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Senate Democrats Plot Push On AMT Relief in December

By John Harwood
Wall Street Journal
November 30, 2007

Senate democrats aim to pass alternative-minimum-tax relief in December…

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THE FIELD

Clinton assails Obama's healthcare plan

By Seema Mehta
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2007

She steps up criticism of her leading Democratic rival on a campaign stop in Iowa, saying his proposal betrays party principles…

Democrats cancel CBS presidential debate over strike concerns

By Matea Gold
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2007

News employees might walk out, and the Writers Guild of America might demonstrate. Candidates are loath to cross picket lines…

CLINTON

Will Kennedy’s Remarks Hog the Attention in Iowa?

By Patrick Healy
New York Times
November 29, 2007

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going to campaign for Hillary Clinton in Iowa, where he once compared hog producers to terrorists…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Clinton

Associated Press
November 29, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed for president Thursday by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist and scion of one of the nation's most prominent political families…

Kennedy endorses Clinton!!!

Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
November 29, 2007

But it's not the one Kennedy who counts…

OBAMA

Obama invokes King in Harlem visit

By Mike Dorning
Chicago Tribune
November 29, 2007

NEW YORK - Barack Obama invoked Rev. Martin Luther King's "fierce urgency of now" as he made his first visit as a presidential candidate to America's most famous black neighborhood, Harlem, venturing within sight of Bill Clinton's office to make his debut…

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THE FIELD

Republican Debate Features Web Queries, Sharp Exchanges

By Amy Schatz and June Kronholz
Wall Street Journal
November 30, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Despite some early reservations, the Republican presidential field answered questions submitted over the Internet in a debate that featured some of the sharpest attacks between the leading candidates of the campaign so far…

Blogtalk: CNN Debate Under Fire

By Kate Phillips and Ariel Alexovich
New York Times
November 29, 2007

Republican-leaning bloggers find much at fault with the CNN/YouTube debate…

CNN/YouTube Debate Breaks Ratings Record

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

Debate ratings show growing interest in the presidential race…

Gay Question Puts CNN on Defensive

By Jacques Steinberg
New York Times
November 30, 2007

CNN failed to find that a retired brigadier general who asked the Republican presidential candidates about gay men and lesbians in the military was tied to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign…

GOP YouTube debates: Good marks for new views of candidates

By Linda Feldmann
Christian Science Monitor
November 30, 2007

A new style of debating has sprung from Internet savvy, and it's beneficial to voters, experts say…

GOP debate viewers set ratings record

Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
November 29, 2007

Almost 5 million tune in to see eight men in dark suits talk a lot…

Public questions inspire combative GOP debate

By Peter Nicholas and Joe Mathews
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2007

Romney and Giuliani quickly set the tone at the CNN-YouTube forum, trading barbs on illegal immigration…

Candidates challenged on gays in military

By James Rainey
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2007

A retired officer who posed a GOP debate question on the issue turns out to be a supporter of the Clinton campaign…

GIULIANI

Citing Statistics, Giuliani Often Misses

By Michael Cooper
Wall Street Journal
November 30, 2007

Both Mitt Romney and Democrats have accused Rudolph W. Giuliani of a pattern of misleading figures and have begun to use the issue to try to undercut his credibility…

Giuliani Defends Spending on His Mayoral Security

By William K. Rashbaum and Russ Buettner
New York Times
November 30, 2007

Rudolph W. Giuliani called an account of his spending a “political hit job” as his campaign struggled to explain the billing practices…

Giuliani on Taxes, Democrats and Record as Mayor

By Julie Bosman
New York Times
November 30, 2007

In his campaign’s fourth advertisement in New Hampshire, Rudolph W. Giuliani criticizes the leading Democrats by name…

Giuliani seeks to head off cover-up question

Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2007

A report tells of shifted N.Y. security expenses at the time of his affair…

HUCKABEE

Chuck Norris: Is he Huckabee's secret weapon?

By Tina Daunt
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2007

Chuck Norris doesn't endorse candidates, he kicks them into the stratosphere…

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The Candidate's 'Catch Me if You Can'
Reporters Following Hillary Clinton on the Campaign Trail Are Covered in Dust

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post
November 30, 2007

CONCORD, N.H. -- ABC correspondent Kate Snow was ready to push through the crowd and ask Hillary Clinton a question until an aide blocked the path of Snow's sound man as he aimed his boom mike in the senator's direction…

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U.S. Seems to Soften Syria Stance
Diplomatic Shift Comes As Peace Talks Expand; 'A Different Dynamic'

By Cam Simpson and Jay Solomon
November 30, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Two days after the Bush administration moved to jump-start the Middle East peace process with talks in Annapolis, Md., there are signs that the new diplomatic campaign includes a shift in U.S. strategy: willingness to compromise with Syria, one of its most bitter regional rivals.

Bush Urges Emergency War Funds to Avoid Defense Layoffs

By William Branigin
Washington Post
November 30, 2007

President Bush warned Congress yesterday that the Pentagon soon will have to start laying off civilian employees and reducing operations at U.S. military bases unless lawmakers send him an emergency war funding bill that does not mandate troop withdrawals from Iraq…