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2:10 PM ET, January 1, 2012

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Des Moines Register:
Romney leads Paul in new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll; Santorum surges  —  The Des Moines Register's latest Iowa Poll shows a surprise three-way match-up in contention to win the Iowa Republican caucuses: Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.  —  Santorum, who has been largely invisible …
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msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Breaking down the final Iowa poll  —  NBC's Domenico Montanaro reports on the ad race in Iowa, why Santorum's making his move, and how undecided voters might break on Election Night.  —  By NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
Niall Stanage / Ballot Box:
No endorsement yet by Rep. Steve King  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — With only two full days of campaigning left before the Iowa caucuses, one of the state's most influential conservative figures claims he still does not know whom he will support.  —  Rep. Steve King, who represents …
Discussion: CNN, The Politico and ABCNEWS
Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Iowa's GOP caucuses may see some Democratic defectors
Discussion: Daily Kos
Niall Stanage / Ballot Box:
A new problem for Santorum in Iowa: Overcrowding
Discussion: CNN
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies  —  The benefits of his candidacy are widely ignored, as are the Democrats' own evils  —  As I've written about before, America's election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Pariahs and Prophets  —  IN 1984, after serving three terms in the House of Representatives, Ron Paul was defeated by Phil Gramm in Texas's Republican Senate primary.  Paul left Congress, and a few years later he left the Republican Party entirely to run for president on the Libertarian line.
New York Times:
I Just Got Here, but I Know Trouble When I See It  —  BELIEVE it or not, times are getting better.  —  At least that's what the dry statistics keep telling us.  Industrial production, G.D.P. — the kind of figures that Washington and Wall Street sweat over — suggest that the economy is on the mend.
New York Post:
OWS mob in clash with cops  —  Some 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters began the new year by trying to retake Zuccotti Park last night, starting a massive clash with police in which one officer was stabbed in the hand with a pair of scissors.  —  A suspect was arrested in the 11:30 p.m. incident, according to a law enforcement source.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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City Room:
Surging Back Into Zuccotti Park, Protesters Are Cleared by Police  —  Updated More than 500 people associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement gathered in Zuccotti Park on Saturday and, in a return to scenes from earlier in the year, the evening began with the sound of drumming and calls …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Democrats send ghost from Romney's past  —  (CNN) - Democrats aren't missing a chance to take aim at their favorite target: Republican presidential frontrunner and former Bain Capital executive Mitt Romney.  —  Randy Johnson, a worker laid off when Bain bought American Pad and Paper Company …
Discussion: The Politico
Julia Duin / Washington Post:
Adam Bellow hopes to give voice to the tea party with new conservative imprint at HarperCollins  —  NEW YORK — Attention, conservatives: Adam Bellow says this is your moment.  —  The intellectual left, he contends, is in a vacuum.  The right is where there are ideas, variety, excitement.
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Online community Reddit driving opposition to piracy bill  —  Members of Congress and their staff have grown used to scouring the Web, Twitter and Facebook to see where voters stand before finalizing their positions.  But the heated debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) …
Discussion: Betabeat
New York Times:
As Good as It Gets?  —  The economy was weak in 2011, but it ended better than it started, with growth up from its lows and unemployment down from its highs.  The question now is whether that progress will continue into 2012.  We wish we could say yes, but unless policy makers are incredibly lucky …
 
 
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Virginia AG to intervene in primary ballot dispute
Discussion: Saint Petersblog
Mike Mandel / Mandel on Innovation and Growth:
My chart of the year: The investment drought continues
Discussion: Political Mojo
Christopher Jensen / Wheels:
Fisker Recalling 239 Karma Plug-In Hybrids for Fire Hazard
Discussion: Don Surber and Watts Up With That?
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Chief Justice Defends Peers on Health Law
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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The 20th Anniversary of the End of the Soviet Union
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Ginger Gibsonand James Hohmann / The Politico:
Newt Gingrich reins himself in during final push
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Iowa Caucuses and CNN
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Surging Santorum Would Annul All Same-Sex Marriages
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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