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KCCI-TV:
Could Typo Rewrite Caucus History? — Caucus Vote Counter Says Romney Mistakenly Given 20 Votes — DES MOINES, Iowa — Caucus night was chaotic in many places, with hundreds of voters, candidates showing up and the throngs of media who followed. The world's eyes were on Iowa.
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Rasmussen Reports:
South Carolina Primary: Romney 27%, Santorum 24%, Gingrich 18% — What a difference a caucus makes. Rick Santorum who two months ago had one percent (1%) support among likely South Carolina Republican Primary voters now is running a close second there with 24% of the vote.
Rasmussen Reports:
New Hampshire: Romney 42%, Paul 18%, Santorum 13%, Huntsman 12% — Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is pulling away from the pack in New Hampshire as Tuesday's first-in-the-nation primary nears. His nearest rival now trails him by more than 20 points.
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Big Government, Taegan Goddard's …, Campaign 2012, Hot Air and GOP 12
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Gingrich: Romney should drop out if he doesn't win New Hampshire primary — Newt Gingrich said if Mitt Romney doesn't win the New Hampshire primary, he should drop out of the race. — “Look, this is one of his best states other than Utah and Massachusetts.
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CNN
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Romney hits Obama's economic record despite improving jobs numbers
Romney hits Obama's economic record despite improving jobs numbers
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The Politico
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
U.S. Adds 200,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate at 8.5% — The United States added a robust 200,000 new jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday, in a sign that the long-awaited economic recovery has finally built up a head of steam. — The nation's unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent in December …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
A good jobs report — and a good year — The December jobs report is good news. Very good news. Payrolls increased by 200,000 — and the growth was spread relatively evenly across the economy. Retail added 28,000 jobs. Manufacturing added 23,000 jobs.
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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress and The Big Picture
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Private sector jobs looking much stronger
Private sector jobs looking much stronger
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ThinkProgress and Brad DeLong
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Unemployment Falls to 8.5%; 200,000 New Jobs Created
Unemployment Falls to 8.5%; 200,000 New Jobs Created
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Calculated Risk, FT Alphaville, Daily Kos, MarketBeat, Main Street and The Political Carnival
Alan Krueger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in December
The Employment Situation in December
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Washington Wire, New York Times and Guardian
Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
Unemployment Rate Drop Is for Real
Unemployment Rate Drop Is for Real
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Outside the Beltway and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Tim Mullaney / USA Today:
Dec. unemployment rate lowest in nearly 3 years
Dec. unemployment rate lowest in nearly 3 years
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Weasel Zippers and Marathon Pundit
Josh Boak / The Politico:
Unemployment rate falls to 8.5 percent, economy adds 200K jobs
Unemployment rate falls to 8.5 percent, economy adds 200K jobs
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CNN
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Payroll jobs up, jobless rate falls to 8.5 percent
Payroll jobs up, jobless rate falls to 8.5 percent
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The Enterprise Blog, The Gateway Pundit and Taylor Marsh
David Brooks / New York Times:
A New Social Agenda — I'm to Rick Santorum's left on most social issues, like same-sex marriage and abortion. I'm also put off by his Manichaean political rhetoric. He seems to imagine America's problems can best be described as the result of a culture war between the God-fearing conservatives and the narcissistic liberals.
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The Hill, The New Republic, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, The Mahablog and driftglass
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Santorum Booed After Gay Marriage Exchange — Rick Santorum was booed after a lengthy back-and-forth with several students in Concord, N.H., on the issue of same-sex marriage, which is legal in New Hampshire. — As Santorum addressed a group of college students, one asked …
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2012 Decoded, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Right Scoop and Patterico's Pontifications
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum: ‘We Always Need a Jesus Candidate’
Rick Santorum: ‘We Always Need a Jesus Candidate’
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The Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Was Santorum ‘Weird’ For Bringing Home His Stillborn Baby? (UPDATED)
Was Santorum ‘Weird’ For Bringing Home His Stillborn Baby? (UPDATED)
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Spotlight Shines on Santorum, Rough Edges and All
Spotlight Shines on Santorum, Rough Edges and All
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New York Times and Connecting.the.Dots
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Path to Green Card for Illegal Immigrant Family Members of Americans — Obama administration officials announced on Friday that they will propose a fix to a notorious snag in immigration law that will spare hundreds of thousands of American citizens from prolonged separations from immigrant spouses and children.
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Washington Monthly and Colorlines
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Obama rule would let undocumented stay in U.S. during application
Obama rule would let undocumented stay in U.S. during application
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Jammie Wearing Fools
Susan Walsh / Latino.FoxNews.com:
Obama Administration Plans Immigration Rule Change
Obama Administration Plans Immigration Rule Change
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The Raw Story and Right Wing News
The Boston Globe:
For vision and national unity, Huntsman for GOP nominee — DISSATISFACTION WITH the economy, expressed in spasms of anger toward Wall Street and Washington; the dashed hopes of many who believed that Barack Obama's election would create a new spirit of unity; and genuine uncertainty …
Reuters:
Special report: Romney's steel skeleton in the Bain closet — (Reuters) - It was funny at first. — The young men in business suits, gingerly picking their way among the millwrights, machinists and pipefitters at Kansas City's Worldwide Grinding Systems steel mill.
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ThinkProgress and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Jason Mattera / Human Events:
Rubio in letter to Obama: You are turning America into a ‘deadbeat nation’ — In a scathing letter sent to Barack Obama this morning, Senator Marco Rubio said that under the President's first term in office, “more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation.”
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Campaign 2012
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Short NBC gig for Chelsea? — Chelsea Clinton's much-trumpeted deal with NBC seems to be nearly done. Her contract is for only 90 days, and while she'll provide the network with two more stories, sources say it is not certain she'll immediately sign again.
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Business Insider, Jammie Wearing Fools and Althouse
Elicia Dover / ABCNEWS:
Gingrich's NAACP, Food Stamp Remarks Stir Controversy — Manchester, N.H.— The blogosphere piled up with headlines Thursday over a part of Newt Gingrich's campaign speech involving food stamps and the NAACP, which left the Gingrich campaign scrambling in defense to put Gingrich's comments in context.
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The Hinterland Gazette, Outside the Beltway and ThinkProgress
Irene / Judicial Watch:
DOJ Steers Countrywide Settlement Cash To Leftist Groups With Dem Ties — The untold story of the Obama Administration's widely reported, $335 million discrimination settlement with Countrywide Financial Corporation is that, under a secret Justice Department program, a chunk of the money won't go to the …