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It’s about that time.  A few weeks ago, you cursed yourself for not buying your ticket home for Thanksgiving sooner. “How could I have waited this long?” you lament, as you reluctantly enter the 3 digit code on the back of your credit card.  If your family only knew how …

Matt Dornic vs. Greta Van Susteren Round 1, Chris Cillizza promised more political rap dances, Emily Heil is a bad ass, 100% shameless, Congressional art, Twitter makes the world smaller, J-E-T-S = B-U-C-S, is this guy stopping by soon?, the Atlantic is gearing up, Tom Rooney thinks Big Ben is …

How do you start your morning? Here are a few of our faves with today’s highlights: Chris Cillizza’s Morning Fix Polling shows Democrats losing health care PR fight Democrats are losing the public relations fight over the health care overhaul Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook TIME Person of the Year 2009 …

Yes, we realize this has been on the magazine rack at Whole Foods for days and drove Beltway dinner conversations last weekend – but just like the rest of Washington, we love lists — and this one is now online and linkable . Washingtonian: 50 Top Journalists 2009 Did Garrett …

While appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday, General Wesley Clark said of Sen. John McCain: “I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”  [Wowsers] As if that wasn’t enough, he went on to say that McCain had never held “executive …

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Politico (Andrews), “the so-called “Chesapeake Primary” isn’t until Feb. 12 Politico (JoMa), “Shouldn’t it be called the Chesapeake Primary?” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (during an interview with WaPo’s Pershing), “Some people might want to call it the ‘Chesapeake Primary.’”