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LOTT

Lott Courted By Senator-turned-lobbyist

By Paul Kane
Washington Post
November 28, 2007

Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) is a wanted man out on K Street, as he has many lobbying shops seeking to transform Lott into the first modern-era senator to quit midterm to shill for corporate clients…

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THE FIELD

CBS Cancels Democratic Debate

By Katharine Q. Seelye
New York Times
November 28, 2007

It looks like the Dec. 10 Democratic debate on CBS is off now because of the writers’ strike…
Writers’ Strike Leads to End of Debate Plan

By Bill Carter
New York Times
November 29, 2007

The Democratic National Committee announced that it was canceling the debate among Democratic presidential candidates scheduled for Dec. 10…

Health Care For All?

Washington Post
November 28, 2007

The stakes in Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's current debate over health care are fairly straightforward: all or nothing. All, as in Clinton's description of her universal plan that offers coverage to everybody. Nothing, as in the lack of enforcement that Obama says Clinton has outlined to make sure that her universal plan actually works…

OBAMA

Obama Invests in Feb. 5 Strategy

By Chris CillizzaWashington Post
November 28, 2007

When 2008 morphed into the fast-track campaign, it was broadly assumed that the slew of big states holding primaries on Feb. 5 would play into the hands of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Her name recognition alone, this theory held, would give her a huge advantage over her lesser-known rivals for the nomination…

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THE DEBATE

YouTube Debate Raises Stakes

A Wall Street Journal Online News Roundup
November 28, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The Republican debate got under way Wednesday with a testy exchange in which Rudy Giuliani accused Mitt Romney of employing illegal immigrants at his home and running a "sanctuary mansion."

G.O.P. Rivals Exchange Jabs in Testy Debate

By Michael Cooper and Marc Santora
New York Times
November 29, 2007

The Republican candidates confronted one another in testy encounters that reflected the wide-open nature of the race in the final sprint toward the Iowa caucuses…

Republicans Battle in Florida

By Chris Cillizza
Washington Post
November 28, 2007

The eight Republican candidates for president engaged in a rhetorical free-for-all tonight with frontrunners and long shots alike challenging one another over their conservative credentials and seeming inconsistencies in past public statements…

Candidates get aggressive, but civilly

By Linda Feldmann
Christian Science Monitor
November 29, 2007

Five weeks before the primaries begin, presidential contenders are taking some substantial swipes at one another…

Romney, Giuliani spar in debate

Associated Press
November 28, 2007

The testy exchange at the start of the CNN-YouTube Republican debate signals the immigration issue's volatility in the GOP…

GOP candidates spar over immigration issue

By Kathy Kiely
USA Today
November 29, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Eight Republican presidential contenders clashed Wednesday over immigration, interrogation techniques for prisoners and the Iraq war in a sharp-elbowed debate filled with pointed and personal attacks…

GIULIANI

City Said to Have Paid Bills as Giuliani Affair Began

By William K. Rashbaum
New York Times
November 29, 2007

Late in his tenure as mayor of New York, Rudolph W. Giuliani billed tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses to little-known city agencies as he was beginning an extramarital affair, a political Web site reported…

Rudy responds to billing issue

Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
November 28, 2007

Rudy Giuliani tonight denied that he made any effort to hide security costs that might have resulted from visits he made…

HUCKABEE

Huckabee's Surge Stirs the Pot in Iowa

By Laura Meckler
Wall Street Journal
November 29, 2007

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Republican presidential race is becoming even more unstable, as a surging Mike Huckabee has caught up in Iowa with Mitt Romney, long seen as the front-runner in the first-in-the-nation caucuses…

Huckabee rocks the GOP candidate image

By Ariel Sabar
Christian Science Monitor
November 29, 2007

Where aw-shucks meets off-kilter: A 50-something preacher-turned-presidential-contender can be cool…

Huckabee, as usual, scores with a quip

Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
November 28, 2007

What would Jesus have done? Probably chuckle…

McCAIN

No buildup in support for McCain

By Michael Finnegan and Stuart Silverstein
Los Angeles Times
November 28, 2007

He favored the troop increase that has led to a drop in Iraq violence, but not to a surge in his polling numbers…

PAUL

Ron Paul Fans in Florida

By Marc Santora
New York Times
November 28, 2007

By land, by air and by sea, the disciples of Ron Paul converged on the debate hall here in Saint Petersburg, Fla…

ROMNEY

G.O.P. Pro-Choice Group Releases Anti-Romney Ads

By Michael Luo
New York Times
November 28, 2007

The ads, which will begin running Sunday in Iowa and New Hampshire, attack Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper on the issue of abortion…

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A Fund-Raising Rainmaker Arises Online

By Leslie Wayne
New York Times
November 29, 2007

Two youthful computer whizzes are quietly trying to change how political campaigns raise money, netting millions of dollars for Democrats in the process…