Subject: '08 Election Daily News Clips - 12/04
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:05:54 -0500

'08 Election Daily News Clips
December 4th, 2007

Candidate Tracking:

9am  Romney: Meet and Greet in Windham, NH
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9:30am  Huckabee: Meet and Greet in Newton, IA
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10am  Romney: Town Hall in Raymond, NH
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11:25am  McCain: Meet and Greet in Peterborough, NH
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11:45am  Thompson: Meet and Greet in Spartenburg, SC
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12pm  Romney: Luncheon in Concord, NH
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1pm  Huckabee: Meet and Greet in Des Moines, IA
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1:45pm  Thompson: Meet and Greet in Greer, SC
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2:15pm  McCain: Town Hall in Keene, NH
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4pm  Huckabee: Availability in Des Moines, IA
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4:30pm  Romney: Meet and Greet in Meredith, NH
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5:30pm  Thompson: Meet and Greet in Greenville, SC
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7pm  McCain: Town Hall in Hooksett, NH
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7pm  Huckabee: Speech in Des Moines, IA
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News Clips:

Giuliani:
Giuliani Quit Role at His Firm (Wall Street Journal 12/04/07)
Rudy Giuliani is no longer chairman and chief executive of Giuliani  
Partners LLC, the consulting firm he founded five years ago after  
leaving the New York mayor's office.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119673921127412818.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Poll: Giuliani, Clinton support slips a month from first votes (USA  
Today 12/03/07)
WASHINGTON — National support for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and  
Republican Rudy Giuliani significantly eroded during the past month, a  
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds. The sign of volatility in both parties  
comes a month before the Iowa caucuses open the presidential primary  
season.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-12-03-poll-clinton-giuliani_N.htm

Giuliani Shows His Claws on Spending (US News 12/03/07)
Rudy Giuliani shifts from military hawk to budget hawk in a commentary  
piece in today's Wall Street Journal. Among his ideas to cut spending:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2007/12/3/giuliani-shows-his-claws-on-spending.html

Giuliani Assails 'Fair Tax' Plan (AP 12/03/07)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani  
criticized the "fair tax" plan that has been touted by rival candidate  
Mike Huckabee on Monday, saying it could hurt home buyers.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ie0AXT5wT2MAtnVwJEOoBbjCeEBAD8TA7PV00

Giuliani: Lack Of Choice Ruining U.S. Education System (CBS News  
12/03/07)
Campaigning in Greensboro, N.C., Monday, Rudy Giuliani animatedly  
attacked the legitimacy of today's education system, saying government  
bureaucrats telling parents where to educate their children is the  
main reason behind the deterioration of K-12 education in America.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/12/03/politics/horserace/entry3568085.shtml

Presidential Hopeful Giuliani Stumps In Greensboro (Yahoo News 12/03/07)
Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani made a campaign stop in the  
Greensboro this morning, speaking at a "North Carolina Women For Rudy"  
event on the campus of NC A&T. About 600 supporters packed the Alumni  
Center to hear the Republican and former New York City mayor.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/wxii/20071203/lo_wxii/14760319

Giuliani Courts Norquist (Washington Post 12/03/07)
The courtship of Grover Norquist -- the influential head of Americans  
for Tax Reform -- continues apace. The latest development is an  
exchange of letters between Norquist and former New York City Mayor  
Rudy Giuliani today.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/12/giuliani_courts_norquist.html?nav=rss_blog

Romney:
Romney seeks to allay suspicion over his Mormon beliefs (Guardian  
12/04/07)
Mitt Romney yesterday moved to dampen suspicion among Republican  
voters about his Mormon beliefs and recapture his frontrunner status  
for the party's nomination by announcing he will deliver an address on  
faith and American society.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,331442302-124908,00.html

Romney's JFK moment (LA Times 12/04/07)
Washington is atwitter. Mitt Romney will give a "JFK speech"  
accounting for his Mormonism the way then-Sen. John F. Kennedy dealt  
with his Catholicism.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg4dec04,0,3318303.column?coll=la-opinion-columnists

Romney promises return to ‘Reagan’ (The Telegraph 12/04/07)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said if elected, he will  
pursue a “Reagan Zone of Economic Freedom” to galvanize trade with  
like-minded countries and isolate China because it manipulates its  
currency and refuses to honor U.S. patents and copyrights.
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Clinton, Romney top choices among likely Iowa caucus goers in new ISU  
poll (ISU News 12/03/07)
AMES, Iowa -- With exactly one month to go until the Jan. 3 Iowa  
caucuses, a new Iowa State University Poll of 1,416 registered Iowa  
voters finds Hillary Clinton leading among likely Democratic caucus  
attendees, while Mitt Romney has a slim lead over Mike Huckabee among  
Republican caucus goers.
http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2007/dec/caucus.shtml

