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Behind a blitz of warm holiday ads, the presidential candidates are taking off
the gloves in preparation for tough '08 primary fights.
Will Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)'s recent attacks on Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
backfire with voters? Radio talk show hosts Ed Schultz and Mark Green will join
us to analyze the latest campaign action.
The new NBC/Wall St. Journal poll shows the '08 GOP race still has no clear
frontrunners. Tonight we'll hear from key campaign advisers for two of the top
Republican contenders -- the Huckabee campaign's Ed Rollins and the Romney
campaign's Ron Kaufman - about why their candidate is positioned to win the
nomination.
Would a presidency with self-proclaimed Christian leader Mike Huckabee blur the
country's separation between church and state? Beliefnet.com's David Kuo and
Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council will discuss.
Plus, how did Pres. Bush respond to talk of his father taking part in a
hypothetical Clinton administration? And who has former '08 candidate Tom
Tancredo decided to endorse?
We'll break down these stories and more in our Politics Fix with MSNBC's Joe
Scarborough, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell and the Wall Street
Journal's John Harwood.
For the latest on all of today's political news, go to the best political
website www.politics.msnbc.com, powered by NBC News and the National Journal.
And, don't forget to check out NBC's "First Read" and MSNBC.com's political
calendar.
Vidhya Murugesan compiled the "Hardball Briefing" from Washington, D.C.
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