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If the next Presidential Election were held today, 46% of voters would vote for a generic Republican candidate over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 39% of voters would cast their ballot for Senator Clinton. The New York Senator holds a narrow 45% to 42% lead among women, but trails by 17 points among men. The national telephone survey of 1,500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports December 3-5, 2004. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. An earlier Rasmussen Reports survey found that 42% of...

EDWARD Klein, the former New York Timesman who has made a career writing about the Kennedy family, has turned his sights on Sen. Hillary Clinton — and it won't be pretty, sources say. "He doesn't care for the Clintons, and he is digging up some new dirt on them," said one insider. Klein's titles include "All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie," "Just Jackie: Her Private Years," "Farewell Jackie: A Portrait of Her Final Days," and "The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years." Klein is almost finished writing the as-yet-untitled biography...

Don't look now, but the Kerry campaign is about to start attacking a group of Vietnam War veterans. After making Kerry's service as a swift-boat captain a cornerstone of the Democratic National Convention last week, the campaign's new goal will be to discredit some of Kerry's fellow soldiers as (shudder) politically motivated. Specifically, the trouble comes in the form of a band of veterans who served with Kerry during his glory tour in Vietnam and who will publish a book of their own memories of the young skipper called "Unfit for Command" in coming weeks. As a chronicle and anticipated...