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5:10 PM ET, January 14, 2008

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Matt Bai / The Caucus:
The Clintons and History  —  WASHINGTON — There's an old joke people here in the capital like to tell about Charles E. Schumer, the New York senator, and over the years I'm sure it's been used to describe other politicians, as well: The most dangerous place to stand in Washington …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race  —  Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary.  [See the full memo here.]
Frank James / The Swamp:
Clinton camp fires up blacks but not how they hoped  —  The fallout from comments about Sen. Barack Obama made by billionaire Robert Johnson of Black Entertainment Television fame on behalf of Sen. Hillary Clinton continues today.  —  Former President Bill Clinton put distance between himself …
Josh Gerstein / Latest Politics:
President Clinton Does More Damage Control on Black Radio  —  In an interview Monday, President Clinton mounted a less-than-vigorous defense of comments a prominent supporter of Senator Clinton's presidential bid, Robert Johnson, made which many interpreted as a reference to Senator Obama's admission …
CNN:
Bill Clinton compiles ‘list’ of Obama attacks  —  (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign came out swinging Monday against the latest complaints from her rival, with former President Clinton announcing he has “a list of 80 attacks on Hillary” by Senator Barack Obama's campaign.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson / The Huffington Post:
Obama Needs a History Lesson about Hillary and King  —  The Obama camp did it again.  They manufactured yet another issue out of a non-issue when they pounded Hillary Clinton for supposedly defiling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by minimizing his role in the civil rights struggle.
Discussion: PoliGazette
USA Today:
USAT/Gallup Poll: McCain jumps to lead; Clinton regains advantage  —  Both winners in last week's New Hampshire primary now lead in the USA TODAY/Gallup national poll of the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination races.  —  Sen. John McCain has jumped ahead of the other Republican contenders.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Trust Huck into Mich, zinging Mitt
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:   ROMNEY IN MICHIGAN....Kos is still pushing Democrats to cross …
Matthew Yglesias:
Democrats for Romney
Pete Winn / CNSNews:
Michigan Crowd Boos McCain on Illegal Immigration
Anjeanette Damon / Inside Nevada Politics:
New Poll: Democratic race in Nevada a dead heat  —  A new poll by the Reno Gazette-Journal shows a neck-and-neck three-way race among Democrats for Saturday's caucus.  On the Republican side, U.S. Sen. John McCain has taken his first lead in Nevada of the election season, and Mitt Romney …
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Bothersome Intel on Iran  —  In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administration's recent National Intelligence Estimate.  That NIE, made public Dec. 3, embarrassed the administration …
David Mark / The Politico:
Clinton holds solid lead in California  —  The poll of 384 likely Democratic primary voters, conducted by telephone Jan. 11-13, shows the New York senator at 47 percent, comfortably ahead of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's 31 percent and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards' 10 percent.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Responding to Recession  —  Suddenly, the economic consensus seems to be that the implosion of the housing market will indeed push the U.S. economy into a recession, and that it's quite possible that we're already in one.  As a result, over the next few weeks we'll be hearing a lot about plans for economic stimulus.
Aaron Siegel / InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines:
Financial advisers' No. 1 worry: A Democrat in the White House  —  Nothing worries financial advisers more than the prospect of a Democrat's being elected president in November, according to a quarterly poll by Brinker Capital Inc.  —  The fourth-quarter edition of the Brinker Barometer …
Josh Kraushaar / The Crypt's Blogs:
Father of Marine killed in Iraq to run against Patrick Murphy  —  Freshman Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), the only Iraq war veteran in Congress, is facing the prospect of a re-election fight against a colonel in the Marine reserves whose son was killed in Iraq last year.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama's soundtrack  —  So I've now spent way too much of my morning trying to report out the New York Post's item that Obama had sexist entrance music: … It's a provocative scene.  But I can't find any evidence that it happened, though it does seem to have been the subject of chatter among staffers of both campaigns.
 
 
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