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Los Angeles Times:
Rick Santorum focuses on gay marriage — He suggests to a New Hampshire audience that an imprisoned father is preferable to a same-sex parent. — Mitt Romney leaves a campaign event outside an old peanut warehouse in Conway, S.C. (David Goldman, AP / January 6, 2012)
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msnbc.com:
NBC/Marist Poll: Romney has 20-point lead in N.H.; Santorum gets Iowa bounce — A new NBC News-Marist poll of NH Republicans shows Romney with a 20-point lead. NBC's Chuck Todd reports. — Just four days until Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney …
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The Moderate Voice, Franklin Center, Outside the Beltway and 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com
ABCNEWS:
Republican Candidates Ready to Rumble in Key New Hampshire Debate — CHICAGO - With the race for the Republican presidential nomination at its most critical moment to date, only days before the crucial New Hampshire primary, the six candidates will square off Saturday night in Manchester …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney pushing for four-state streak to steamroll GOP opponents — TILTON, N.H. — After preparing for a drawn-out nominating battle that would stretch well into the spring, Mitt Romney's campaign is now quietly shifting gears in an effort to steamroll his underfunded opponents …
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Campaign 2012, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and American Power
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Michelle Obama and the Evolution of a First Lady — Michelle Obama was privately fuming, not only at the president's team, but also at her husband. — In the days after the Democrats lost Edward Kennedy's Senate seat in January 2010, Barack Obama was even-keeled as usual in meetings …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
‘The Obamas’: Book Reveals Friction Between Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Obama (UPDATE) … Barack Obama , Michelle Obama , Rahm Emanuel , White House , Obama , Video , Jodi Kantor , Obama White House , The Obamas , Obama Marriage , Obamas Marriage , The Obamas Jodi Kantor , Politics News
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
All We Are Saying . . . The establishment usually wins. That, after all, is what it means to be an establishment. But not always. Three of the last six presidents—Jimmy Carter in 1976, Ronald Reagan in 1980, and Barack Obama in 2008—ran against their own party's powerbrokers …
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Washington Monthly
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Government: The redistributionist behemoth — Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today's redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself.
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Campaign 2012 and Maggie's Farm
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Rick Santorum's baby—and mine. — The latest intra-pundit flap of Campaign 2012: a couple of my liberal colleagues have called Rick and Karen Santorum “crazy,” or “very weird” for wrapping and caressing the body of their baby, who died only two hours after emerging from 20 weeks in utero …
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Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
New Paul S.C. ad hits Santorum on ‘betrayal’
New Paul S.C. ad hits Santorum on ‘betrayal’
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Ron Paul Suggests Third Party Presidential Run Still An Option
WMUR:
Poll: Romney Holds Onto Big Lead In NH
Poll: Romney Holds Onto Big Lead In NH
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ABCNEWS, Scared Monkeys, Gallup, New York Times, Daily Kos, Hot Air, The Hill and Rasmussen Reports
The Right Scoop:
Hilarious! McCain mistakenly refers to Romney as Obama — Oh man, this is classic. McCain totally referred to Romney as “President Obama” and went on for a few seconds before Gov. Haley corrected him. Hilarious! You know what they say about drunk people being more truthful, right?
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Barry Rubin / RubinReports:
Why Is an Anti-American Islamist Obama's Favorite Middle East Leader? — This article was published in a very different form in the Jerusalem Post. I own the rights and ask you to read and link to this version. — For the first time in forty years,Israel is not the American president's favorite Middle Eastern ally.
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Power Line and Israpundit
Sydney Morning Herald:
Climate change castaways consider move to Australia — Ben Doherty in Male, Maldives — Threat ... much of the Maldives could be lost to climate change. — THE President of what could be the first country in the world lost to climate change has urged Australia to prepare for a mass wave …
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Pirate's Cove, Fausta's Blog, Tim Blair and ThinkProgress
CNN:
U.S. Navy rescues Iranian sailors — From Larry Shaughnessy, CNN Pentagon Producer — (CNN) — U.S. sailors from a carrier strike group whose recent presence in the Persian Gulf drew the ire of Iranian military officials have rescued 13 of the Middle Eastern country's sailors from a hijacked fishing boat …
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Universal Uclick / uExpress:
SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES UNITE FOR SANTORUM — On Tuesday night in Iowa, he stood before the cheering throngs like a Republican Rocky, or better yet, a latter-day Rudy suddenly lifted above his Notre Dame teammates in a fantastic storybook finish. — On Tuesday night, for the first time, Rick Santorum was a contender.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, National Review and Balloon Juice
Elizabeth McNeil / People.com:
Kristy McNichol Wants to ‘Be Open About Who I Am’ — Kristy McNichol has been out of the public eye for 20 years. Now she's chosen to come out - to try to help kids who are being bullied. — McNichol, 49, who has lived with her partner Martie Allen, also 49, for the past two decades …
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Jill Schlesinger / CBS News:
December employment report: 200K new jobs, 8.5% unemployment — 2011 ended on a high note for jobs. The December jobs report showed that 200,000 new jobs were created in the month, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5, the lowest rate since February 2009.
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Crooks and Liars, Political Mojo, New York Times, Calculated Risk and The Raw Story
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Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
Jobs Report, Second Impressions: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Jobs Report, Second Impressions: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bain, Barack and Jobs — America's recovery from recession has been so slow that it mostly doesn't seem like a recovery at all, especially on the jobs front. So, in a better world, President Obama would face a challenger offering a serious critique of his job-creation policies, and proposing a serious alternative.
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