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3:50 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.
CNN:
Giuliani fights political fall in Florida
Mary Ellen Klas / Naked Politics:
Romney with narrow lead in Mason Dixon poll
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE STIMULUS DEAL....Apparently a fiscal stimulus package has been tentatively agreed to by both sides: … I guess it could have been worse.  Virtually everyone who paid payroll taxes will receive $300 and the $150K household cutoff will prevent at least some of the wastage we'd get from giving money …
Paul Krugman:
Stimulus disappointment
Discussion: Angry Bear and D-Day
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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Marc Ambinder:
(Updated) Clinton Campaign Pulls The Misleading South Carolina Ad....
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Jay Rockefeller's unintentionally revealing comments  —  (updated below - Update II - Update III)  —  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 …
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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 and Redstate
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
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.
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 …
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Roddie A. Burris / The State:
John Edwards campaign | Close to do or die
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Anti-Bush campaign planned  —  WASHINGTON - A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to ensure that President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end.  —  Americans United for Change plans to undertake a yearlong campaign …
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Michelle Malkin:   BDS group to spend $8.5 million against lame duck president
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.
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 …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Erin Ballou / zwire.com:
Muslim opening prayer at Iowa Statehouse raises concerns  —  The Iowa Legislature started just over a week ago and some people were upset before the first issue was every addressed.  —  When the session began, a Muslim Imam began the prayer in the Iowa Legislature.  This is where the controversy begins.
Discussion: Little Green Footballs and Hot Air
Rich Lowry / The Corner:
The Rudyification of Romney and the Romnification of Rudy (or Something Like That)  —  It's interesting how Romney and Rudy have swapped strategies recently.  Initially, before his ads failed in New Hampshire and he pulled out of the early states entirely, Rudy's strategy was to do respectably in the early states.
Discussion: Ross Douthat
Azi Paybarah / New York Observer:
Source at Fund-Raiser: Edwards Calls McCain ‘Crazy’ and Says Hillary Thinks There's More on Rezko  —  Before John Edwards let David Letterman mess up his hair on the Late Show last night, the former Senator was at a private fund-raiser in midtown Manhattan, also attended by Kevin Bacon …
 
 
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Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: Kucinich Letter Cites Miscounts in NH, Requests State Carry …
Discussion: WMUR and CANNONFIRE
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 …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
FISA Live Debate Thread IV
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
War in Waziristan
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Patrick Ruffini:
The Thompson Postmortem
The Huffington Post:
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 Earlier Items: 
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
CLINTON PRO-CHOICE SUPPORTER FLIPS TO OBAMA.
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Canadian Military Has Quit Turning Detainees Over to Afghans
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Clinton and his God Nemesis
Associated Press:
Report: Mayor, Staffer Sent Steamy Txts
Discussion: Riehl World View
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