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The Caucus:
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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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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The Moderate Voice, ABCNEWS, Hot Air and The Spectacle Blog
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, The Politico, USA Today and Ballot Box
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
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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The Daily What, Inside Cable News, The Right Scoop and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell: I like Mitt Romney's flip
Christine O'Donnell: I like Mitt Romney's flip
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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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The Politico, Sky Dancing, The Moderate Voice, The Hill, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air, The Political Carnival and Daily Kos
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
GOP's Latest Radical List Of Demands May Force A Government Shutdown In Three Days
GOP's Latest Radical List Of Demands May Force A Government Shutdown In Three Days
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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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The Politico, CNN, Business Insider, Roll Call, Wonkette, Wake up America and Daily Kos
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 daytime anchor Thomas Roberts seizes on Mitt Romney's use of the phrase “Keep America America.” The network claims the phrase plays homage to the Ku Klux Klan slogan of “Keep America American.”
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Weasel Zippers, The Last Tradition, NewsBusters.org, Big Journalism, The PJ Tatler and Ed Driscoll
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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Little Green Footballs, The Caucus, Ricochet Conversations Feed, iOwnTheWorld.com and Business Insider
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan to announce new approach to preserving Medicare
Paul Ryan to announce new approach to preserving Medicare
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and American Spectator
Kevinliptak / CNN:
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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CNN, Campaign 2012, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Swampland and Pundit & Pundette
Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Occupy Protesters Interrupt Gingrich
Occupy Protesters Interrupt Gingrich
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Weasel Zippers and MyFox Philadelphia
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Monthly:
Stepping back and watching a mugging
Stepping back and watching a mugging
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Prairie Weather, Daily Kos and National Review
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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Washington Post, Weasel Zippers and Ballot Box
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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
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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The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and GOP 12
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gary Johnson to leave GOP race, run as Libertarian
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
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Tom Friedman, hitting rock bottom — Today's Tom Friedman's column has set off a firestorm. Now, he says and writes many wrong-headed things, about China and other dictatorial regimes, primarily. But today he hits rock bottom: … You see, in Friedman's eyes, the entire U.S. Congress is bought and paid for by a cabal of Jews.
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Power Line, New York Times, The Daily Dish and Mondoweiss
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
Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Gary Busey withdraws Gingrich endorsement — Actor Gary Busey is withdrawing his endorsement of Newt Gingrich for president. — “It is not time for me to be endorsing anyone at this time! When there are the two final candidates, then I will endorse,” Busey said Wednesday in a statement released through his representative.
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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 …
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.
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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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Newt Staffer Fired for Mormon ‘Cult’ Comment Got a Raw Deal, Source Says — When I blogged about this controversy last night, I realized the story would cut at least three ways: — Gingrich would be hurt by association with a “controversy.” Most people would just hear a blurb …
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The Iowa Republican, Catholic Bandita, Riehl World View, Datechguy's Blog, Washington Wire and Daily Pundit
NBC Connecticut:
New Haven Asks State to Allow Non-Citizens to Vote — New Haven's mayor wants illegal immigrants to be able vote in municipal elections. — New Haven Mayor John DeStefano plans to ask the state Legislature to allow illegal immigrants who live in the city to be able vote in municipal elections.
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Lawyer asks judge to endorse Blagojevich for rehab — CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich's attorneys have asked to have him placed in a drug abuse program when he starts his 14-year prison sentence for corruption, though they aren't saying if the former Illinois governor has a problem or if it's a legal move.
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Investor's Business Daily:
Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra — Ecofanaticism: SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon. — The massive Obama stimulus …
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Power Line, Moonbattery and TigerHawk