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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has kept her centrist policies despite increasing attacks from her Democratic rivals. Clinton, who recently fell behind Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in a poll in Iowa -- site of the nation's first nominating contest -- is standing by relatively centrist and right-leaning views, including her recent Senate vote in favor of designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, despite heavy criticism from Obama and other leading candidates, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Aides said Clinton is reluctant to give up her positions for those popular with...

Campaign Trail: Lamenting the healthy U.S. economy, a certain senator from New York says "it takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush." But the Clintons' brand of soap always seems to be a mix of sleaze and socialism.Campaigning in Iowa on Monday, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., spread doom and gloom about an economy that has produced more than 8 million new jobs over the past 50 months amid a powerful economic expansion. Hillary has been pushing the theme that being first lady for eight years gave her the experience that will make her a good president. "Every day...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton votes with her party's liberal leaders nearly 100 percent of the time — undermining her drive to the middle on issues like banning flag burning and talking tough on Iran. Clinton voted the party line at a 96 percent clip last year, according to an analysis of 229 Senate votes conducted by Congressional Quarterly — second among 2008 Dem White House hopefuls only to Sen. John Kerry, who toed the line 97 percent of the time. Ted Kennedy took the cake at 100 percent.

Senator Hillary Clinton (D) New York 2004 Score - 0 Previous Year's Score - 10 Lifetime Score - 9 Years of Service - 4[snip] Homeland Security. HR 4567 (Roll Call 170)(Clinton absent for vote)

Columnist Jimmy Breslin: Clinton holds 'new North American record for fakery' Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is coming under heavy fire for her continued support of the war in Iraq, with some of the strongest rhetoric against her coming from the political left. "Hillary Clinton today holds the new North American record for fakery," writes Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin. "She copies. She sneaks and slithers past you with her opinion on a war that kills every day." Breslin unleashed his scathing attack on the New York Democrat after reading a mailing sent out by the senator's campaign packed with questions...

Is Hillary a centrist? Let's look at her votes President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what a "New Democrat" is. Specifically, was the phrase anything more than a cynical Clintonian effort to make liberal Democrats appear more moderate? Looking ahead, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who must be considered the early Democratic front-runner for the White House in 2008, seems to be adopting a similar strategy. Over the past year, much has been made in various media accounts of Clinton's leaving her liberalism behind in favor of the center.

Our friends at the National Review spotted this post-election howler in an Associated Press dispatch: "For 2008, the presumptive leading presidential candidates are New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Northeastern centrist . . ." [snip]• The Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the self-styled premier liberal organization that issues annual congressional voting ratings by tallying the votes cast on its 20 most important issues, has given Mrs. Clinton scores (ADA cleverly calls them "liberal quotients") of 95 percent for each of her first three years. Mr. Kennedy's ADA ratings have been 100 percent (2001 and 2002) and 95 percent...