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Dissecting the numbers

Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
October 27, 2007

A New Hampshire survery affirms the general sense that Democrats are more engaged in the election cycle so far than…

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CLINTON

Touching Up (And On) Feminist Roots

By Robin Givhan
Washington Post
October 28, 2007; Page M01

Feminism has come a long way since Yoko Ono performed "Cut Piece" in 1964, sitting mute on a stage as members of the audience approached her with scissors and snipped away her clothes bit by bit…

A Museum On Woodstock, With a Haircut

By Joel Achenbach
Washington Post
October 27, 2007

BETHEL, N.Y. -- It rises from the hilltop, bigger than a barn, built of stone and roofed in copper. Officially it will be the Museum at Bethel Woods, and it will be focused on the Woodstock festival, the "three days of peace and music" that took place here in August 1969. But the museum has been tagged by critics with a different name: the Hippie Museum…

EDWARDS

Edwards Proposes Two-Year Delay On Ads for New Prescription Drugs

Associated Press
October 28, 2007

LACONIA, N.H. -- Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said Sunday that prescription drug companies should wait two years to begin advertising their new products to consumers…

Edwards Goes Courting in New Hampshire

By Christine Hauser
New York Times
October 28, 2007

What's on voters' minds? The sky -- the moon, actually -- is the limit…

Maytag is Edwards' soapbox

By John McCormick
Los Angeles Times
October 27, 2007

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards criticized executive pay and declining worker benefits Friday in an economic-policy speech timed to the closing of an iconic Iowa manufacturer…

From Behind, Edwards Runs At Full Speed In Iowa
Clinton's Shadow Hasn't Cooled the Man and His Fans

By Libby Copeland
Washington Post
October 27, 2007

DES MOINES -- Concerning the 2008 election, a few technical points to keep in mind: Voters haven't actually voted yet, and Hillary Clinton hasn't actually won the Democratic nomination…

Student Paper Upsets the Edwards Camp

By Jim Rutenberg
New York Times
October 27, 2007

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 — In this rough-and-tumble campaign season, the major presidential campaigns have sought to leave no charge unanswered from wherever it may come. Even, it now seems, if the fight takes them into the realm of student journalism…

Edwards Offers Savings Plan

By Christine Hauser
New York Times
October 27, 2007

Former Senator John Edwards proposed yesterday that rules governing retirement savings be revised by creating new 401(k)-type accounts that employees could carry from job to job, and that the government match workers’ contributions to the accounts, dollar for dollar, up to $500 a year…

OBAMA

Obama Promises a Forceful Stand Against Clinton

By Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny
New York Times
October 28, 2007

Senator Barack Obama said he would start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more forcefully, in response to concerns about his lack of assertiveness…

Obama Ratchets Up Criticism of Clinton
New Yorker 'Ducking' Social Security Issue

By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post
October 28, 2007

Sen. Barack Obama yesterday slammed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for "ducking the issue" of ensuring the solvency of Social Security and signaled that he will take a more aggressive approach to the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination…

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GIULIANI

Flip-Flopping All the Way to the Other Team

By Selena Roberts
New York Times
October 28, 2007

Why would Rudy Giuliani venture up the Mass Pike and into Ted Kennedy’s stomping grounds when it would be more politically prudent to pander to the faith-based Rockies?

Giuliani's Bid to Woo New Hampshire Independents Centers on Health Care

By Chris Cillizza And Shailagh Murray
Washington Post
October 28, 2007

Independents will make all the difference in New Hampshire…

Rudy a Lefty? Yeah, Right.

By David Greenberg
Washington Post
Sunday, October 28, 2007; Page B01

You wouldn't know it from reading the papers, but the favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination is a confirmed right-winger. On issues such as free speech and religion, secrecy and due process, civil rights and civil liberties, pornography and democracy, this moralist and self-styled lawman has exhibited all the key hallmarks of Bush-era conservatism…

How Giuliani tried to control his NYC legacy

By Andrew Zajac
Chicago Tribune
October 28, 2007

WASHINGTON - Shortly before Rudy Giuliani left the New York mayor's office in 2001, close associates worked out an unprecedented and controversial deal to transfer his mayoral papers from City Hall to a private, tax-exempt foundation, the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs…

HUCKABEE

Huckabee: Republican rock star

By Louise Roug
Los Angeles Times
October 28, 2007

The presidential candidate and his band hit the stage in Iowa to celebrate rising poll numbers and raising more money than ever…

