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(CNN) — The Race to '08 continues even as the rest of the country turns its attention to friends, family, and food over the upcoming holidays.

In Friday's audio podcast, CNN's Chris Chandler and Dick Uliano discuss Rudy Giuliani's recent hospital stay, the accolades former President Bill Clinton is lavishing on his wife while stumping for her on the campaign trail, and the early date of the Iowa caucuses — just two days after start of the new year.

– CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

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(CNN) — Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and former senator John Edwards are in a virtual three-way tie in Iowa, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Thursday.

In this Race to '08 podcast, CNN Radio's Bob Constantini speaks with CNN Correspondent Jessica Yellin who is in Iowa covering the Democratic presidential primary race.

Listen to Yellin discuss the new CNN poll, the issue of leadership style among the Democratic White House hopefuls, and what the Democrats are doing to draw distinctions between themselves and their rivals for their party's nomination.

Related video: For Dems, a matter of style

– CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

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(CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, recently rolled out a new strategy intended to soften her image with voters.

In today's Race to '08 audio podcast, CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley talks with CNN Radio's Dick Uliano about Clinton's new approach and about a new holiday-themed ad GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Listen to Crowley discuss the strategy of going positive in the last couple weeks before votes are cast in the Iowa caucuses.

– CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

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(CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee leads a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll of South Carolina Republican primary voters released Friday.

In today's Race to '08 audio podcast, CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley talks with CNN Radio's John Lisk about Huckabee's rise to front-runner status in the key southern state.

 Listen to Crowley explain Huckabee's South Carolina surge, the role of Christian conservative voters in the state's Republican primary, the addition of a high-level Republican operative to Huckabee's presidential campaign, and whether Huckabee can continue his rise against a well-financed rival like Mitt Romney.

– CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

Listen to Candy Crowley discuss the political impact of Oprah Winfrey.

(CNN) — The original 18,000-seat arena turned out not to be big enough. So, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is now holding a South Carolina campaign event featuring media superstar Oprah Winfrey in an 80,000-seat football stadium. But, with all the interest in Oprah, could she overshadow the Democratic presidential hopeful she is trying to help?

In today's Race to '08 audio podcast, CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley talks with CNN Radio's John Lisk about Obama's upcoming campaign events featuring Winfrey.

Related: Oprah to hit campaign trail with Obama

Listen to Candy Crowley discuss the presidential race in Iowa.

(CNN) — Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley has been spending some time on the campaign trail in Iowa where the first votes in the presidential primaries will be cast in about a month. 

In Tuesday's Race to '08 podcast, CNN Radio's John Lisk talks with Crowley about how Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are increasingly leveling attacks at each other as the Iowa caucuses approach and polling shows a virtual three-way tie in Iowa between Clinton, Obama, and former senator John Edwards.

In this podcast, a Vice-Chairman of the DNC discusses the sanctions imposed by the national party on Michigan and Florida.

(CNN) — The Democratic National Committee continues to try to rein in the chaotic 2008 primary calendar.

Over the weekend, the DNC announced that it will strip the Michigan Democratic Party of all of its delegates to the 2008 nominating convention if Michigan Democrats hold their primary on January 15 as planned.

In Monday's Race to '08 podcast, CNN's Bob Costantini chats with Linda Chavez-Thompson, one of the DNC's Vice-Chairs, about the primary calendar and how the Democratic Party has responded to the primary dates sets by Michigan and Florida.

A California proposal could affect the outcome of the '08 presidential election for the entire country.

(CNN) — In Friday's Race to '08 podcast, CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser and CNN Radio's John Lisk discuss a Republican proposal to change how California's 55 Electoral College votes are awarded.

Currently, the Golden State's votes are awarded on a winner-take-all basis across the entire state but a GOP plan would award them on the basis of winning individual Congressional districts.

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Related: Is the Electoral College a political dinosaur?

Listen to this Race to '08 podcast about the front loaded primary calendar.

(CNN) — In this Race to '08 podcast, CNN Political Editor Mark Preston speaks with CNN Radio's John Lisk about the 2008 presidential primary calendar now that New Hampshire has announced it will hold its primary on January 8, 2008.

Listen to Preston explain why a lot will likely be decided by the end of the voting day on February 5, 2008 and why the field may narrow even before "Super Duper Tuesday."  Preston and Lisk also discuss the presidential candidates' different strategies for making the most of 2008's unprecedented primary calendar.

