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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 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.
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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.
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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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