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Clinton Feels Like $100 Million Bucks

ABC News' Eloise Harper and Jake Tapper Report: Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign claims to have neared the $100 million dollar mark. On the brink of 2008, the Clinton campaign announced they have raised over $100 million dollars in 2007. Clinton,...

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Obama Launches First Negative Ad

ABC News' Rick Klein and Teddy Davis Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has launched the first broadcast advertisement of the Democratic race to mention rival candidates by name, with a radio spot that escalates a long-running battle with Sen. Hillary...

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Putting the Republican in Paul's 'Revolution'

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Republican politics in Iowa and New Hampshire demand a slightly different touch than the anti-war, anti-big government "Ron Paul Revolution" that has heretofore fueled the Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate's buzz and fundraising,...

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Romney Aims to Medal in Iowa

ABC News' Matt Stuart Reports: Three days out from Iowa, Mitt Romney feels confident he'll be on Iowa's medal stand come Thursday night. Romney, R-Mass., who often cites his role in salvaging the scandal plagued 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt...

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Obama: One Man's Second Choice

ABC News' David Wright and Sunlen Miller Reports: The last question today at Barack Obama's rally in a Jefferson, Iowa high school gymnasium was unusually blunt. It came from a voter who was not a supporter of Obama's. "I'm not...

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Clinton Sharpens Rhetoric Against Rivals

ABC News' Eloise Harper Report: After three days of speaking in somber and serious tones, Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., sharpened her rhetoric against her Democratic rivals today in Keokuk, Iowa. The Senator addressed the special interest fight her opponents have...

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A Dark Cloud Over Kenya

Dana Hughes, part of our recent expansion of reporters stationed around the globe, blogs from Nairobi: I've really enjoyed the three months I've been reporting from Nairobi, Kenya. I've made good friends, seen incredible stories and have quelled my homesickness...

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What's Richardson's New Year's Resolution?

ABC News' Sarah Amos reports: With the Iowa caucus less than four days away, the early morning crowd in Ames, Iowa, was full of tough questions for Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M. The close to 300-person audience wanted straight answers to...

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Thompson Goes to the Web

ABC News' Christine Byun Reports: As candidates rush to push last minute political commercials, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is pitching to the web. "It's kind of a unique thing, but you know we do things a little differently in...

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Dodd's Pitch: Experience Equals Viability

ABC News' Donna Hunter Reports: Iowa voter Dennis Wolf walked into Four Brothers Pizzeria in Le Mars, Iowa as an Independent but he walked out a proud supporter of Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. With tears in his eyes he recalled...

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