Related: Primary calendar comes into focus

Listen to this pre-debate Race to '08 podcast.

(CNN) — In this Race to '08 podcast, Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley speaks with CNN Radio's John Lisk and previews CNN's Democratic presidential debate Thursday night in Las Vegas.

Listen to Crowley and Lisk discuss Sen. Hillary Clinton's effort to recover after a less than stellar performance at the last Democratic presidential debate. Crowley also touches on a recent controversy over a planted question at a Clinton campaign event in Iowa. Finally, listen to Crowley discuss how chief Clinton rivals John Edwards, D-North Carolina, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, will be walking a fine line in Thursday's debate — they need to be tough on Clinton but not too tough to turn off voters.

Programming note: CNN's Democratic presidential debate airs lives from Las Vegas beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday.

Related: Showdown in Vegas

Related: Poll: Clinton, Giuliani even in Nevada

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(CNN) — In this Race to '08 podcast, Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley speaks with CNN Radio's John Lisk and previews CNN's Democratic presidential debate Thursday night in Las Vegas.

Listen to Crowley and Lisk discuss the powerful Culinary Workers Union in Nevada, the role Nevada may play in the race for the White House in 2008, and Western politics.

Related: Dems hoping to hit union jackpot

Related: Las Vegas has become a political boomtown

Related: Mountain West a battleground in '08

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(CNN) — In this Race to '08 podcast, Chief National Correspondent John King speaks with CNN Radio's Jim Ribble about Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in South Carolina. 

King recently spent some time in the Palmetto State and has some interesting reporting about Romney's efforts to win over evangelical voters, Romeny's poll standing in the state, and how Romney's campaign has responded to Pat Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani. 

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(CNN) — How does the 2008 presidential race look in New Hampshire?  CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley and CNN's Bill Caiaccio discuss Wednesday's debate between the Democratic presidential contenders and the latest CNN/WMUR GOP poll results, in this Race to '08 podcast.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – In the latest Race to '08 podcast, CNN's Dick Uliano and CNN Political Editor Mark Preston look back at the Republican straw poll in Ames, Iowa.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and John Edwards are in a virtual tie among Iowa voters for the Democratic presidential nomination. CNN's John Lisk talks with CNN's Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider.

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CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley dissects a get tough speech on terrorism by Senator Barack Obama along with CNN's John Lisk.

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CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley and CNN's John Lisk take a look at the money Fred Thompson has raised for the month of June.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – The heated presidential race in South Carolina may be too hot for some of the state’s top politicians — including Democratic heavyweight Rep. Jim Clyburn — to pick any side at all.

“I’m going to be looking at things in December, to see what the lay of the land is at that time,” Clyburn told CNN Radio, “if it continues to be the way it is now, I probably won’t endorse.”

Clyburn is the No. 3 Democrat in the U.S. House and former head of the Congressional Black Caucus. In the world of endorsements, his would be platinum with a lot of sparkle, considering that South Carolina plans the first Democratic primary in the south and a majority of the voters in the state's primary could be African-American.

Clyburn seems to be only half-joking when he points to a split within his family as reason to stay out of the race. Symbolic or not, one daughter prefers Barack Obama, another Hillary Clinton and still a third family member backs John Edwards. But a larger factor could be that the eight-term Democrat has been stung before. Clyburn endorsed and set up a state campaign for former Missouri congressman Dick Gephardt in 2004. But Gephardt left the race well before the Palmetto State primary.

“I thought he would do well in South Carolina. But he had to get to South Carolina and he didn’t,” Clyburn said. “And so maybe I learned my lesson.”

Clyburn’s Republican neighbor Rep. Henry Brown has a similar approach to the GOP race.

“I don’t know that I will endorse,” he said, “I typically don’t. And it’s still very early.”

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford vigorously endorsed Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, in 2000, but like Brown and Clyburn, Sanford is withholding any presidential endorsement for now.

-CNN Radio’s Lisa Goddard

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CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley and CNN's John Lisk discuss Fred Thompson's appearance in South Carolina, in the latest Race to '08 podcast

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN's Bill Caiacco talks with CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley about Mitt Romney's presidential campaign finances, in the latest Race to '08 podcast.