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USA Today
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Oct 22, 07 4:16 AM CDT
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Republican presidential hopefuls fought bitterly over who has the best conservative credentials in an Orlando, Fla., forum last night. Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee cited their conservative executive experience, while John McCain and Fred Thompson touted conservative Senate voting records. Giuliani generally sparred with Thompson, and McCain with Romney.
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Nation
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Oct 21, 07 8:09 PM CDT
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Hillary Clinton has another backer as mysterious as the now-discredited Norman Hsu—this one a businessman who goes way back with George W. Bush. The Nation examines Clinton's ties to Alan Quasha, the Harken Energy magnate who bailed out the younger Bush’s oil company in 1986. Quasha now has an odd, under-the-radar connection to the Clinton campaign.
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Newsweek
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Oct 21, 07 1:40 PM CDT
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People curious about Hillary Clinton’s role in her husband’s White House won’t find anything helpful in his presidential library, Newsweek reports. Less than 1% of the 98 million documents and emails there are public, though all are subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Bill Clinton instructed librarians to “consider withholding” anything related to “policy, personal, or political” matters.
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Associated Press
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Oct 20, 07 4:06 PM CDT
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Conservatives at the Value Voters Summit in Washington, DC, gave Giuliani polite applause today as he admitted his moderate-to-liberal views on abortion and other issues, the AP reports. He stressed shared stands on Iraq, school choice and conservative judges, but kept mum about gay marriage. "We may not always agree," he said. "I don't always agree with myself. But I will give you reason to trust me."
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Politico
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Oct 20, 07 12:36 PM CDT
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Fred Thompson's campaign is making headway with conservative Christian voters, according to new polling data reported in Politico . Thompson, whose late campaign start was much maligned by Republican insiders, trails Giuliani by 8 percentage points among all Republicans, but he leads 29% to 19% among weekly Republican churchgoers—a group that holds much sway.
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Los Angeles Times
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Oct 19, 07 2:47 PM CDT
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign coffers are benefiting from unlikely and possibly illegal sources, an LA Times investigation reveals. Checks for four-figure amounts are coming from dishwashers, immigrants unable to vote, and other unlikely donors in New York’s Chinatown, some of whom report feeling coerced by neighborhood associations. Other donors were impossible to track down, even with their neighbors’ help.
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Washington Post
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Oct 19, 07 11:55 AM CDT
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Crowded as the GOP field may be, the religious right can't seem to find a congenial candidate. The Washington Post reports that evangelicals—today beginning a 2-day summit—remain unmoved no matter how sweetly Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and John McCain come calling. And the idea of a Rudy Guiliani nomination has a few threatening to back a third-party candidate.
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The Hill
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Oct 16, 07 4:05 PM CDT
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GOP rivals have found their latest Clinton attack material, a report the Dem frontrunner listened to an illegal tape of a cellphone conversation in 1992—and they're asking how that squares with her stance on government surveillance. A book released in June alleges Hillary heard opponents discussing a Bill mistress, and her camp hasn’t denied it, The Hill reports.
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Associated Press
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Oct 16, 07 10:25 AM CDT
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The $35 million Hillary Clinton has on hand for her primary campaign edges out the $32 million in Barack Obama’s coffers, according to financial reports acquired by the AP. But both have almost three times the money of any other campaign—Rudy Giuliani leads Republicans with just $11.6 million, less than third-place Democrat John Edwards.
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Politico
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Oct 15, 07 12:27 PM CDT
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The gloves are off in the Republican presidential race, with the McCain and Giuliani campaigns forming a tacit alliance to take down Mitt Romney, the Politico observes. McCain said today that, unlike Romney, “I’m not going to con you,” while Giuliani ruthlessly derided Romney for saying a president should “sit down with your attorneys” before deciding to attack Iran.
