing’ Reagan's legacy by opposing Bush's tax cuts
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
2 Candidates, 2 Fortunes, 2 Views of Wealth  —  By the final weeks of 1984, well before either turned 40, John Edwards and Mitt Romney had already built successful careers.  But the two men were each on the verge of an entirely new level of financial success.
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Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Obama, Edwards Go Long
Discussion: The New Republic
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama hits Edwards on 527 group
Discussion: TalkLeft
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama calls on Edwards to stop 527 ad
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Bill Clinton: Hillary's Political Boon Or Political Albatross?  —  To many, the 2000 Presidential election was really about “the Bush restoration” — bringing back the Bushes after the unseemly interruption of Democrat Bill Clinton's Presidency.  And now there are growing signs that the 2008 primary …
Discussion: CBS News and TalkLeft
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Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton Embraces Her Husband's Legacy
Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950  —  A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
Concord Monitor:
Romney should not be the next president  —  December 22.  —  If you were building a Republican presidential candidate from a kit, imagine what pieces you might use: an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit.
Deacon / Power Line:
A CASE OF CLEMENCY THAT'S EASY TO EXPLAIN  —  It hasn't been apparent to me why Mike Huckabee favored the release from prison of Wayne Dumond, a patently dangerous rapist who, once released, committed murder.  By contrast, it's easy to see why Mike Huckabee wanted to help Eugene Fields …
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David Barstow / New York Times:   A Request for Clemency Leads to a Political Issue for Huckabee
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Christmas Ad That Topped Them All  —  CapQ readers want to have an eggnog with him, and now we know why.  Fred Thompson just released the best Christmas ad in this cycle, one in which no one will find floating crosses, holiday fruitcake, downer lighting, and especially tone-deaf “gifts” …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Press Association:
Blair converts to Catholicism  —  Tony Blair has converted to Roman Catholicism, sources close to the former prime minister said today.  —  He was welcomed into the church in a service last night.  —  The move comes after years of speculation that Mr Blair, whose wife Cherie and four children …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Booman Tribune
Aaron Lewis / CBS News:
Edwards Says He'll Take On Big Insurance Companies  —  From CBS News' Aaron Lewis:  —  NEVADA, IOWA — John Edwards tonight cited the case of a 17-year-old California girl who died after her insurance company refused coverage on a liver transplant to save her life as a call to action to change …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Huck offers olive branch to Rush, asks for him to get in touch  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The best-talking Republican politician in America has a message for the best-talking conservative voice in the country: Let's talk to one another.  —  Mike Huckabee, taking questions from reporters …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Thompson's Waterloo (Iowa)  —  Is he Napoleon or Wellington?  —  Waterloo, Iowa  —  Forty-five minutes before Fred Thompson spoke here last Tuesday night, young volunteers greeted reporters and potential Iowa voters just inside the front door of the Waterloo Center for the Arts.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Matthews Stands By His Man  —  You gotta hand it to Tweety...he shows considerably more monogamous devotion to Rudy Giuliani than Giuliani has ever shown any person in his life.  Chris Matthews found a little news item well hidden in the back pages of the NY Times (that liberal media at work again! …
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Republican Video: I've Got A Crush On Fred Thompson's Politics  —  We already know Republicans have a hard time being funny, and even being catchy is a stretch for them, but when I found this hilarious video at Daily Kos I thought C&L readers would like to share in the unintended laughs.
 
 
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Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
At the San Diego Zoo, it's showtime for a ‘show- stopper’
Discussion: WhirledView and Hullabaloo
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Naive or hard-nosed?  —  Mark Schmitt has an interesting …
Discussion: American Prospect
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Huckabee dogged by immigration issue
Dana Ford / Reuters:
Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Huck vows to review controversial shooting
Discussion: Hot Air
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
State of the race as the Christmas curtain begins to fall
Discussion: The New Republic
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
IOWA: WHERE THINGS STAND
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SIMON SAYS....In the annals of unconvincing excuses …
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
As Primaries Begin, the FEC Will Shut Down
Terry Teachout / Opinion Journal:
Appointment With Big Brother
Linda Chavez / Townhall.com:
Destroying CIA Tapes Deserves a Thank You
Discussion: Sadly, No! and Think Progress
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Mitt: I'll “go after” retailers who sell violent adult video games
Discussion: QandO and race42008.com
Don Surber:
Top 10 stories of 2007  —  America's editors were wrong.
Discussion: Right Wing News and GINA COBB
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Why Inexperience Matters  —  The AP takes a look at the political …
Discussion: Hot Air and Associated Press
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Gen. David Petraeus, Man of the Year
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