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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
New Iowa Poll May Understate Paul's Support — I'm not always a big fan of dissecting individual polls — mostly because there are liable to be a plethora of them in Iowa and New Hampshire over the next several days and their errors will tend to be mitigated as more are added to the average.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Campaign 2012 and Outside the Beltway
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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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ABCNEWS, The Huffington Post, Washington Monthly, Sister Toldjah, Campaign 2012, Jezebel, American Spectator, The Politico, NationalJournal.com, Hit & Run, americanthinker.com, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Firedoglake, Weekly Standard, The Caucus, Hot Air, Libertarian Republican, The Daily Caller, Pundit & Pundette, Politisite, Althouse, Swampland, Riehl World View, Mediaite, The Other McCain, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Iowa Caucuses, National Review and The Moderate Voice
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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CNN, Boston Globe, msnbc.com, Washington Post, GOP 12, Hot Air, Ballot Box and Daily Kos
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
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
No Surprise, Iowa Social Conservatives Are About To Shoot Us All in the Foot Again
No Surprise, Iowa Social Conservatives Are About To Shoot Us All in the Foot Again
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Balloon Juice, Campaign 2012, Washington Monthly, RedState, The Daily Caller and The Atlantic Online
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Who won the day? Rick Santorum
Who won the day? Rick Santorum
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CNN, The Other McCain, Politisite, The Caucus, ABCNEWS and Hot Air
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
The Santorum Surge: Using tax policy as pro-family, pro-natalism social policy
The Santorum Surge: Using tax policy as pro-family, pro-natalism social policy
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Ricochet Conversations Feed and GOP 12
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Ron Paul soft spot emerges: foreign policy
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Mercury Rising and Radio Iowa
USA Today:
As Rick Santorum surges, Newt Gingrich fades fast in Iowa
As Rick Santorum surges, Newt Gingrich fades fast in Iowa
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Bloomberg, ThinkProgress, Los Angeles Times, Austin American-Statesman, The Agonist, Washington Times, Washington Post and ABCNEWS
Mary Stegmeir / Iowa Caucuses:
Breaking: Michele Bachmann campaign chairman endorses Ron Paul
Breaking: Michele Bachmann campaign chairman endorses Ron Paul
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Democratic Strategist, American Power, CNN and Slate
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
US formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare
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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The PJ Tatler, Mercury Rising and Firedoglake
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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Outside the Beltway, The Politico, Scared Monkeys, Booman Tribune, Capital Tonight and Nation Now
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Robert Reich / Business Insider:
Get Ready For A Obama-Clinton Presidential Ticket
Get Ready For A Obama-Clinton Presidential Ticket
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The Anchoress, National Review, The Daily Caller and Politisite
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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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Firedoglake, americanthinker.com and Prairie Weather
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly, ABCNEWS, Guardian, msnbc.com, Hotline On Call, The Caucus, Campaign 2012, American Power and The BLT
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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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americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers, Jezebel, Politisite, Fausta's Blog and New York Times
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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
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The New York Times Has a Weiner Moment — Did The New York Times just cancel home delivery of its newspaper to everyone, across the nation? An email apparently sent out to the entire user database appeared to suggest that. In fact, the Times even sent the email to people that don't subscribe …
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FishbowlDC, Mediaite, Gawker, Media Decoder and Patterico's Pontifications, more at Mediagazer »
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
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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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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Mediaite, Media Decoder and Outside the Beltway
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Britain's Future Lies With America, Not Europe — Welcoming Britain back into the North Atlantic economic community would be a win-win for all involved. — In 1952, then-U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that “Britain has lost an empire but has failed to find a role.”
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk
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Pentagon trimming ranks of generals, admirals — With the Iraq war over and troops in Afghanistan on their way home, the U.S. military is getting down to brass tacks: culling generals and admirals from its top-heavy ranks. — Pentagon officials said they have eliminated 27 jobs for generals …
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Washington Monthly and Prairie Weather
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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, Jammie Wearing Fools and Christian Science Monitor
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, Ed Driscoll, Moe Lane, Verum Serum and Cold Fury
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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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The America Willard and Our Mr. Brooks Care Not to See — The next time a Republican tells you how the states can do everything better than the federal government, this is what that person is talking about. It is also the beau ideal of what Willard Romney means when he talks about doing away with the …
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Democracy in America and The Impolitic