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7:00 PM ET, January 8, 2008

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James Kirchick / The New Republic:
Angry White Man  —  The bigoted past of Ron Paul.  —  If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you.  Paul describes himself as a libertarian, but, since his presidential campaign took off earlier …
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Ron Paul 2008:
Press Releases › Ron Paul Statement on The New Republic Article Regarding Old Newsletters  —  ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - In response to an article published by The New Republic, Ron Paul issued the following statement:  —  “The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine …
Daniel Koffler / Pajamas Media:
RON PAUL BIGOTRY REVOLUTION  —  A damning New Republic expose on Ron Paul shows the “libertarian” Republican candidate to be a racist, a homophobe and an anti-Semite.  Will his diehard supporters continue to defend a man who called Martin Luther King a gay pedophile?
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Exclusive: Ron Paul Responds To New Republic Story  —  About an hour ago I followed Ron Paul outside the Radisson in Manchester, NH to get his response to James Kirchick's explosive New Republic piece, “Angry White Man."  The article goes through the Texas Republican's newsletters …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Ron Paul Exposed?  —  It took a while to get through to their server but I was finally able to read Jamie Kirchick's review of the various newsletters sponsored by Ron Paul in the 1980s and 1990s.  They are a repellent series of tracts, full of truly appalling bigotry.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: TNR editor pores through the archives of Ron Paul's …
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Berin M. Szoka / Gays & Lesbians for Ron Paul:
Jamie Kirchick: “I don't think Ron Paul is a homophobe; I'm just cynical”
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
The New Republic:
Selections From Ron Paul's Newsletters
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
New Hampshire Turnout ‘Absolutely Huge’  —  ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: New Hampshire Deputy Secretary of State Dave Scanlan told ABC News that turnout among primary voters today is “absolutely huge” — and there are concerns about running out of ballots in towns like Portsmouth, Keene, Hudson and Pelham.
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Gloria Steinem / New York Times:
Women Are Never Front-Runners  —  Correction appended.  —  THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6.  Herself the daughter of a white American mother and a black African father …
Pat Grossmith / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Large voter turnout reported  —  MANCHESTER - Long lines of people formed inside some polls this morning minutes after they opened at 6 a.m. for the New Hampshire presidential primary.  —  Louise Gosselin, Ward 6 moderator, said election officials expected about 150 people to vote each hour at St. Pius X on Candia Road.
Bill Clinton / CNN:
Bill Clinton targets media coverage of Obama  —  (CNN) - On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, former President Bill Clinton criticized the media for not pressing Barack Obama more fully on Iraq, and accused the Illinois senator of shifting his position to reflect changing attitudes on the war.
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
The Perfect Storm  —  What destroyed Hillary Clinton's campaign?
Discussion: MSNBC and Chicago Boyz
Ariel Sabar / Christian Science Monitor:
New Hampshire turning ‘blue’
Discussion: neo-neocon
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
James Carville Emphatically Denies That He's Going To Work For Hillary  —  Fox News just reported that James Carville and Paul Begala will be re-entering the Clinton orbit by coming in to work for Hillary as senior campaign volunteers as early as tomorrow — the idea being that they're …
Discussion: The Opinionator
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Major Garrett / Major Garrett's Bourbon Room:
Back to the Future: Carville & Begala to join Clinton campaign
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:   Shake-up, the narrative  —  James Carville is coming on board …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:   Maggie Williams to Join Clinton Effort
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Huckabee vows to defy birthright citizenship  —  Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate — a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.
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Byron York / The Corner:
Re: You Have to be Kidding Me  —  Mike Huckabee just released this statement:
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
You Have to Be Kidding Me
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports and Hot Air
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
LOOKING FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE EXIT POLLS?  —  Looking for leaked exit poll results from New Hampshire?  Sorry to disappoint, but whatever their merits, we are unlikely to see any such leaked results until moments before the polls close.  —  In past years, the network consortium that conducts …
New York Post:
IRAN 1, USA 0  —  NAVAL ERROR IN THE GULF  —  EARLY Sunday morning, the US Navy lost its nerve and guaranteed that American sailors will die at Iranian hands in the future.  —  As three of our warships passed through the Straits of Hormuz, five small Iranian patrol craft rushed them.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama vs. Bill on the media  —  Obama talked to reporters at a Dunkin' Donuts in Manchester.  —  From the pool report: … He also talked about Nevada and South Carolina — where Clinton expects to lose — and offered a glimpse of the momentum the calendar will likely give him.
Discussion: 2008Central.net
 
 
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Azi Paybarah / New York Observer:
Obama's N.Y. Fund-Raisers Turn Down V.I.P.s
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
N.H. Expectations Game Underway
Discussion: The Caucus and Oliver Willis
pam Eugene OR / CNN:
Early exit polls: Top issues
Discussion: Hot Air
Bill Mears / CNN:
Lawyers request second chance for Sen. Craig
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
White House Told to Provide E-Mail Info
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
No Second Term for Former Va. Gov. Allen
Discussion: The Corner
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Huckabee's To Lose  —  He's now the front-runner nationally - check here and here.
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
A President's Defender Keeps His Distance
Balkinization:
The End of Reaganism, or, Three Cheers for the Great Destroyer
Christian Schneider / The Wisconsin Policy …:
The Woman Who Changed the World