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2:45 PM ET, January 6, 2012

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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.
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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
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 …
Adam Sorensen / Swampland:
TIME/CNN/ORC Poll: Romney Storms Ahead in South Carolina  —  In another sign of the front-runner's growing strength.  Mitt Romney has taken the lead in South Carolina, according to a TIME/CNN/ORC poll released Friday.  —  The poll, which surveyed likely primary voters on Wednesday and Thursday …
Rasmussen Reports:
New Hampshire: Romney 42%, Paul 18%, Santorum 13%, Huntsman 12%
ABCNEWS:   Gingrich on Romney Debating the President: ‘Obama is Going to Laugh at Him’
Wall Street Journal:
Romney Wins but Takes a Beating
Discussion: Eunomia and GOP 12
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
Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
Unemployment Rate Drop Is for Real
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Economy adds 200K new jobs, unemployment falls to 8.5 percent
Discussion: Campaign 2012
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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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Obama to make major green-card reform
Time:
Admin. Plans Change in Immigration Rule
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
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.
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.”
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Scott Rothschild / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Speaker O'Neal apologizes for forwarding email that calls Michelle Obama “Mrs. YoMama”  —  Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal, right, forwarded an email referring to First Lady Michelle Obama as “Mrs. YoMama.”  His office says it was a political cartoon, and O'Neal should not be criticized for sending the email.
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.
Discussion: driftglass
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Newt: Obama will ‘laugh’ at Mitt  —  Newt Gingrich said Friday that if Mitt Romney becomes the Republican presidential nominee, President Barack Obama will simply “laugh at him.”  —  “As people look at his record and they imagine him debating Obama, Obama's going to laugh at him,” Gingrich said on ABC's “Good Morning America.”
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Romney hits Obama's economic record despite improving jobs numbers
Discussion: The Politico
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.
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.
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama takes victory lap  —  Two days after defying Republicans and appointing Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama took a little time to gloat.  —  Making a victory lap of sorts at the independent agency, Obama cracked a joke …
Discussion: The Politico and Weasel Zippers
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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Occupiers for Huntsman, Part II: “Of Course Corporations Are Not People”
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Students Laugh When Obama Tells Them “You Inspire Me”
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Irene / Judicial Watch:
DOJ Steers Countrywide Settlement Cash To Leftist Groups With Dem Ties
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Private sector jobs looking much stronger
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