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Reuters
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Oct 14, 07 4:01 PM CDT
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Hillary's up by 21 points over Obama in New Hampshire, a new poll says, and Mitt's got a 6% edge on Giuliani. More than half of state Dems say Hillary has the best shot at beating a Republican in 2008, but roles reverse on the GOP side: "While Mitt Romney is ahead in the horserace, many voters think the betting money should be on Rudy Giuliani next November," says a pollster.
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New York Times
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Oct 14, 07 2:22 PM CDT
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South Carolina’s real Democratic debate is going down in the hair salon, where the New York Times informally polled black women on their split allegiances to Hillary and Obama. Maternal fondness for Barack may work against him—one won’t vote for him because “I fear that they just would kill him.” Black women are a crucial 29% of the state's primary voters.
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Associated Press
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Oct 13, 07 7:10 PM CDT
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Advantage, Obama: He's already winning blue collar hearts in Iowa before Hillary shows up for her caucus drive. He can also talk agriculture and education with ease because Iowa's troubles resemble Illinois'. And vets he meets there resemble his grandad, a WWII soldier from Kansas. Yet the big city lawmaker still needs reminders of Iowa life: "Hogs matter to Iowans!" is scrawled across an article in his office.
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Associated Press
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Oct 12, 07 11:33 AM CDT
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Hillary Clinton told a voter in an apple orchard yesterday that she would negotiate with Iran “with no conditions”—the very statement for which she took Barack Obama to the woodshed in July, calling him "naive." The difference? Her campaign tells the AP she doesn't agree with Obama that the US "should precommit to meeting directly with Ahmadinejad.”
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Salon
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Oct 11, 07 12:26 PM CDT
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Former President Clinton rakes in cash for his foundation, while a future President Clinton would have to deal with the appearance of influence-buying. Bill’s foundation isn’t required to divulge donors, and there's no apparent limit on a first spouse’s fundraising, but Salon reports many Clinton Foundation givers among Hillary’s elite—and says suspicions of impropriety are inevitable.
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Election Central
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Oct 11, 07 10:00 AM CDT
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Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney couldn't seem to get out of the ring yesterday, even though their tussle at Tuesday's debate was over. The campaigns kept it going with press-release jabs, each rehashing his opponent's debate language on Iran and each comparing the other to John Kerry, notes Election Central’s Greg Sargent. Team Rudy hit first, blasting Romney for saying he’d check with lawyers about approval for air strikes: “Another Massachusetts politician also wanted a national security test.”
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Washington Post
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Oct 10, 07 10:12 AM CDT
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Hillary Clinton fought back today against opponents who call her a polarizing force, telling the Washington Post she's uniquely equipped to forge a centrist coalition. “You can't just wake up and say, ‘Let's all just hold hands.’” But, “You've got to demonstrate that you're not going to be deterred by (partisanship).”
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Los Angeles Times
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Oct 10, 07 5:27 AM CDT
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In the first debate of his nascent quest for the White House, Fred Thompson stuck to a traditional Republican agenda as the gloves of rivals Mitt Romney and Rudolph Giuliani came off in some of the sharpest clashes so far. The LA Times reports that Thompson, a former senator, appeared visibly nervous but grew in confidence as the debate went on.
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New York Times
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Oct 9, 07 6:10 PM CDT
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Today Hillary unveiled a new plan, vowing to help Americans retire by matching $1,000 of their savings with federal funds. She says feds can match 50-100% of the first $1,000 saved in a 401(k)-style account, depending on one's income. She plans to pay the $20-$25 billion tab by freezing the estate tax, but the New York Times warns that today's lawmakers would nix such a move.
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Los Angeles Times
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Oct 8, 07 4:05 PM CDT
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While cautioning that it's still early, the LA Times reports that Hillary Clinton’s frontrunner status owes largely to her dominance among groups that are stalwarts in the Democratic nominating process. Barack Obama rules among the young and affluent, but likely primary voters are women, seniors, and blue-collar voters—all Hillary-friendly demographics.
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