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New Arrangements
FairTax rejiggerings in Huckabee's Iowa. Federalism backfires on Fred. Romney's interest in Al Jazeera. An NEA head prefers Obama.
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The decision by Iowa’s National Right to Life Committee to remain
neutral in the GOP caucuses was a huge blow to the
Fred
Thompson
campaign, which had been counting on the group’s
support. In fact, even before the NRLC’s national endorsement of
Thompson, his campaign had been talking to some Iowa NRLC’s
supporters, who had previously been supporting Sen.
Sam
Brownback
, about joining their campaign.
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But a rival campaign — believed to be Sen. John McCain’s, which was endorsed by Brownback — swooped in and blocked it.
McCain’s campaign is said to have exerted a great deal of energy to ensure that the Iowa NRLC did not follow its national leadership.
p> DOWN AND DIRTY br> The Romney campaign has continued to shop negative stories about former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to reporters on the road and in the national media. Earlier in the week, the Romney team was pushing stories about Giuliani’s relationship to a Roman Catholic priest suspected of being part of a sexual abuse scandal in New York. And the campaign continues to push storylines around indicted former Giuliani partner, Bernard Kerik .
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We are getting new arrangements every day. I feel tired