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5:50 PM ET, January 18, 2008

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Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
THE NEVADA CAUCUS: Poll: Nevada going to Clinton, Romney  —  Obama picks up no ground; Giuliani fades  —  Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney have comfortable leads in Nevada going into Saturday's presidential campaign caucuses, according to a new Review-Journal poll.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
The martyrdom of John McCain  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. - The national media thinks John McCain is under siege again, and his campaign is only too happy to help reporters file their stories.  —  At a rally Thursday, outside McCain's headquarters just down the street from the state capitol here …
Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Polls: McCain Retains South Carolina Lead; Clinton Leads Obama in Nevada  —  South Carolina  —  Arizona Sen. John McCain is holding on to his lead in South Carolina as the Republican primary election there approaches, a new Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby three-day telephone tracking poll shows.
The New Republic:
McCain, You Depress Me  —  My colleague Leon has been “rather stirred” by many things about John McCain, including his “decency about immigrants."  I'm rather stirred by that too — it is my favorite thing about McCain, his capacity to argue that it's a profoundly American imperative …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Byron York / The Hill:
The president of Florida
Discussion: TownHall Blog and Weekly Standard
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Thompson really needs a South Carolina win
Discussion: TPM Election Central and Slog
Rich Lowry / Real Clear Politics:
Huck Hoax: Why He Won't Break Out  —  Mike Huckabee has pulled a neat trick.His appeal so far has been limited exclusively to evangelicals, yet the press has taken him seriously as a new populist force in the Republican Party who could at any moment “break out” to appeal to lower-income voters.
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Ross Douthat:
The Limits of Huckabee  —  Rich Lowry's column is tough on him but largely fair, I think.
Discussion: Eunomia and Crunchy Con
Matthew Yglesias:
Placing the Candidates  —  Interesting chart from the Pew Center.  One piece of bad news for liberals is that it seems that the self-assessed ideology of the American people is still somewhat right of center.  It's also funny how unhinged Republicans' views of Hillary Clinton are.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Callous Conservative  —  After watching Fred Thompson debate his Republican rivals, I have often wondered why he is not in the top tier of candidates.  He seems to have John McCain's honesty, without his razor-sharp edges, and Mitt Romney's conservatism, without his jaw-dropping inconsistencies.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama Debuts New Act in Vegas  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) - The White House campaign has brought a new act to Vegas.  Barack Obama has stepped up his campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he's trying to use humor to bring her down before this weekend's Democratic presidential caucus.
Discussion: The New Republic
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Skewers Critics in Nevada
San Francisco Chronicle:
Mauling survivor said he yelled at tiger  —  (01-17) 18:05 PST SAN FRANCISCO — One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old dead told the victim's father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's exhibit …
Discussion: The Lede, protein wisdom and Slog
Jonathan Stein / MoJoBlog:
Mitt Romney's Lobbyist Connections  —  In a tense exchange with an AP reporter on Thursday, Mitt Romney insisted that even though a registered lobbyist is one of his senior advisers, lobbyists do not “run” his campaign.  —  The claim is part of Romney's new self-styled outsider message …
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Fred File:
The Constitution is Not a “Living, Breathing Document”  —  This morning I heard that one of the other candidates commented that the Constitution is a “living, breathing document."  —  Frankly, I assumed this came from Senator Clinton or Senator Obama.  It is identical to what Al Gore …
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Video: Huckabee says the Constitution is a “living, breathing …
Discussion: Riehl World View and Daily Pundit
The Corner:
Nicholas Burns and the Clinton Legacy at State  —  Reports indicate R. Nicholas Burns, the State Department's Number 3 official, will be stepping down.  A career foreign service officer, Burns will best be remembered for his most visible post: the Clinton administration's top State Department spokesman during the mid-1990s.
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:   U.S. Diplomat Nicholas Burns Stepping Down
FOX Attacks:
FOX ATTACKS!  “Non-Existent” Veterans  —  Embed code for your site:  —  Sign the letter to Bill O'Reilly demanding he apologize to the “non-existent” homeless vets here.  —  To Bill O'Reilly: Homeless veterans exist.  I met some.  —  In a previous post, I wrote about Bill O'Reilly's bizarre assertion …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
McCain Lies His Head Off; NY Times Asleep at Switch  —  One of the most common-supply-side talking points is that tax cuts always lead to higher tax revenues.  It's not really true (revenues crashed after the 2001 Bush tax cuts) but even if it were, it's misleading: Tax revenues tend to rise …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
50 WAYS TO BE A LOSER  —  I know I've been hitting on the Rudy collapse story for a while.  But it's just so vast there are a lot of points to cover.  Remember that the Rudy ‘plan’ (which on many levels is a phony one anyway) was to plan for a knockout blow in February by winning big states like California.
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports
Christopher Hitchens / Wall Street Journal:
The Perils of Identity Politics  —  Let us give hearty thanks and credit to Rudy Giuliani, who has never by word or gesture implied that we would fracture any kind of “ceiling” if we elected as chief executive a man whose surname ends in a vowel.  —  Yet actually, it would be unprecedented …
NY Daily News:
Ben Affleck made Nancy Pelosi giggly  —  Both Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek lost precious personal photos during vacations abroad over the holidays.  Hayek, who's a new mom, got her laptop stolen, and Cruz's camera was lost or stolen, according to letters sent out by Hollywood legal giant Marty Singer …
 
 
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Line: Don't Forget Congress!
Discussion: MyDD
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Hillary Personally Slams Obama Over Reagan Comments
Discussion: TalkLeft and Spin Cycle
Yahoo! News:
Supreme Court denies Kucinich ballot bid
Discussion: Wake up America
Nelson Hernandez / Washington Post:
Naval Academy Rite Might Slip Away
Discussion: On Deadline and Betsy's Page
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Don't Cry for Me, America
Discussion: Gristmill and Firedoglake
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Huckabee And Reconstructionism  —  Hugh Hewitt - who insists …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Atrios / Eschaton:
Stimulus  —  John Hardwood said the proposed stimulus …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Corrente
Weekly Standard:
Misjudging McCain  —  He was right about the nuclear option.
 Earlier Items: 
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Interviewing Jonah Goldberg About His New Book, Liberal Fascism
Discussion: The Corner
Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Releases Records Re: Hillary's Health Care Reform Plan
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Southern Blacks Are Split on Clinton vs. Obama
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
McCain hit by Hammer on the Hill
Gudjon Helgason / Associated Press:
Chess master Bobby Fischer dead at 64
New York Post:
THE NEW 'LEPERS'  —  THE TIMES' TROUBLE WITH VETS
 

 
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