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National Media Descends on Des Moines
thepage.time.com - 20 days ago
National Media Descends on Des Moines
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Back-to-the-future weekend. Iowa doubleheader of Pawlenty and Huckabee. Developing....

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Saturday reading: Abortion
Ben Smith's Blog — The health care bill is a mark of the remarkable, enduring strength of the anti-abortion movement. Cooper says yes, ambivalently. JMart gets a Deeds memo that doesn't look all that great in retrospect. And hits Des Moines. A former hostage goes to State. Palin's doing the Gridiron. The DNC wants a non-voting member's vote. Markos plays the vet card on Tancredo. Steele reverses himself on chasing down dissidents. And Bibi doesn't have an ...

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