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3:16 AM ET, January 2, 2008

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Washington Post:
Independent Voters May Give Obama Edge in Iowa  —  With two days before Iowans go to the polls, significant support for Sen. Barack Obama from political independents has put rival Democratic campaigns on edge, challenging the traditional model of the state's caucuses as a low-turnout exercise dominated by partisan insiders.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Campaigns Feeling Effects of Iowa Poll  —  DES MOINES — The results of the Des Moines Register's final poll of Iowa caucus-goers, showing Senator Barack Obama leading the Democrats and Mike Huckabee leading the Republicans, continued to reverberate across the campaign trail on Tuesday …
Washington Wire:
Clinton, Obama Top $100 Million for 2007  —  Mary Jacoby reports from New Hampshire on the presidential race.  —  Sen. Barack Obama, with wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha, at a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa.  Photo: Associated Press  —  Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama …
Discussion: Say Anything
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Poll: Clinton, McCain lead in NH
Discussion: Hot Air, The Corner, MyDD and Daily Pundit
Marc Ambinder:
Kucinich Urges Supporters To Choose Obama On Second “Ballot”  —  On Thursday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich might actually swing the results of the caucus, which is why I'm passing this along.  —  Kucinich's supporters could help Obama in non-liberal precincts where the two or three Kucinich supporters …
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Kucinich Tells Supporters to Caucus for Obama  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Representative Dennis Kucinich urged his Iowa followers today to select Senator Barack Obama as their second choice at the caucuses on Thursday if his support is not strong enough to be viable in the 1,781 precincts across the state.
Discussion: musings
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Kucinich throws Obama a bone  —  An unexpected twist from the Kucinich camp: … UPDATE: Obama responds:
Discussion: MyDD, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Washington Times:
Kucinich urges supporters to make Obama second pick
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
KUCINICH URGES SUPPORTERS TO BACK OBAMA...
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Hindustan Times:
Pak Govt makes U-turn on cause of Bhutto's death  —  In a dramatic U-turn, Pakistan government has “apologised” for claiming that former premier Benazir Bhutto died of a skull fracture after hitting the sunroof of her car during a suicide attack.  —  Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan …
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Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Biden hits rivals on Pakistan policy
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton errs on Pakistan
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Romney says Bush mismanaged Iraq war  —  JOHNSTON, Iowa (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Tuesday the Bush administration mismanaged the Iraq war, distancing himself from his party's unpopular president two days before Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential contest.
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Jane Norman / Des Moines Register:   Grassley: Giuliani's curtailed Iowa campaign ‘a big mistake’
Marc Santora / The Caucus:
McCain on Experience  —  Senator John McCain, who has long touted …
Discussion: TownHall Blog and eyeon08.com
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Edwards Calls for Quick Pullout of Troops Training Iraqi Forces  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa — John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police as part of a broader plan to remove virtually all American forces within 10 months.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Against the Democratic Party  —  people need training!
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Mike Huckabee / CNN:
New Huckabee ad appeals to Christian conservatives  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - For the second time in the past two weeks, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has aired a commercial in which a Christian symbol appears in the background.  —  In the campaign ad, Huckabee is addressing members …
Jerusalem Post:
Olmert says Israel must internalize divided J'lem  —  Israel needs to internalize that even its supportive friends on the international stage conceive of the country's future on the basis of the 1967 borders and with Jerusalem divided, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has declared to The Jerusalem Post.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
‘Hikers’ killers were from Fatah'  —  The terrorists who gunned down two off-duty soldiers hiking near Hebron on Friday are both Palestinian Authority workers, and one of them is even a member of the official PA security forces, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) revealed Tuesday night.
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
World's Top Surveillance Societies — Updated with link  —  Privacy International, a UK privacy group, and the U.S.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center have put together a world map of surveillance societies, rating various nations for their civil liberties records.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Don Surber:
Loser of the year: Pelosi  —  “The war in Iraq is the biggest disappointment for us,” she said.  “I mean the inability to stop the war in Iraq."  —  Never bet against the American soldier.  King George III did.  He lost.  Jefferson Davis did.  He lost.  Hirohito did.  He lost.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and BitsBlog
The Campaign Spot:
An Account of Thompson's ‘Desire’ Question, From The Man Who Asked  —  Todd Chelf, the Iowa Republican who asked Fred Thompson the question about his desire to be president that launched this weekend's brouhaha, gave me his account of the question, the answer, and the aftermath.
 
 
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John Distaso / UnionLeader.com:
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Cahal Milmo / The Independent:
2008: The year a new superpower is born
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Jesus' General:
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Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Rudy's Official Strategy
Tom Schaller / American Prospect:
EDWARDS' GAME PLAN FOR SECOND-CHOICERS
Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Bloomberg Denies Presidential Run...to Ryan Seacrest?
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Dan Gearino / Quad City Times:
Huckabee pokes fun at Bush over reading intelligence reports
 Earlier Items: 
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
DMR Poll: Majority of Obama Support Not From Democrats
Discussion: Firedoglake and Liberal Values
Michelle Malkin:
Cindy Sheehan: Down with BushCo-and screw the evil corporate Rose Bowl parade, too!
Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner:
What If?  —  I wonder what would have happened if McCain had won the nomination in 2000.
Discussion: Daily Pundit
The Corner:
A Happy New Year Abroad
Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
Huckabee's Iowa Meltdown
Discussion: BobKrumm.com
Matthew Yglesias:
The Possibly Not Coming Storm
Washington Wire:
Huckabee: What Ad Ploy?