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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
• Even Democrats were quick to praise the president's covert trip into the war zone. But the bonhomie is disappearing faster than last week's leftovers.
USA Today: Afterglow fading on Bush's PR coup in Iraq
• "Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean on Sunday urged states to reject federal No Child Left Behind funding, and said he would if still governor of Vermont."
The Associated Press in The Manchester Union Leader: Dean urges states to reject education money
• "President Bush's re-election team, anticipating another close election, has begun to assemble one of the largest grassroots organizations of any modern presidential campaign."
The Washington Post: Election is now for the Bush campaign
• "Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorist network are trying to incite a global religious war, and said Iraq is the testing ground for the United States to prevent it."
The Associated Press in The Boston Globe: Lieberman: U.S. must prevent religious war
• "Voters who frequently attend religious services tilt toward Bush, 63 percent to 37 percent, and those who never attend services lean toward Democrats, 62 percent to 38 percent."
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Americans' religious practices serve as gauge of political choice
• The doves are fired up, as "kinder gentler" takes a back seat to fighting words.
USA Today: Democrats find their voice and it's angry
• "A Democratic investment group planning to start a liberal radio network to counterbalance conservative radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh says it is close to buying radio stations in five major cities."
The New York Times: Liberal radio group says it is close to acquiring 5 stations
• "Mr. Kerry is running for president at last, and he is having trouble keeping people as happy as he has to. In an unsettled time, he has become a prisoner of the golden biography that was built to propel him."
The New York Times: Storied past, golden resume, but mixed reviews for Kerry
• "The hair is a bit shorter and tamer these days, the better to keep him from constantly sweeping the boyish tuft out of his eyes and with a side effect of making him look older than he did when he entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination a year ago."
The New York Times: A surface vs. substance fight for Edwards
• "To the New Hampshire political establishment, rivals for her status are a constant menace. The other woman could be South Carolina, the nonbinding D.C. primary, a Florida straw poll. Candidates could decide one year to (gasp) ignore her entirely, as Clark and Sen. Joe Lieberman are doing to poor Iowa this time around."
The Washington Post: Everyone's running mate
• He's still free, ladies.
The Associated Press in The Arizona Republic: Dennis Kucinich hasn't found love yet
Compiled by Claire Brinberg.
