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Dylan Byers / Ben Smith's Blog:
Fox's temptation: Newt — As Newtmentum continues to build, some members of Washington's chattering class are beginning to wonder whether Fox News chairman Roger Ailes might throw his network's weight behind former contributor Gingrich - a move that would deal a powerful blow to Mitt Romney …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Huntsman offers a ‘Mittstant Replay’ — Honestly, is there any entity in politics more effective in slamming Mitt Romney than Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign? — In this new video, Team Huntsman not only draws additional attention to Romney's awful interview with Fox News, but also fact-checks Romney's denials about flip-flops.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Florida shows perils of Gingrich for GOP — If the Newt surge persists over the next few months the biggest winner is going to be Barack Obama. We can see that pretty clearly in our newest Florida poll. — If Mitt Romney's the Republican nominee, Obama's in a lot of trouble in the Sunshine State.
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GOP 12, Hot Air and Campaign 2012
James Hohmann / The Politico:
Gingrich meets with Trump Monday …
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CNN, msnbc.com, Hot Air, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, Sky Dancing and Taylor Marsh
Fergus Cullen / New Hampshire Journal:
Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann Fail to File Full Slates of NH Delegates
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The Hill, Daily Kos, CNN, msnbc.com and The Caucus
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gingrich's hand ‘always six inches from the self-destruct button’
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Associated Press, msnbc.com, National Review and GOP 12
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street — ORLANDO, Fla. — The Republican Governor's Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Top GOP Strategist Admits He's ‘Scared’ Of Occupy Wall Street Because It's ‘Having An Impact’ — The The Republican Governor's Association met in Florida this week and featured pollster Frank Luntz, who offered a coaching session for attendees about how they should communicate to the public.
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Booman Tribune
Nick Schulz / Los Angeles Times:
Three inconvenient truths for Occupy Wall Street
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Balloon Juice, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Mahablog and normblog
Andy Stern / Wall Street Journal:
China's Superior Economic Model — The free-market fundamentalist economic model is being thrown onto the trash heap of history. — Andy Grove, the founder and chairman of Intel, provocatively wrote in Businessweek last year that, “Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated …
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Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, RedState, americanthinker.com, American Spectator, The Lonely Conservative, Ed Driscoll and Maggie's Farm
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Islamists Say They Have Mandate in Egypt Voting — CAIRO — Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt's first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the most significant step yet …
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
A Banker Speaks, With Regret — If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and other bankers are mostly responsible for the country's housing mess.
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Firedoglake, Rod Dreher, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, Prairie Weather, Shakesville, naked capitalism, The Daily Caller, AlterNet and Booman Tribune
Jason Noble / Iowa Caucuses:
Michele Bachmann debates same-sex rights with high-school students in Waverly — Waverly, Ia. - Amidst a breezy appearance before an enthusiastic crowd at pizza restaurant here, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann debated two high school students over whether civil rights included the right of same-sex couples to marry.
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ThinkProgress, The Raw Story and Joe. My. God.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Barack Obama and blue-collar Pennsylvania voters : Take 2 — SCRANTON, Pa. — They were never a natural fit. — President Barack Obama lost white working-class voters in this Rust Belt state during the 2008 Democratic primary, after describing them as bitter people who “cling” to God and guns.
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Taylor Marsh and Pirate's Cove
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Sara Murray / Washington Wire:
Study: Racial Bias Cost Obama 3 to 5 Points in 2008 Election
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Bloomberg:
Cheapest Primary in a Decade Defies Campaign Spending Prediction — Even as experts predict that the 2012 presidential race will be the most expensive in U.S. history, a funny thing is happening on the way to the Republican nomination: It's becoming one of the cheapest primaries in a more than a decade.
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Don Surber, Yahoo! News, The Impolitic, ABCNEWS, The Political Carnival, USA Today and Althouse
Jill / Return The Democratic Majority …:
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — In response to this letter, written by former general partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and current Investment Fund Manager at Omega Advisors …
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Crooks and Liars and Dealbreaker
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Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
Legendary investor to Obama: Is all this class warfare rhetoric really necessary?
