Mud on the campaign trail

Barack Obama pulled even with Hillary Clinton in a key poll, and he may get a boost as the Democratic presidential rivals trade increasingly harsh attacks, said Noam Scheiber in The New Republic Online. The "rough" campaigning might be good for

What happened

Barack Obama pulled into a statistical tie with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in Iowa, as the rival presidential candidates stepped up their attacks on each other. A Washington Post/ABC News poll released Monday found that 30 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers supported Obama, while 26 percent backed Clinton and 22 percent backed former senator John Edwards. (The New York Times' The Caucus blog, free registration)

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