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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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Santorum Says Romney's ‘I Like Being Able to Fire People’ Moment ‘Not a Good Message’ to Voters — MANCHESTER, NH - Scrappy insurgent Rick Santorum today told ABC News that Mitt Romney's “I like being able to fire people who provide me services” comment might say something to voters about how the frontrunner sees the world.
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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 …
Reuters:
Romney well ahead of Republicans, trails Obama: Poll — (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has sailed farther ahead of rival Republican candidates nationally but still trails President Barack Obama in the White House race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday.
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Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
N.H. Primary: Mitt Romney the Clear Front-Runner — In what is expected to be a record Republican primary, Mitt Romney started off with an edge over his rivals in the first handful of votes cast today in New Hampshire. — The small village of Dixville Notch, population nine, kicked off the nation's first primaries this morning.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Fighting on Democrats' turf — Take a guess who said this yesterday: “Voters are just now meeting the Real Romney — the buyout tycoon who executed takeovers, bankrupted businesses, and sent jobs overseas while killing American jobs.” — MoveOn.org? No, it was Rick Perry.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
A Slate resident feminist hears Gov. Christie talking about oral sex when he's obviously not. — What a joke! Christie — responding to hecklers who used the words “going down” in connection with jobs — said: “You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain't going to be jobs, sweetheart.”
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Aaron Carroll / The Incidental Economist:
Lots of people can't fire their insurance companies — Governor Romney is getting a lot of heat for a line that appears to have been taken out of context. I'd like to talk about it in context. I think that's much more illuminating: … Gov. Romney is not saying that he enjoys telling people that they no longer have a job.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Why You Cannot Say You ‘Like’ Firing People
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Serafin Gomez / Fox News:
Romney Defends ‘Fire People’ Remark, Says Comments Taken Out of Context
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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.
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: 10th Circuit Court Of Appeals Declares Oklahoma's Sharia Ban Unconstitutional — The 10th Circuit Court Of Appeals struck down Oklahoma's ban on Sharia law today, declaring that the Sooner State's move violated the United States Constitution. — In November 2010 …
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Denver Post, Applesauce and Daily Kos
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama picks immigration reform advocate to lead domestic policy — President Obama has picked a strong advocate of immigration reform to head the Domestic Policy Council. — The White House announced Tuesday that Cecilia Muñoz, a former senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza …
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Paul Krugman:
Businessmen and Economics — A brief thought on something I'll try to expand on later. Leaving aside all the questions about what Mitt Romney did or didn't do at Bain — and about his self-aggrandizing double standard — there's an even broader question: why does anyone believe that success …
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Lisa Rogers / Gadsden Times:
Man in custody after shootout with police in Alabama City — A man thought to be an Islamic extremist is believed to have shot the windows out of at least two businesses in Alabama City early Sunday to lure police officers to the area and engage them in a shootout.
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Jihad Watch, The Camp Of The Saints and Atlas Shrugs
Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake:
NC Elections Official Resigns Rather than Facilitate the Marriage Discrimination Amendment — This thunderous letter of support for equality was sent to PHB and BlueNC by Sherre Toler, who, until last week was the director of elections for Harnett County in my state.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Stephanopoulos Standard — Republicans can turn media bias to their advantage. — A funny thing happened on the way to the New Hampshire primary: ABC moderator George Stephanopoulos embarrassed himself on national television with questions plainly intended to embarrass the Republican candidates.
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Don Surber and Vodkapundit
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney and 100,000 jobs: an untenable figure — “In the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.” — Last week, when we first looked …
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The Crisis We Should Have Had … - Ron Paul's Quest for Victory, Also Known As “Second Place” - Lithwick: The Pressure Is on the Supreme Court To Solve the Nutty Texas Redistricting Fiasco — Why the Economy Is Still Such a Mess: Banks Won't Give Loans to Small Businesses …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Economic Confidence Rises to Seven-Month High — Americans' outlook for the economy is improving faster than their ratings of current conditions — PRINCETON, NJ — The Gallup Economic Confidence Index improved to -27 in the week ending Jan. 8, continuing the steady improvement …
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American Prospect, Real Time Economics and The Monkey Cage
citypaper.net:
Gov. Corbett declares war on food stamps — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett has announced a major assault on the food stamp program that feeds 1.8 million Pennsylvanians, including 439,245 in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare announced that on May 1 …
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New York Times:
A Big Check, and Gingrich Gets a Big Lift — MANCHESTER, N.H. — For weeks this winter, as Newt Gingrich's presidential hopes faltered under the weight of millions of dollars in attack ads paid for by backers of Mitt Romney, a small group of Gingrich supporters quietly lobbied for help …
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Washington Post:
For women in business, the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease — This piece is the first in a three-part series of myth busters about women in business, authored by Catalyst's Nancy Carter and Christine Silva. — The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as the saying goes. But is this true for women in business?
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Feministing, The Raw Story, ThinkProgress and The Huffington Post
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama 2012: 'Osama Bin Laden Will Never Again Walk the Face of This Earth. That's What Change Is.' — At a campaign event this evening at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., President Obama indicated that he had successfully brought about “change”—an ambiguous 2008 campaign promise …
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iOwnTheWorld.com, Weasel Zippers and American Spectator
Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:
Companies Face Fines for Not Using Unavailable Biofuel — WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.
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The Jawa Report and The Enterprise Blog
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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FlashReport, The Politico, The Hill, Daily Kos and Washington Post
American Prospect:
A Contradiction, Without Comment — Without issuing an explanation, yesterday the Supreme Court upheld a federal law banning resident aliens from making campaign contributions. It is regrettable but perhaps telling that the Court chose not to explain why it agreed with the lower court …
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