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4:10 PM ET, January 24, 2008

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RushLimbaugh.com:
Let's Hear Some Straight Talk  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: A new California poll taken just after Fred Thompson's withdrawal from the Republican primary shows Mitt Romney as leading big over McCain in California when it comes to which candidate best represents the Republican Party.
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Jim Ash / News Press:
Poll: Romney slightly ahead in Florida  —  TALLAHASSEE — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a slight edge in Florida over his closest GOP rival, Arizona Sen. John McCain, with just five days to go before Tuesday's presidential primary, according to a poll released today.
Steven Stark / Real Clear Politics:
Who Said Freddy's Dead?  —  The Republican race is coming into focus.  Well, sort of.  If John McCain can win the Florida primary on January 29, he'll be the clear front-runner heading into Super Tuesday a week later.  —  But Florida is hardly a sure thing for McCain.
Discussion: Power Line, Confederate Yankee and MyDD
CNN:
Giuliani fights political fall in Florida
Washington Post:
Some in Party Bristle At Clintons' Attacks  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign aired a new radio ad here Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Sen. Barack Obama, in what some Democrats said is part of an increasing pattern of hardball politics by her and former president Bill Clinton.
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Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog:
Bill Clinton's Old Politics  —  I write this more out of sadness than anger.  Bill Clinton's ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing no credit to the former President, his legacy, or his wife's campaign.  Nor are they helping the Democratic party.
Marc Ambinder:
(Updated) Clinton Campaign Pulls The Misleading South Carolina Ad....  First described here.  —  Working to figure out why....  Update:  —  A Clinton aide said the ad was not intended to air for long, had finished its rotation, and had yielded its space to a “closer” ad that focuses on policy.
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Spells Out Her Economic Stimulus Plan
Discussion: The Hill
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Tentative Deal on Economic Stimulus Plan  —  WASHINGTON — House leaders and the White House on Thursday announced a tentative agreement on an economic stimulus package of roughly $150 billion that would pay stipends of $300 to $1,200 per family and provide tax incentives for businesses to encourage spending.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Jay Rockefeller's unintentionally revealing comments  —  As the Senate takes up “debate” today over granting the President new warrantless eavesdropping powers and granting immunity to lawbreaking telecoms, the individual who joined forces with Dick Cheney to get this ball rolling …
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Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Obama said oops on 6 state Senate votes  —  He pushed the wrong button, he asserted at the time.  Two of the admitted flubs were on hotly contested issues.  —  Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago's West Side.
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Manu Raju / The Hill:
Bipartisanship push sparks conservative revolt
Discussion: Tapscott's Copy Desk
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
The Dems just gave away your stimulus check  —  According to AP, congressional leaders have reached a deal on those economic stimulus checks.  And rather than being geared towards helping the economy, they're apparently geared towards redistributing wealth (that would be our wealth) to the poor.
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Bill Gates Issues Call For Kinder Capitalism  —  Famously Competitive, Billionaire Now Urges Business to Aid the Poor  —  Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates.  But today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.  —  In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos …
Discussion: The Corner, Portfolio.com and Salon
Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: Obama's SC lead slipping but still wide  —  Edwards makes gains amid shifting voter preferences  —  Utica, NY - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's lead over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has shrunk by four points overall and by nine points among black voters …
Discussion: Reuters, MyDD and Political Machine
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Roddie A. Burris / The State:
John Edwards campaign | Close to do or die
Patrick Ruffini:
The Thompson Postmortem  —  This will be the first in a series of posts analyzing each of the Republican presidential candidates as they depart the race (or, in one case, somehow miraculously wind up with the nomination).  I have asked some of the GOP's brightest strategists to share …
Agence France Presse:
Bono confesses sins to ‘father’ Al Gore  —  Having climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip, Irish rock star Bono confessed Thursday.  —  Sharing a stage with the former US vice president at the annual gathering of world movers …
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Canadian Military Has Quit Turning Detainees Over to Afghans  —  OTTAWA — The Canadian military secretly stopped transferring prisoners to Afghanistan's government in November after Canadian monitors found evidence that they were being abused and tortured.  —  The suspension, which began Nov. 5 …
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Editing Hillary's Story  —  Last summer, I asked Hillary Clinton if she had any reservations about using her husband in her campaign.  She said no, that having Bill on the team was “a great gift.  I have always believed you should get the very best people to advise you."  —  I never really made use of the interview.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Prairie Weather
NPR:
‘Internal and External Threats’  —  But it also includes a provision that promises to maintain the stability of Iraq's government from “internal and external threats."  This sentence is raising alarms for some U.S. lawmakers.  —  Any such agreement would be considered a treaty by many legal experts.
 
 
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Michael Sean Winters / America Magazine:
In All Things  —  The annual March for Life has come and gone.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
RUNNING LIKE A REPUBLICAN?  —  I'm a bit conflicted over this Paul Waldman column.
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
HuffPost and Pollsters: Why We're Just Not That Into Them
Discussion: TalkLeft
Amanda / Think Progress:
Boxer Chastises EPA Administrator For Redacting Documents …
Erin Ballou / zwire.com:
Muslim opening prayer at Iowa Statehouse raises concerns
The Huffington Post:
Colbert's Civil Rights MLK Day Writer's Strike-Busting Writerless Show — In Song
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
CLINTON PRO-CHOICE SUPPORTER FLIPS TO OBAMA.
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Mark Weiner / syracuse.com:
Jim Walsh retiring from Congress
 Earlier Items: 
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Clinton and his God Nemesis
Rich Lowry / The Corner:
The Rudyification of Romney and the Romnification of Rudy (or Something Like That)
Discussion: Ross Douthat
New York Times:
Justice Nomination Seen as Snub to Democrats
Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:
Business as Usual GOP
Discussion: Babalu Blog, Redstate and Cold Fury
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Anti-Bush campaign planned
Azi Paybarah / New York Observer:
Source at Fund-Raiser: Edwards Calls McCain ‘Crazy’ …
Discussion: Hot Air and Donklephant