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Daily Jumble: Hillary's Laugh-Free Edition

• "I believe President Bush is going to order airstrikes [on Iran] before he leaves office." Ack. [TP]

• Newsweek's not-very-helpful Iowa poll: "In other words, the odds of Obama "leading" on this poll are no better than a coin-flip, if we were to take repeated samplings of exactly the same design." [Pollster.com]

• That schtick is getting oooolddd: "The fact is that people inside the Giuliani campaign... estimate..that he has taken such calls more than 40 times in the middle of speeches, conferences and presentations to large donors." [WSJ]

• When he really should have been on the phone with... God: "Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort" [NYT]

• Blackwaters run still: "Seven House Republicans have urged Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) to postpone a hearing about Blackwater USA until the State Department and a separate commission report." [Politico]

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