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Romney Warns of Nominating ‘Zany’ Gingrich — Mitt Romney is sharpening his warning to Republicans about the consequences of nominating Newt Gingrich as the party's presidential candidate, declaring in an interview on Wednesday: “Zany is not what we need in a president.” — “Zany is great in a campaign.
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Mitt Romney: Gingrich a “very wealthy” man — Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney doesn't want to be cast as the only rich person in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. — In the wake of his attempt to make a $10,000 bet with Rick Perry during Saturday's Republican …
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Opinionator:
With Candidates Like This ... David Brooks: Gail, I'm on vacation this week, and in my absence the entire political world seems to have come to bipartisan agreement: Newt Gingrich would be a terrible president. I believe this. George Will believes this. Michael Savage, the über …
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Gallup and Hullabaloo
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking good in Virginia — PPP has polled Virginia four times in 2011 and has come to the same conclusion every time: Barack Obama just hasn't slipped there to the extent he has nationally. That's a finding with major, major implications for his reelection prospects …
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Hot Air, USA Today, The Politico and Ballot Box
Washington Examiner:
Romney is GOP's best choice — Mitt Romney participates in a wide-ranging interview with members of The Washington Examiner editorial board on Dec. 7. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner) — The only Republican who can beat Obama — The headlines Wednesday morning brought the stunning news …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Romney's Eerie Post-Flip-Flop Consistency
Romney's Eerie Post-Flip-Flop Consistency
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: Obama, Dems drop millionaire surtax to pay for payroll tax cut — (CNN) - In what would be a major concession, President Obama and Senate Democrats will drop their insistence that a surtax on millionaires pay for extending the payroll tax cut, a Democratic source tells CNN.
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
GOP's Latest Radical List Of Demands May Force A Government Shutdown In Three Days — As the media fixates on the partisan battle over renewing the soon-to-expire payroll tax cut, the imminent threat of a government shutdown seems to have been lost in the mix.
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Washington Post, Daily Kos and bizjournals
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP leader McConnell blocks Senate vote on House payroll-tax-cut package
GOP leader McConnell blocks Senate vote on House payroll-tax-cut package
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
TRENDING: Paul reacts to positive poll fortunes, nagging questions about electability — Amherst, New Hampshire (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is currently confronted by two political realities: promising poll numbers in the states that hold the first two presidential contests …
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rick Perry, Mitt Romney internals show Newt Gingrich slippage, sources say
Rick Perry, Mitt Romney internals show Newt Gingrich slippage, sources say
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Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Monthly:
Stepping back and watching a mugging
Stepping back and watching a mugging
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Occupy Protesters Interrupt Gingrich
Occupy Protesters Interrupt Gingrich
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Weasel Zippers and MyFox Philadelphia
The Iowa Republican:
Focus Group Fallout
Focus Group Fallout
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Newt Staffer Fired for Mormon ‘Cult’ Comment Got a Raw Deal, Source Says
Newt Staffer Fired for Mormon ‘Cult’ Comment Got a Raw Deal, Source Says
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Datechguy's Blog, Catholic Bandita and Daily Pundit
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
NBC News Brass Reportedly Furious Over Handling Of Romney KKK Slogan Story — As if former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney didn't have enough problems already, a story that connects him to the Ku Klux Klan has now entered the cable news bloodstream. AmericaBlog noticed that a phrase Romney has used …
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
MSNBC Likens Romney To The KKK For Saying “Keep America America”
MSNBC Likens Romney To The KKK For Saying “Keep America America”
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James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Obamney Fail: Fox News Mistakenly Uses Barack Obama Photo On Mitt Romney Poll Graphic
Obamney Fail: Fox News Mistakenly Uses Barack Obama Photo On Mitt Romney Poll Graphic
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Commander in Creep — Got a friend who backs Obama? They have a list of people like you. — Somewhere along the line, somebody signed us up for the Barack Obama campaign emails. Normally we don't care for spam, political or otherwise, but these are so odd that we've kept them coming out of curiosity.
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Janie Lorber / Roll Call:
Occupy, Liberals Can't Get Together
Occupy, Liberals Can't Get Together
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Liberal Values and Weasel Zippers
National Review:
Winnowing the Field — A hard-fought presidential primary campaign is obscuring the uncharacteristic degree of unity within the Republican party. It has reached a conservative consensus on most of the pressing issues of the day. All of the leading candidates, and almost all of the lagging ones, support the right to life.
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The Caucus and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Marines' Haditha Interviews Found in Iraqi Junkyard — BAGHDAD — One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America's time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha.
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Balloon Juice, Prairie Weather and Booman Tribune
Trent Hill / Independent Political Report:
IPR Exclusive: Gary Johnson to Announce Libertarian Switch Tomorrow — UPDATE: Johnson has told a reporter that this is something he's looking at and that he will be in New York tomorrow to do “as many media appearances as they can wind me up and send me in that direction.”
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gary Johnson to leave GOP race, run as Libertarian
City Room:
Woman Fatally Crushed in Midtown Elevator Accident — A 41-year-old woman was crushed to death when she entered an elevator at the Madison Avenue headquarters of the advertising giant Y&R and it suddenly rose before the doors had closed, pinning her between the floor of the elevator and ceiling …
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The Daily What, Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
Stephanie Hallett / The Huffington Post:
Marriage Rate In America Drops Drastically … Barely half of Americans over the age 18 are married, according to a new report from the Pew Research Institute. The number of married couples dropped a startling five percent between 2009 and 2010 and has declined by more than 20 percent since 1960.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Blames Gays For Plummeting Marriage Rate
Santorum Blames Gays For Plummeting Marriage Rate
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Towleroad News #gay
Robert / KAYAK:
We Handled This Poorly — We would like to apologize to anyone who was offended by how we handled our decision not to continue advertising on All-American Muslim when it returns in January. We decided to advertise on it in the first place because we adamantly support tolerance and diversity.
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
GOP Sen. Coburn: My ‘Most Liberal’ Colleagues Are ‘More Intellectually Honest’ Regarding The Deficit — As Senate Republicans continue to stand against raising taxes on millionaires — even if it means the current payroll tax cut that's benefiting every working American expires …
Kurt Andersen / Time:
The Protester — Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of history. Back then, when citizen multitudes took to the streets without weapons …
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WISN Milwaukee's Channel 12:
Mickey Mouse, Adolf Hitler Allowed On Wis. Recall Petitions — GAB Rules Address, Date More Important Than Names — MADISON, Wis. — The signatures of Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler will be counted on recall petitions targeting Gov. Scott Walker as long as they are properly dated and include …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Ron Paul For The GOP Nomination — The Dish goes through the process of endorsing candidates in a primary season, not because I'm under any illusions that my endorsement counts. It probably hurts an insignificant amount, if anything. I try to make a decision - because it's easy to pontificate …
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