Mormons, Muslims, and Mitt Romney (The Daily Iowan 12/03/07)
Last week, the Christian Science Monitor published an opinion piece by  
Mansoor Ijaz, covering Ijaz's thoughts and now-scattered hopes on Mitt  
Romney's presidential campaign. Ijaz, a former Democrat, approved of  
Romney's platform and made a $100 donation, eliciting an invitation to  
the Nevada fundraiser where the businessman proposed a question to the  
man who says he wants to run the country as a business.
http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2007/12/03/Opinions/Mormons.Muslims.And.Mitt.Romney-3126887.shtml

Romney Explains Reasons For Mormon Faith Speech (WBZ CBS Affiliate  
12/03/07)
Republican Mitt Romney, vying to become the first Mormon president,  
said Monday he decided to give a speech focused on his faith and the  
role of religion in politics because the subject is of interest in  
early voting Iowa -- where he has lost his lead in GOP presidential  
polls.
http://wbztv.com/local/local_story_336200118.html

Romney Outlines Stance on Health Care, Abortion (NPR 12/03/07)
The Republican presidential candidate discusses health care, religion  
and Roe v. Wade.
Audio: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=16846036&m=16846026

Analysis: Romney's 'Mormon speech' risk (AP 12/03/07)
In mid-November, Mitt Romney dismissed the prospect of a speech  
discussing his Mormon faith, using his businessman's bottom-line focus  
to say, "There's no particular urgency because I'm making progress in  
the states where I'm campaigning."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_po/romney_religion_speech_7

Thompson:
Thompson: 'I'm OK with the Lord, and the Lord is OK with me' (CNN  
12/03/07)
Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson Monday said he didn't  
need to apologize for his faith, despite concerns from Christian  
conservatives that he does not express his religious beliefs enough on  
the campaign trail.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/03/thompson/

Presidential candidate makes Village whistle stop (OCRegister 11/03/07)
The Republican Club of Laguna Wood Village, reputedly one of the  
largest in the nation,  sponsored a Rally for Republican Presidential  
candidate Fred Thompson Saturday in Clubhouse 3's Auditorium.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/thompson-republican-tax-1934449-former-state

Huckabee:
Huckabee Repudiates Group’s Effort (New York Times 12/04/07)
Mike Huckabee, the Republican presidential candidate, distanced his  
campaign yesterday from an independent group’s efforts to promote his  
candidacy through calls to the homes of caucusgoers in Iowa and  
through mailings.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/us/politics/04huckabee.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

What's Behind the Huckabee Surge? (TownHall 12/04/07)
Why is Mike Huckabee surging in the polls? He’s not only moved into a  
five point lead in Iowa (according to the latest Des Moines Register  
Poll) but he’s also in second place in Florida and within striking  
distance of the lead in South Carolina (which is virtually a four way  
tie).
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/c6692253-551a-45e4-ba9f-37e740fe9411

Huckabee Chafes at 'Front-Runner' Label (Washington Post 12/04/07)
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, for months cast as a "second- 
tier" candidate, now finds himself with another label he is not eager  
to have: "front-runner."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/03/AR2007120301856_pf.html

"Trust Huckabee" Tied To Huckabee Donors; Faces Legal Questions (The  
Atlantic 12/03/07)
Trust Huckabee, the new pro-Mike group that's making persuasion phone  
calls in Iowa, calls itself a project of Common Sense Issues, which is  
organized under section 501(c)4 of the tax code. An extension portion  
of the TrustHuckabee website is devoted to recruiting, signing up and  
training precinct captains.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/trust_huckabee_tied_to_huckabe.php#more

The Real Secret to Huckabee's Rise in the Polls (ABC News 12/03/07)
Last Wednesday, speaking at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, former  
Arkansas Gov. and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee said that "Divine  
providence was responsible for his recent surge in the polls in Iowa,"  
as he noted that he "is the candidate with much less capital firepower  
than his rivals."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/12/the-real-secret.html