ROMNEY

Romney Says Giuliani's Support Will Fade

Associated Press
October 27, 2007

JOHNSTON, Iowa -- Mitt Romney says the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination will come down to Rudy Giuliani and a more conservative challenger. Like Mitt Romney. It's no surprise that Giuliani is doing well in national polls of Republicans, Romney said Friday, because candidates with more conservative views on social issues such as abortion and gay rights are splitting the support of like-minded voters…

Romney bashes Clinton policies as 'Hillary's House of Horrors'

Associated Press
October 28, 2007

FORT MYERS, Florida (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney offered a verbal tour of "Hillary's House of Horrors" on Saturday, conjuring images of Halloween spook houses to underscore his criticisms of Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton…

THOMPSON

Fred Thompson vs. the moonshiners

By Joe Mathews
Los Angeles Times
October 28, 2007

WOODBURY, TENN -- The case appeared to be open and shut…

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COLBERT

Getting the Last Laugh?

By Christine Hauser
New York Times
October 28, 2007

With a straight face, the Edwards campaign sets out to set the record straight about Stephen Colbert…

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Iowa Democrats Move Caucuses to Jan. 3

Associated Press
October 29, 2007

The Iowa Democratic Party voted today to move their caucuses to Jan. 3, the same date Iowa Republicans picked earlier this month…

New Hispanic Voters in Iowa Push Democrats Into Balancing Act

By Leslie Wayne
New York Times
October 29, 2007

The growing presence of Hispanics poses a challenge to Democrats who are eager to court a new interest group in Iowa but wary of offending conservative white voters concerned about immigration…

South Carolina Primary Shapes Up as a Main Contest for the Republican Field

By Michael Luo
New York Times
October 27, 2007

Since 1980, each victor in the South Carolina primary has gone on to become the Republican nominee…

Fla. Dems hope to boost '08 nominee despite infighting

By Bill Cotterell
Gannett News Service
October 28, 2007

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Florida Democrats, "bruised and battered" by years of Republican rule and some nasty infighting, confidently promised Saturday to reunite after the Jan. 29 presidential primary and deliver 27 crucial electoral votes to their national ticket…

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A Divide on Terror Terms
GOP Candidates Invoke Islam More; Defining 'Jihad'

By Elizabeth Holmes
Wall Street Journal
October 29, 2007

A divide is emerging on the presidential campaign trail over battling terrorists: how exactly to label the fight. While Democrats tend to talk about terrorism in general, Republicans increasingly pin the threat directly on Islam…

Health Sector Puts Its Money on Democrats

By Raymond Hernandez and Robert Pear
Wall Street Journal
October 29, 2007

In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry…

On the Road: A Week With ‘Values’ Voters

By Michael Luo
New York Times
October 28, 2007

In a week spent on the trail, Christian conservatives speak their minds about the field of G.O.P. candidates and what matters to them…

Horse Race Prevails in Campaign Reporting

By Katharine Q. Seelye
New York Times
October 29, 2007

A study says the news media have provided much more positive coverage of Democratic presidential candidates than of Republicans…

The Evangelical Crackup

By David D. Kirkpatrick
New York Times
October 28, 2007

After the 2004 election, evangelical Christians looked like one of the most powerful and cohesive voting blocs in America. Three years later their leadership is split along generational and theological lines. How did it all come apart?

Naming the acolytes

Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
October 28, 2007

So what do you call the acolytes? Hillaryites? Romneyans? Rudees? Obamans? As if there weren't enough decisions to be made…

Fox Orders Candidates to Stop Using Its Images

By Marc Santora
New York Times
October 27, 2007

The Fox News Channel sent notices to the campaigns of the leading Republican presidential candidates yesterday ordering them to stop using images from their Fox appearances in campaign advertisements…

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Political Sway at Guantanamo?
Former Prosecutor Says Pressure Began With Australian's Case

By Jess Bravin
Wall Street Journal
October 27, 2007; Page A4

WASHINGTON -- In March, a plea bargain guaranteed Australian David Hicks, an inmate at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, his freedom by year's end. The deal helped Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a U.S. ally, avoid a bruising domestic controversy…

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Webb Seen as a Potential 2008 Running Mate

By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post
October 28, 2007; Page A04

Just 10 months into his first term in elected office, James Webb found himself on the podium for one of the most coveted speaking slots in Democratic politics…