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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Majority of Conservatives See Romney as “Acceptable” — Only Romney now seen as acceptable by majority of Republicans — PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney is the now the only candidate that a majority of conservative and moderate/liberal Republicans nationwide see as an “acceptable” GOP nominee for president.
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Among GOP hopefuls, Romney fares best against Obama — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a two-point lead against President Obama …
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Josh Lederman / The Hill:
Crowd boos mentioning of McCain's name at Santorum event — SOMERSWORTH, N.H. — Drawing an implicit contrast with Mitt Romney on the eve of the first-in-the-nation primary, Rick Santorum on Monday implored New Hampshire not to settle for a centrist, establishment candidate.
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: 58% of Republicans want more presidential choices
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Torie Bosch / Slate:
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie Responds to Female Hecklers With Offensive Oral Sex Joke … - New Hampshire Debate: Gingrich Attacks Romney for His “Pious Baloney” - CBS Stakes Its Claim as the Adult Contemporary of the Network Morning Shows — Chris Christie Responds to Female Hecklers With Lame …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Why You Cannot Say You ‘Like’ Firing People — As Derek Thompson points out on our site, and as the Romney campaign will be fully justified in reiterating, obviously Mitt Romney did not mean that he enjoys the process of telling people “you're gone!” when he made his infamous “I like being able to fire people” remark in New Hampshire.
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CBS News:
Mitt Romney: “I like being able to fire people” for bad service
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Team Mitt: Free enterprise is on trial
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Sarah B. Boxer / CBS News:
Christie turns protestor's chant into anti-Obama tirade
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Emily Goodin / Ballot Box:
Romney looks forward to South Carolina
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Ann Gerhart / Washington Post:
New Hampshire polls open in Dixville Notch — with nine votes — DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — The voters of this tiny hamlet, all nine of them, have spoken. Very briefly. — The polls opened here at midnight and closed less than a minute later, and the tally was final by 12:05 a.m. On the Republican side …
Paul Bedard / US News:
Poll: Americans, 2-1, Fear Obama's Reelection — When it comes to how Americans view President Obama going into the new year, there appears to be very little spirit of Auld Lang Syne. Instead, according to the new Washington Whispers poll, many voters aren't forgetting what they dislike about Obama and want him out office.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
New Chief of Staff: Former Hedge Fund Exec. at Citigroup, Made Money Off Mortgage Defaults — President Obama's first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once sat on the board of troubled federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Bill Daley, the president's chief of staff whose departure was announced today …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Daley Stepping Down in Rare White House Shake-Up
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Texas Voting Rights Case Heard by Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — Several members of the Supreme Court appeared frustrated on Monday as they surveyed the available options and looming deadlines in a major voting rights case from Texas that could help decide control of the House.
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
What Will the Supreme Court Do in the Texas Redistricting Case?
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The Politico:
Bill Daley resignation: Why he had to go — The Bill Daley era on Monday screeched to a jarring, clattering conclusion. — Daley, who departs after a little more than a year as President Barack Obama's chief of staff, was never a great fit inside the West Wing — and Obama …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama re-election effort picks up speed amid noise of NH primary — President Obama's re-election campaign appears to be picking up speed. — Just days after administration officials said Obama wouldn't be doing much campaigning, the president appears to be doing just that and he's using …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Pain: The David Gregory Solution — Before we leave the weekend's debates behind, and in keeping with the blog's first rule of economics — Fk The Deficit. People Got No Jobs. People Got No Money. — I would be remiss not to mention the performance on Sunday of Dancin' Dave Gregory …
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Ryan Sabalow / Record Searchlight Stories:
UPDATED: Herger to announce retirement; LaMalfa to run for his seat — After a quarter century representing the north state, U.S. Rep. Wally Herger will announce today he is planning to retire at the end of his current term and state Sen. Doug LaMalfa will be running for his seat.
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Anthony Shadid / New York Times:
President Bashar al-Assad Vows to Crush ‘Conspiracy’ Against Syria — BEIRUT — In his first public address in months, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Tuesday lashed out at the Arab League for isolating Syria, taunted rebels as traitors and vowed to subdue what he cast as a foreign-backed plot against his country.
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Asad Kharal / The Express Tribune:
The name ‘Jew’ lands Christian in trouble — A man wrote that his name was ‘Jew Jurian’ on his national identity card form. The data entry clerk then assumed he was a Jew. Thus for the first time in the history of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNIC), a Pakistani was officially declared a Jew.
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Matthew Breen / Advocate:
Gayest Cities in America, 2012 — It's no secret that megalopolises New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles have robust LGBT life — and we've even heard tell of little queer hoods like the Castro and P-Town. This isn't that list. — There's the official census with information …
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BBC:
Deadly blast hits bus terminal in Khyber, Pakistan — The BBC's Aleem Maqbool: “Pakistanis over the last couple of years have become used to atrocities like this” — At least 30 people have been killed after a bomb exploded near a bus terminal in a tribal region of north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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