The Mini-Note

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Friday, April 6, 2007

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MUST-READS:

New York Times' Abby Goodnough: "In a Break From the Past, Florida Will Let Felons Vote" LINK

Politco's Mike Allen: "Fred Thompson Gears Up" LINK

Wall Street Journal's Mary Lu Carnevale: "Look for McCain, Clinton To Spend a Storm As Rivals Flex Muscles" LINK

New York Times' Marc Santora: "Giuliani Reaffirms That He Would Not Seek Abortion Changes"LINK

The State's Aaron Gould Sheinin: "Giuliani downplays abortion issue in S.C." LINK

New York Post's Maggie Haberman: "Rudy Confirms He'll Snip Biz Tie"LINK

New York Times' Michael Luo: "Is Romney a Hunter? Depends on What Hunt Is" LINK

Washington Post's Michael D. Shear: "For Candidate Romney, This Dog Might Not Hunt"LINK

Indianapolis Star's Diana Penner "Romney distances himself from Bush: GOP presidential candidate brings his campaign to Indy for fundraiser"LINK

New York Times' David Kirkpatrick: "Romney Used His Wealth to Enlist Richest Donors" LINK

Boston Herald's Dave Wedge: "Poll finds Romney, McCain tied in N.H."LINK

Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas: "Newt Gingrich Tries To Translate His Remarks on YouTube"LINK

Daily News: "Dems plan 6 debates to pick Prez hopeful"LINK

Salon's Walter Shapiro: "Edwards Live"LINK

Washington Post's Dana Milbank: "The Right Dusts Off Its 'Impeach Clinton' Buttons"LINK

Des Moines Register's Jason Clayworth & Thomas Beaumont: "Obama: Health system revamp could help pay for more coverage"LINK

Chicago Sun Times Lynn Sweet: "Obama's new HQ has room to move"LINK

Daily News' Celeste Katz: "Obama returning to N.Y. gold mine"LINK

Washington Times' Stephen Dinan: "Obama showing boosts Dodd, Richardson" LINK

Boston Globe's Scot Lehigh: "New Mexico's man on the move" LINK

Associated Press' Andrew DeMillo: "Huckabee says GOP owes Clinton apology if character overlooked"LINK

Des Moines Register's Lisa Rossi: "Brownback encourages reform of welfare system"LINK

Union Leader's John DiStaso: "Former Wisconsin governor eyes grassroots NH campaign"LINK

McClatchy Newspapers' Matt Stearns and Steven Thomma: "Week's events provide major shakeup of `08 field"LINK

Washington Post's Michael Abramowitz: "For Bush's Staff Chief, A Thorny First Year" LINK

Washington Times' Gregory Lopes: "White House backs stem-cell bill" LINK

New York Post's Ian Bishop: "VP Spanks Nancy for 'Behavior' ProblemLINK

San Francisco Chronicle's Tom Chorneau: "Statewide Vote On Iraq?: Perata's advisory bill would call for immediate Iraq pullout"LINK

Washington Post's Lyndsey Layton: "Rep. Putnam Stays on Message" LINK

Washington Times' Christina Bellantoni: "Liberals push to impeach Bush" LINK

Los Angeles Times' Stephanie Simon: "Blogging for Jesus, political junkies on CBN: A journalist for Pat Robertson's TV network has a following among handicappers of the presidential race" LINK