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Romney: Politics For The Rich — His father told him he shouldn't go into politics if he had a mortgage to pay. Most people have mortgages to pay. — (Reuters / JIM BOURG) — Mitt Romney suggested in today's debate that only rich people should run for office, and then quickly celebrated …
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Stephanopoulos struggles with fairness during NH debate — ABC News commentator George Stephanopoulos directed pointed, hard-edged questions to Republican presidential candidates during Saturday night's New Hampshire debate, often attacking without providing evidence to justify his broadsides.
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Campaign 2012, Wake up America, Wizbang, The Gateway Pundit, NO QUARTER, Doug Ross, The Lonely Conservative and Instapundit

Romney's Inexplicable Debate Fibs — Why not just tell the truth? The odd, small shadings of truth were the talk of the spin room in Concord after Sunday's debate. — (AP / Elise Amendola) — CONCORD, New Hampshire — Mitt Romney's generally strong debate performance was marred …
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Weekly Standard and Power Line


Why Mitt Romney Didn't Get Attacked In Saturday Night's Debate — The assumption was that Saturday's ABC/WMUR debate was going to produce some serious fireworks. — After all, you have a front-runner who is quickly assuming the mantle of the “inevitable” nominee.
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Romney: elected office is for the rich — About 10 hours after last night's debate, the six Republican presidential candidates met again this morning for another debate, this time sponsored by NBC and Facebook. — This one was far livelier than its predecessor — maybe the GOP field …
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The Reaction, Booman Tribune and No More Mister Nice Blog

Anti-Romney Movie Attacks to Bain Career — Supporters of Newt Gingrich have bought the rights to a new short movie that is very critical of Mitt Romney's tenure as head of Bain Capital. — Romney's business career made him a very wealthy man, but has come under some criticism because Bain bought …
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Mediaite, TomDispatch and The Gateway Pundit


Romney Trips On Contraception Question: 'It's Working Just Fine, Just Leave It Alone' — At tonight's ABC News/WMUR Republican presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney stumbled badly on a Constitutional question …
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Los Angeles Times, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Daily Caller

Marriage Equality Opponent Mitt Romney To Gay People: 'I Don't Discriminate'
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Team Romney: Steph ‘obsessed’ with contraception
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Romney Eludes Rivals' Attacks at Republican Debate in N.H.
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GOP Candidates Condemn Same-Sex Marriage In New Hampshire Debate
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Reuters, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, Poliglot, Truth Wins Out and Steve Rothaus' Gay …

Sunday debate offers GOP hopeful second chance at fireworks
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Washington Monthly, Slate, The Gateway Pundit and Reuters

New Hampshire primary: Mitt Romney rises above squabbling pack
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Mitt Romney under attack from other GOP candidates ahead of N.H. debate
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, State of the Union, New York Times, The Page and ABCNEWS

Romney's private sector record cross-examined in NH Republican debate
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Billionaire Adelson gives millions to Gingrich Super PAC — Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has given $5 million to an independent committee supporting GOP presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich, the first of what is expected to be many millions the Las Vegas billionaire plans to spend this election year.
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GOP debate: Gingrich, Romney trade barbs over super-PAC ads
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ThinkProgress and CBS News

Social conservatives start to coalesce around Santorum
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Romney up in South Carolina
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2012 Decoded, Guardian, Taylor Marsh and Weekly Standard

Ex-Times Editorial Page Editor Tony Blankley dead at 63 — Tony Blankley, a noted conservative author and commentator and former editorial page editor of The Washington Times, died Sunday morning, according to family sources. He was 63 and had been battling stomach cancer.
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The Sundries Shack and Outside the Beltway


Romney Is the Main Target in a Caustic G.O.P. Debate — CONCORD, N.H. — The five major Republican presidential candidates who are not named Mitt Romney ferociously attacked him during a debate here Sunday morning, questioning his conservative credentials, his authenticity and even his honesty …
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MSNBC chief: No decision on Pat Buchanan's return — (AP) PASADENA, Calif. — MSNBC's top executive said Saturday that he hasn't decided whether conservative commentator and author Pat Buchanan will be allowed back on the network. — Buchanan, a former GOP presidential candidate …
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The Grating Santorum — MANCHESTER, N.H. — RICK SANTORUM was locking down the youth vote. — The man who fondly recalls nuns rapping his knuckles with rulers did some verbal knuckle-rapping of his own on Thursday with students at a forum in Concord hosted by New England College.
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The Other McCain, Datechguy's Blog and Prairie Weather

The zero lower bound in our minds — PRIOR to the crisis, there was a general (if tenuous) accord among macroeconomists of many different stripes, that the Federal Reserve could and would act to stabilise the economy when necessary. Then, in December of 2008, the Fed hit the zero lower bound …
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Economist's View, Tim Duy's Fed Watch, EconLog and ParaPundit

2012 ABC/Yahoo!/WMUR New Hampshire GOP primary debate (Transcript) — SAWYER: And good evening to all of you. Welcome to Saint Anselm College and the first debate of the year, 2012. The voting is underway. And, George, those eight votes in Iowa reminded us on Tuesday every vote counts.
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