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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.
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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 …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Romney and Santorum soar in South Carolina — (CNN) - Mitt Romney's numbers in South Carolina are surging, and he now has a solid lead over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new survey of likely GOP primary voters in the Palmetto state.
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The Caucus and Business Insider
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 and The Politico
Rasmussen Reports:
New Hampshire: Romney 42%, Paul 18%, Santorum 13%, Huntsman 12%
New Hampshire: Romney 42%, Paul 18%, Santorum 13%, Huntsman 12%
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Eunomia, Big Government, Campaign 2012, Taegan Goddard's …, Hot Air and GOP 12
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
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Newt: Obama will ‘laugh’ at Mitt
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A worthy challenger — After every other conservative alternative …
A worthy challenger — After every other conservative alternative …
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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
A good jobs report — and a good year
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American Prospect, Washington Monthly and New York Times
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Private sector jobs looking much stronger
Private sector jobs looking much stronger
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Brad DeLong and ThinkProgress
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
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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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
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Rick Santorum and the return of compassionate conservatism
Rick Santorum and the return of compassionate conservatism
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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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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Booed Again For Saying Gays Aren't Entitled To Marriage Or Military Service — Rick Santorum received another round of “boos” for his opposition to allowing openly gay people to serve in the military and same-sex marriage, during a town hall in Keene, New Hampshire this morning.
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Santorum Has Testy Exchange on Same-Sex Marriage
Santorum Has Testy Exchange on Same-Sex Marriage
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FiveThirtyEight, Daily Kos, American Power, M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S … and Althouse
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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Tim Mak / The Politico:
Obama to ease green-card rule?
Obama to ease green-card rule?
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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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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Brad Cooper / Kansas City Star:
Legislator apologizes for ‘YoMama’ email about first lady — Kansas legislator acknowledges forwarding email note mocking first lady's name, hair style. — Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal on Thursday apologized for an email that made fun of first lady Michelle Obama's hair style and mockingly called her “Mrs. YoMama.”
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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Jammie Wearing Fools, Business Insider and Althouse
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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The Radio Patriot and Campaign 2012
David Frum / FrumForum:
All Good Things... FrumForum launched itself almost exactly three years ago, on Inauguration Day 2009. Over the subsequent interval, our hundreds of contributors have reached more than 5 million individual readers. I like to think that together we have helped to move the national debate.
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Tom Tolan / JSOnline:
Judge rules for Walker campaign in case against state election officials — Waukesha — A judge ruled Thursday that the state Government Accountability Board needs to take more aggressive action to vet recall signatures that are expected to be submitted in two weeks against Gov. Scott Walker and other Republican office holders.
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