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BizzyBlog and Conservatives4Palin
Kimberly Kindy / Washington Post:
Bill to ban insider trading in Congress is suddenly popular — For six years, Rep. Louise M. Slaughter pressed her colleagues to co-sponsor legislation that would ban them from using information they gleaned on Capitol Hill to guide their trades in the stock market.
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Conservatives4Palin
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O.Kay Henderson:
Harkin: Gingrich as GOP nominee would be “heaven sent” (audio) — U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) held a telephone conference call with reporters this morning. The topic of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was raised, and Harkin started swinging (rhetorically). Here's the AUDIO.
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The Hill
Morgen / Verum Serum:
Unearthed: Gingrich Makes the Case for GSE's on Freddie Mac's Web Site in 2007/2008 — I'm a little late with this - it's been at least a couple of weeks since Bloomberg broke the story that Newt Gingrich received $1.6 million in consulting fees from Freddie Mac over a decade or so.
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Washington Post, Campaign 2012, The Other McCain, Ed Driscoll and National Review
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The strange GOP embrace of Simpson-Bowles — The Republican National Committee today sent out what has to be the strangest press release I've seen in a long while. The RNC, in turns out, is outraged that President Obama hasn't embraced the Simpson-Bowles debt-reduction plan.
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
Bachmann Campaign In Hot Water Over Misuse of Homeschooler Email List — The Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators (NICHE) has sent out an email to its members that says Michele Bachmann's campaign uploaded the group's email list into their campaign database without permission.
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The Hill, GOP 12, Iowa Caucuses, Wonkette and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
AT&T Public Policy Blog:
AT&T Response to FCC Staff Report — The following may be attributed to Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of External & Legislative Affairs: — We expected that the AT&T-T-Mobile transaction would receive careful, considered, and fair analysis.
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The Hill, Reuters, Money & Company, TechCrunch and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Gail Burkhardt / Monitor:
Brother: Late student ‘shut down’ by legal status; he was ‘bound for greatness,’ principal says — NORTH OF PALMVIEW - A sign in Joaquin Luna's home reads in Spanish, “To get to heaven, you don't need papers.” — Luna's brother Diyer Mendoza believes not having “papers” …
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ThinkProgress and The Huffington Post
David Weigel / Slate:
Pawlenty Explains his Campaign-Ending “Obamneycare” Whiff … - Gingrich Is the Only Candidate Who Talks About How He'd Govern the Country. Good for Him. - The Senate's Gruesome Decision To Allow the Military To Detain Citizens Without a Trial Forever - The Artist Is Slight …
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The Daily Caller
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rick Perry 2012 video: 'I'm Rick Perry and...what's that line again?' — Rick Perry is heading to Jay Leno's couch tonight, and he's making the most of it - airing this campaign ad in Iowa, in which he takes on his own “oops” moment from the CNBC debate in which he couldn't remember the third agency he'd cut …
Discussion:
GOP 12
Vanity Fair:
Rick Perry Has Three Strikes Against Him — (Pay-to-play cronyism. Roughshod, right-wing politics. And . . . Oops, read on) — Rick Perry's already lackluster presidential bid went on a deathwatch after his debate debacle. In talking to the many who have known Perry over the years …
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The Daily Caller
Molly Hunter / ABCNEWS:
US Embassy in Iran? Michele Bachmann's ‘Oops’ Moment — ABC News' Molly Hunter reports: — Did Michelle Bachmann have her “oops” moment? — In light of the British Foreign Ministry pulling all U.K. nationals out of the British embassy in Tehran after students stormed the building in protest …
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PolitickerNY, The Iowa Republican, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Sense of Events
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich Doubles Down On Child Labor: Poor Kids Should ‘Clean The Bathroom’ — Conceding ever so slightly to flak he's taken for calling child labor laws “stupid” and suggesting that schools fire janitors and replace with them poor kids, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich got more specific today …
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