memeorandum: Attorney General Edwards? (Robert D. Novak/Townhall.com)

3:30 PM ET, January 26, 2008

Top Items:

Is the right right on the Clintons? — Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple. — Something strange happened the other day. All these different people — friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read — kept saying the same thing …

Bob Herbert / New York Times:

Questions for the Clintons — Charleston, S.C. — Joseph P. Riley Jr. has been mayor of this historic and often tense city since the mid-1970s. He's a Democrat, highly respected and has worked diligently to heal racial wounds that have festered in some cases for hundreds of years.

Discussion: Election Central, Horses Mouth, JustOneMinute, The Mahablog, Norwegianity, Prairie Weather, Brendan Nyhan and Talking Points Memo

Colbert I. King / Washington Post:

Billary's Adventures in Primaryland — “Be what you would seem to be — or, if you'd like it put more simply — Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

Discussion: Firedoglake and The Carpetbagger Report

Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
It's no-win for Barack

Discussion: JustOneMinute

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Corruption Of Feminism

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, American Prospect, Doug Ross, Reuters, Fausta's blog, Blog of the Moderate Left, JustOneMinute and The Democratic Daily

John O'Connor / The State:

Signs pointing to record turnout — If voters surge, party could share winner's momentum — Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout for today's presidential primary, continuing a trend seen in other early-voting states.

Discussion: The Trail, The Caucus, Wonkette, QandO, The Strata-Sphere and New York Times

Zogby:

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Polls: Obama Solidifies Lead as Election Day Looms in South Carolina; McCain Holds Narrow Lead Over Romney in Florida; Others Far Back — 1/23-25 — 1/22-24 — 1/21-23 — 1/20-22 — Obama — 41% — 38% — 39% — 43% — Clinton — 26% — 25%

Discussion: The Page, Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice, Sister Toldjah, Pajamas Media, MyDD, Wake up America, Scared Monkeys and Pollster.com

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Rules? The Clintons Don't Need No Stinkin' Rules! — The Democratic National Committee stripped Michigan and Florida of its delegates for violating scheduling rules for their primaries. It took 365 delegates off the table and forced candidates to stop campaigning in the two vital states.

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, A Blog For All, The Moderate Voice, Outside The Beltway, The Corner, Associated Press and Macsmind

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

A Stress-Filled Week Shows Obama With a Blend of Humor and Fire — CLEMSON, S.C. — On the fifth day, Senator Barack Obama chose humor. — “When I was 20 points down, I was a fine young man. The Clintons couldn't say enough nice things about me,” Mr. Obama said, that familiar wide smile spreading across his face.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC and Brendan Nyhan

Chris Frates / The Politico:

Clinton pursues selective strategy in S.C. — Columbia, S.C. - With polls showing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lagging behind Sen. Barack Obama here, the Clinton campaign is concentrating on competing hard in selected congressional districts in an effort to keep Obama from running up the score in Saturday's primary.

Discussion: About.com US Politics, Riehl World View and New York Times

Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
No problems with machines, weather

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …

CNN: Obama, Edwards have a lot on the line in South Carolina

SurveyUSA:
UPDATE 2: So It's All Settled Then: Obama Will Win Tomorrow's SC Primary.

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, Taegan Goddard's …, Open Left and Pollster.com

Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:

He Didn't Give at the Office — Remember that picture of Yasser Arafat, blood donor? — Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Hot Air, Gateway Pundit and Democracy Project

The Big Trunk / Power Line:

HE DIDN'T GIVE AT THE OFFICE — This week we've seen the news services become pure instruments of terrorist propaganda on behalf of Hamas. As Noah Pollak and Pajamas Media pointed out, even Time jumped in to lend a hand. Rest assured that the organs of the mainstream media will not pause …

Discussion: Reuters and Pajamas Media

Mark Steyn / The Corner: If it doesn't bleed, it still leads

philly.com:

Nude Buttocks May Cost ABC $1.4 Million — WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue. — The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower.

Discussion: Eschaton, TigerHawk and Suburban Guerrilla

Gail Collins / New York Times:

Heeere's Rudy! — “As I've pointed out over and over again ...” Rudy Giuliani said this week at a press conference in a South Florida suburb. — The great Russell Baker once observed that when a reporter finds himself writing “Once again this year ...” it's time to look for a new beat.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com:
Attorney General Edwards?

Discussion: Power Line, Sister Toldjah and Donklephant

New York Times:

Société Générale's Sales May Have Incited Market Plunge — PARIS — As panic swept European markets on Monday, word spread that a big hedge fund was in trouble and dumping stocks. — Someone was selling, all right — Société Générale.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Grasping Reality … and The Big Picture

Garry Wills / New York Times:

Two Presidents Are Worse Than One — SENATOR Hillary Clinton has based her campaign on experience — 35 years of it by her count. That must include her eight years in the White House. — Some may debate whether those years count as executive experience.

Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Carpetbagger Report and TPMCafe blogs

Matthew Yglesias:

Union Share Rising — Some interesting news on the labor front as it seems that the proportion of the work force that belongs to a union went up last year for the first time since the BLS started tracking this stuff in the early 1980s — from 12 percent of the workforce to 12.1 percent.

Discussion: Daily Kos and Democratic National Committee