Huckabee returns as perceived Iowa front-runner (Radio Iowa 12/03/07)
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has returned to Iowa  
after nearly a month away. It was a month which, according to recent  
public opinion polls, saw his support among Iowans grow so that  
Huckabee has been thrust into perceived front-runner status for Iowa's  
Caucuses. It happened with a low-budget Huckabee effort compared to  
the well-financed campaign of Mitt Romney who had been leading polls  
of likely Republican Caucus-goers for months.
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=A1E1F91A-DA69-2AD0-E50BDC12C733881A

In unsettled GOP field, Huckabee finds footing (USA Today 12/03/07)
He's the anti-Rudy. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, the  
Republican long shot who in a new Des Moines Register poll has surged  
to the lead for the Iowa caucuses, could hardly be more different from  
the candidate who has led the GOP field nationally all year.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-12-02-huckabee_N.htm

Rising in polls, Huckabee comes under increased scrutiny (CNN 12/03/07)
urging in polls in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Mike  
Huckabee finds himself increasingly under attack from rivals over his  
record as governor of Arkansas, particularly on taxes and immigration.  
A Des Moines (Iowa) Register poll released Sunday shows Huckabee  
leading the Republican presidential field in Iowa with the support of  
29 percent of likely caucusgoers, ahead of former Massachusetts Gov.  
Mitt Romney (24 percent) and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (13  
percent).
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/03/huckabee.record/index.html

Will Huckabee And Obama Shake Up Presidential Race In Iowa? (The  
Moderate Voice 12/03/07)
Are we now poised to see in Iowa a classic example of how all of the  
political prognostication, all of the smug, all-knowing comments of  
The Elite Talking Heads on television shows and the self-assured  
comments of blogs (including this one) will be shown to  
be….”inoperative”…and be hurriedly shoved under the rug as NEW all- 
knowing and self-assured comments come out?
http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/barack-obama/16332/will-huckabee-and-obama-shake-up-presidential-race-in-iowa/

McCain:
McCain: Don't Require Health Coverage (AP 12/03/07)
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Monday that mandating  
health insurance coverage makes about as much sense as requiring  
everyone to buy a house.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggKN95fEqa9VR153AAmzKxhQXnWAD8TA78Q00

Newspaper: McCain is 'the man to lead America;' Will voters agree?  
(CNN 12/03/07)
If Sen. John McCain is going to keep his candidacy for the White House  
alive, he has to win the New Hampshire primary on January 8. Right  
now, he's running second in one poll, fourth in another.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/03/schneider.mccain.endorsement

The Case for John McCain (PoliGazette 12/03/07)
The current state of the field of GOP contenders has once more opened  
the door for the only real and principled conservative, John McCain.
http://poligazette.com/the-case-for-john-mccain-2

Schilling to help McCain make pitch (Boston Globe 12/03/07)
John McCain will have a household name in tow when he tours New  
Hampshire on Wednesday. Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, who has  
endorsed the Arizona senator, is scheduled to appear at the Derryfield  
School in Manchester in what is being billed as a "Politics & Sports  
Town Hall Meeting."
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/12/schilling_to_he.html

John McCain Gets A Warm Response In Icy New Hampshire During Third MTV/ 
MySpace Dialogue (MTV News 12/03/07)
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Aside from the dozen or so maintenance workers scattered across the  
grounds, shoveling snow from the iced-over walkways and sprinkling  
salt wherever the lumbering snowplows couldn't reach, the Southern New  
Hampshire University campus was a ghost town on Monday (December 3).  
There were no students in the Student Center, and the student  
government offices and newspaper's headquarters were dark.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1575669/20071203/index.jhtml

McCain hopes issues go over better than jokes (Houston Chronicle  
12/03/07)
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Republican Sen. John McCain, his spirits better than his comic timing,  
told students Monday he's the best candidate for youth despite his age.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5349519.html

McCain: Genie Is Back In The Bottle, Campaign Asserts (The Atlantic  
12/03/07)
According to an internal campaign memo needlessly marked confidential  
and distributed to New Hampshire staff today, John McCain is poised  
for a precipitous rise in the polls and has with a month to go, hit  
his stride in the Granite State. "He's BAAAACk," writes Mike Dennehy,  
McCain's national political director and de-facto New Hampshire  
campaign runner.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/mccain_genie_is_back_in_the_bottle_campaign_asserts.php

McCain: I'm Old, but Best Candidate (AP 12/03/07)
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Republican Sen. John McCain, his spirits better than his comic timing,  
told students Monday he's the best presidential candidate for youth  
despite his age.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ie7BLx9TP3hyToIo5kqw40p-DBRQD8TABM9O1