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Kevinliptak / CNN:
CNN Poll: Romney on top, Gingrich fading & Santorum rising in Iowa — Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - Did Newt Gingrich peak too early? — A new survey of people likely to attend Iowa's Republican caucuses indicates that the former House speaker's support in the Hawkeye State is plunging.
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Ranks of Young Paul Volunteers Willingly Clean Up for the Cause — DES MOINES — Ron Paul's college-aged volunteer army — a core of the powerful ground organization that is the envy of rivals — is descending on Iowa from around the nation to coax people to the state's Republican caucuses …
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Washington Monthly, ABCNEWS, Hotline On Call, Campaign 2012, American Power and The BLT
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
No Surprise, Iowa Social Conservatives Are About To Shoot Us All in the Foot Again — I'm hearing several campaigns and external pollsters have a surge for Rick Santorum. With the National Review folks fawning over him again, it probably means a surge is real and any surge by Rick Santorum …
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Washington Monthly, Balloon Juice, The Daily Caller and The Atlantic Online
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann chair defects to Ron Paul — In a shock announcement Wednesday night, Iowa state senator and onetime Michele Bachmann campaign leader Kent Sorenson declared that he is now supporting Ron Paul for president. — Sorenson made the announcement at a Paul rally with veterans …
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Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Pat Dollard, The Daily Caller, americanthinker.com and RADAMISTO
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Bachmann chair's surprise defection — “10 minutes ago,” Sorenson, a GOP state senator, told POLITICO about when the Paul campaign found out he was moving to their camp. — In one of the most surprising moments of the 2012 campaign, Sorenson strolled on stage just moments before Paul …
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Boston Globe, Washington Post, GOP 12 and msnbc.com
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Who won the day? Rick Santorum — At the start of the month, Rick Santorum needed the following things to happen in order for him to be competitive in Iowa: Newt Gingrich needed to fade. Evangelicals needed to move toward his campaign. Then voters needed to see some tangible sign of momentum …
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CNN, The Other McCain, The Caucus, ABCNEWS, Hot Air and FiveThirtyEight
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Bachmann Iowa Chair Ditches Her for Paul — Hawkeye State Sen. Kent Sorenson jumps to the Texan's camp hours after he attended an event in Indianola to support the MN Congresswoman. — Sorenson: “When the Republican establishment is going to be coming after Ron Paul, I thought it is my duty to come to his aid.”
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The Political Carnival, The PJ Tatler, Weekly Standard, MN Progressive Project and Race 4 2012
Mary Stegmeir / Iowa Caucuses:
Breaking: Michele Bachmann campaign chairman endorses Ron Paul
Breaking: Michele Bachmann campaign chairman endorses Ron Paul
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Los Angeles Times, Austin American-Statesman, USA Today, Democratic Strategist, American Power, Slate and CNN
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
US formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare
US formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare
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The Moderate Voice
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
New Iowa Poll May Understate Paul's Support
New Iowa Poll May Understate Paul's Support
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Washington Post and Campaign 2012
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Breaking: Michele Bachmann Iowa campaign co-chair endorses Ron Paul
Breaking: Michele Bachmann Iowa campaign co-chair endorses Ron Paul
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Mercury Rising and Firedoglake
Kevinliptak / CNN:
TRENDING: High-profile Bachmann backer deals blow to her Iowa campaign, endorses Paul
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Drama: Bachmann's Iowa chairman endorses Ron Paul …
Drama: Bachmann's Iowa chairman endorses Ron Paul …
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The Huffington Post, The Daily, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and The Caucus
Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus:
Commercial Introduces Gay Marriage as an Issue in the Iowa Caucuses
Commercial Introduces Gay Marriage as an Issue in the Iowa Caucuses
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Washington Post, New York Times, The Raw Story and Towleroad News #gay
Zachary Abrahamson / The Politico:
How the Iowa caucuses work
How the Iowa caucuses work
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Chavez: U.S. May Be Behind Leaders' Cancer — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hinted that the U.S. may be behind a “very strange” bout of cancer affecting several leaders aligned with him in South America. — Chavez, speaking a day after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner …
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Daniel Wallis / Reuters:
Venezuela's Chavez: Did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?
Venezuela's Chavez: Did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?
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Reuters
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
What We Think About When We Think About the Court — Wherever I go these days, someone is bound to ask me how I think the Supreme Court will rule in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act, set for argument over three days during the last week in March. My response, that I expect the court …
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White House Memo: Obama Gains Reputation as Distant in Washington — WASHINGTON — Air Force One had just landed in Manchester, N.H., on a brisk Tuesday morning last month when President Obama made an admission to Valerie B. Jarrett, his close friend and senior adviser. — “I just called Reggie,” Mr. Obama said.
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americanthinker.com and Prairie Weather
Robert Reich:
My Political Prediction for 2012: It's Obama-Clinton — My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he's apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President.
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The Politico, The Daily Caller, Capital Tonight, Politisite, Nation Now and Los Angeles Times
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Is the Obama Boomlet Over? — Over the last week or so, there has been a lot of news coverage of Barack Obama's comeback in the polls. I noted his modest bounce here, and Scott Rasmussen wrote us to say that he thought Obama's rise was due to increasing optimism about the economy.
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Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor
Ann Coulter:
ONLY ONE CANDIDATE IS RIGHT ON THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES — In the upcoming presidential election, two issues are more important than any others: repealing Obamacare and halting illegal immigration. If we fail at either one, the country will be changed permanently. — Taxes can be raised and lowered.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, PoliPundit.com, Power Line and Hot Air
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Repo Men — If you're making money on the Wall Street scale — which is nothing like your boring, middle-management in the Fortune 500, Hamptons-and-Mercedes, barely-a-1 percenter type money — then you can buy basically anything. When real-estate investor Robert Rosania put part …
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International Liberty, Fraters Libertas, Moe Lane, Ed Driscoll, Verum Serum and Cold Fury
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Gingrich: Campaign worker's signature fraud cost slot on Virginia ballot — Algona, Iowa (CNN) - Newt Gingrich cited fraud Wednesday as the reason he didn't get on the Virginia primary ballot. — Last week his campaign acknowledged they used paid volunteers to scramble …
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Bearing Drift, American Power, Washington Monthly and Washington Post
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From North Korea, an Altered Procession — The funeral of Kim Jong-il on Wednesday called to mind the best stage-managed Communist state productions: the falling snow, the wailing mourners, the perfectly spaced limousines and rows of chest-beating men. — So perhaps it was because the scene …
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Media Decoder, Mediaite and Outside the Beltway, more at Mediagazer »
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Jon Swift Memorial Roundup 2011 — Welcome to a tradition started by the much missed Jon Swift/Al Weisel. He left behind some excellent satire, but was also a nice guy and a strong supporter of small blogs. As Lance Mannion puts it: … Here's his 2007 and 2008 editions. Last year's revival is here.
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Eric Holder: More cops slain by illegal guns — The number of officers killed in the line of duty jumped 13 percent in 2011 compared with the year before — and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the increase as “a devastating and unacceptable trend” that he blamed on illegal firearms.
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Right Wing News
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Priests brawl in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity — Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests and monks came to blows during preparations for Orthodox Christmas celebrations — Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics in a turf war at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.
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Informed Comment and Biased BBC