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Tonight’s the Night: [Michael
Calderone, Politico]: “But
one postponement and some grudging acceptance later, the CNN/ YouTube-sponsored
debate — taking place Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
— could display just how far the Republicans have come in embracing new media.”

Spinning Tales: [Janet
Elder, The New York
Times]: “It was inevitable. A poll comes out and it dominates the news
and changes the way people are thinking about the campaign. That’s just what
happened last week when ABC News and The Washington Post released a poll of Iowa caucus goers.”

Follow the Money: [Ben
Smith, Politico]: As
New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of
thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was
beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to
previously undisclosed government records.

He’s No Chuck Norris,
But: [Michael D. Shear, The
Washington Post]: “Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee won the
endorsement of Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of the late Christian Coalition
founder, boosting further his efforts to woo evangelical voters and Christian
conservatives in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.”

Lifeless: [Jim
Kuhnhenn, AP]:
“A Republican group that backs abortion rights will start an ad campaign this
weekend in Iowa and New
Hampshire portraying Mitt
Romney as a flip-flopper and drawing attention to a questionnaire
he filled out in 2002 endorsing legal abortions.”

 --Ben Crair

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