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3:20 PM ET, January 15, 2008

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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama's Farrakhan Test  —  Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.  Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Major Clinton supporter calls Obama remark ‘absolutely stupid’  —  (CNN) — As both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tried to lower the tension after days of charged rhetoric over race, a congressional supporter of Clinton's presidential bid called the Illinois senator's remarks attacking …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Identity Trap  —  When Hillary Clinton is good on the Sunday talk shows, she is really, really good.  But when she is bad, she's atrocious.  When she talks about policy, she will dazzle you.  When her own ambitions are on the line, it's time to reach for the sick bag.
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama  —  A day after his remarks about Sen. Barack Obama helped fuel a rancorous debate about race in the Democratic presidential contest, an unapologetic Robert L. Johnson described how frustrating it is to be on the other side of a candidate he compared to Teflon.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Guilt By Association  —  It didn't take long for Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: Israpundit and Atlas Shrugs
Ronald Kessler / NewsMax.com:
Washington Insider with Ronald Kessler
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Matthew Yglesias:
A Very Serious Blog Post  —  It seems that nothing gets conservatives off nearly so much as writing obviously unserious books with patently offensive titles, designed in every way to not be taken seriously, and then get huffy when people make fun of them without having given their precious works the deep consideration they deserve.
Detroit Free Press:
Little to no waiting at polls across metro Detroit  —  FREE PRESS STAFF REPORTS  —  It's Michigan's turn today to choose the presidential candidates.  Here's a sampling of scenes at polling places, as voters pick their favorites.  —  Birmingham resident breaks away from the family
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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: McCain, Romney Nose-to-Nose in Michigan  —  Utica, New York - Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney were in a statistical dead heat on the eve of the Republican primary election in Michigan, a new Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll shows.
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CNN:   Lack of Democratic contest could alter Michigan GOP primary
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Michigan: Little Wait time at Detroit Polling Places
The Times-Picayune / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Richard Baker to leave Congress Feb. 7  —  By Bill Walsh  —  WASHINGTON - The dean of Louisiana's congressional delegation, Rep. Richard Baker, has decided to step down from Congress after 22 years to take a job in the private sector representing investors he has spent a career regulating.
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John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
Richard Baker makes it official - he's off to K Street
Discussion: Think Progress
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Finally: Fred hits McCain; Update: Fred hits McCain again  —  Not with an uppercut but a good straight jab.  It would have been more effective if he'd gone after him individually instead of lumping him in with Huck but the race being what it is in South Carolina, he doesn't have much choice.
Tom Elia / theneweditor.com:
From the ‘Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds’ Dept.  —  Andrew Sullivan has this excerpt from the Detroit Free-Press as his “quote for the day": … The basis for the quote is hard to argue with, as Hillary Clinton is the only major Democratic candidate on the Michigan ballot …
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Tina Lam / Detroit Free Press:   Riegle: Clinton's actions manipulated the ballot
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Mike Huckabee Really Is a Piece of Work  —  From Michigan: … Governor, I didn't have silver spoons or boarding schools or a verb summer, but I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.  Is this the Republican primary of a John Edwards rally?
Dean Barnett / New York Times:
Driving Mr. Romney  —  I FIRST met Mitt Romney at a Lincoln Day dinner in 1994, during the earliest days of his failed Senate race against Ted Kennedy.  The next weekend, I was helping him to collect the signatures he needed to get on the ballot for the Republican primary.
Josephine Hearn / The Politico:
Pelosi pushes gourmet menu  —  The processed cheese has been replaced with brie.  The Jell-O has made way for raspberry kiwi tarts and mini-lemon blueberry trifles.  Meatloaf has moved over for mahi mahi and buns have been shunted aside in favor of baguettes.
New York Times:
Militants Escape Control of Pakistan, Officials Say  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is now suffering the violent blowback of that policy …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Kucinich court decision and “judicial activism”  —  (updated below)  —  MSNBC is televising a debate tonight between the Democratic presidential candidates in Nevada.  It originally invited Dennis Kucinich to participate because Kucinich met the objective criteria the network created for inclusion.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
HUCK, THE CONSTITUTION AND 'GOD'S STANDARDS'  —  From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy  —  WARREN, Mich. — Huckabee's closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and Christian values.
 
 
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Giuliani disses Green Bay Packers fan
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