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3:20 AM ET, January 8, 2008

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Michael Elmore / Political Radar:
Rivals Reacts to Teary Clinton  —  ABC News' David Muir, Raelyn Johnson and Sunlen Miller Report: Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., on the tail end of his 36-hour campaigning marathon in New Hampshire on day before the primary vote, reacted to rival Sen. Hillary Clinton's emotional moment Monday.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton fights back tears: 'It's not easy'  —  Exhausted and facing the prospect of losing the second test of her primary campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton fought back tears as her voice broke at the close of a sedate event in a Portsmouth coffee shop.  —  She expressed the sheer difficulty …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Clinton Gets Emotional on Campaign Trail
USA Today:
Gallup: Clinton-Obama tied nationally; Huckabee leads GOP  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama each drew 33% of the support from Democrats surveyed in its latest national poll, Gallup just announced.  —  In mid-December, well before Obama won last Thursday's Democratic caucuses in Iowa …
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CNN:
First votes counted in New Hampshire primary  —  DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) — Citizens went to the polls in two small New Hampshire towns just after midnight Tuesday to cast the first ballots in a 2008 presidential primary.  —  In Dixville Notch, they gave Sen. John McCain …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Huckabee, Obama Gain at National Level  —  Huckabee leads; Obama moves into tie with Clinton  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama — both winners in last week's Iowa caucuses — have gained support at the national level among those who identify with their respective parties.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Say Anything and Open Left
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BAD CALL  —  There's been a lot of rough news for Hillary Clinton in the last 72 hours.  And a lot of unforced errors.  But I think on this MLK and Lyndon Johnson remark, the edited quote that's circulating from The Politico is misleading.  —  The Politico quote is ...  But I think the full quote reads differently.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton and Obama, Johnson and King  —  Clinton rejoined the running argument over hope and “false hope” in an interview in Dover this afternoon, reminding Fox's Major Garrett that while Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on behalf of civil rights, President Lyndon Johnson was the one who got the legislation passed.
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Only Obama Can Beat Obama  —  Time to adjust some final predictions from my barstool here in New Hampshire.  —  I thought Huckabee would get something going here.  He has, but not much.  Romney gave him a good beating in the first minutes of the Fox debate last night, and the Huck's schedule here has been light.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Marc Ambinder:
Romney's Challenge To Obama  —  BEDFORD — First, the crowds.  —  It was one of Mitt Romney's largest events in New Hampshire.  800 residents packed into a middle school here in this wealthy, mostly Republican suburb, with many more turned away.  Cars were parked a half a mile down the road.
Discussion: race42008.com
Human Events:
New Hampshire Predictions: Obama Blowout; Romney Rallying
Discussion: The Corner and Riehl World View
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
RedState Tells Readers Scoop Developers Are All Liberals, So Fork Over $25 Grand  —  I realize that there's one born every minute, but in a letter to RedState readers, Erick Erickson says that their readers need to raise $25,000 in order to keep them from being overrun by a liberal plot:
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Redstate:
RedState has a real need for your help
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM) and KnoxViews
Sarah Wheaton / The Caucus:
‘Iron My Shirt’  —  SALEM, N.H. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was about to deliver a line that has become a centerpiece of her campaign since her loss in Iowa.  —  “Everybody in this race is talking about change.  But what does that mean?"  —  “Iron my shirt!” yelled a man …
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Washington Wire:   Sexism Is 'Alive and Well'  —  Amy Chozick reports …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Candidacy's Prose and Cons  —  CONCORD, N.H. — Hillary Clinton may have unintentionally written the obituary for the Iowa and New Hampshire phase of her presidential campaign, and perhaps her candidacy, when she told voters on Sunday: “You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose.”
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
BILL TO PAUL SUPPORTERS: 'YOU'RE NUTS'  —  From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli  —  KEENE, NH — Several Ron Paul supporters shadowed a much larger Clinton entourage as Bill Clinton greeted supporters downtown.  The former president later called them “nuts."  —  During his third stop of the day …
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Mary Katharine Ham / TownHall Blog:
Iron My Shirt  —  I'm still at the Hillary rally.  My computer battery died.  —  Two protestors just stood up in the audience holding orange signs that read “IRON MY SHIRT,” and chanted “Iron my shirt, Iron my shirt” for a few seconds until led out by security.
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Clarke Canfield / Associated Press:
McCain, Obama, get early votes in N.H. villages  —  DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H.—Residents of two tiny towns stayed up late to give Barack Obama and John McCain early victories in the New Hampshire presidential primary.  —  Voters in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location cast the initial ballots just after midnight Tuesday.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Some Hillary Advisers Worry About Staying In Past New Hampshire; Others Urge Her To Fight On  —  Here's some detail on the internal discussions going on inside the Hillary campaign as they brace for the real possibility of a loss to Obama in New Hampshire tomorrow.
Discussion: PoliGazette
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Edwards Adviser Trippi: Hillary Campaign Is Broke
Discussion: Big Lizards, Political Machine and TIME
Associated Press:
Mayor's Racy Lingerie Photo on MySpace Upsets Residents  —  ARLINGTON, Ore. — Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist's name is sure to be mentioned when Arlington holds its annual town meeting Wednesday.  —  Some of the mayor's roughly 500 constituents will want to know her views on the issues affecting …
Discussion: UrbanGrounds
 
 
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Identity Crisis  —  THERE'S SOMETHING PATHETIC AND EMBARRASSING …
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Obama Won Because Of Liberals and Progressives
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
HILLARY AND CHANGE.  —  I meant to note this from my Clinton …
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OBAMA AND IRAQ  —  I JUST CAME FROM A BILL CLINTON TOWN HALL MEETING IN PETERBOROUGH.
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