The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

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The Romney campaign is also being credited for pushing stories about Giuliani's ties to the largest shareholder of al Jazeera TV, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, who has reportedly steered security contracts with Qatar government and a Qatar-based petroleum company to a subsidiary of Giuliani Partners.

"The Romney campaign has been the best research staff on the campaign trail now," says a source inside another campaign. "They have the money to spend to get the information they need and to get it out there."

p> THE PRINCE br> With news that Sen. Barack Obama will be endorsed by Linda Nelson , president of Iowa's State Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, the Clinton campaign is feeling heat from supporters to start going negative early and often leading into the caucus. Nelson's endorsement is personal, but it is the latest bit of momentum for Obama, who is seeing his numbers surging in Iowa and on the stump seems to be feeling it all the more. /p>

"Some of us have the impression that the Clinton campaign played a little too nice with the Obama folks, when they should have been looking to take him out much sooner and get it over with," says a Clinton supporter in New York. "Now, he's positioned to stick around for a long time and I'm at least worried that it will wear on her and weaken her in the long run."

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