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12:35 AM ET, January 11, 2012

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Associated Press:
Romney wins in NH, cements front-runner position  —  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, adding to a first-place finish in last week's Iowa caucuses and establishing himself as the man to beat for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Colbert in South Carolina  —  Stephen Colbert wanted to sponsor the South Carolina Republican primary.  He wanted his name on the ballot and he wanted a referendum about whether corporations are people or only people are people.  He was rebuffed in his efforts but our team at PPP decided …
Michelle Malkin:
Romney and McCain: The GOP Frenemies' Club  —  Michael Corleone said to “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”  But what, pray tell, do we do with our frenemies?  This is the awful, election-year quandary of movement conservatives.  And everything you need to know about our heartache can be summed up in one image:
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Attack Film Depicts Romney as ‘Ruthless’ Rich  —  Mitt Romney is depicted as a financier “more ruthless than Wall Street” and a son of privilege responsible for laying off thousands of workers in a 28-minute film set to be released tomorrow in South Carolina bankrolled by supporters of Newt Gingrich.
Michael O'Brien / msnbc.com:
NBC News: Romney wins N.H. primary, Paul second  —  Elise Amendola / AP  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves to supporters at the Romney for President New Hampshire primary night victory party at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.
Zeke Miller / Politics:
Ron Paul To Everyone But Mitt: Drop Out  —  Campaign says unite behind Ron Paul to defeat Romney.  —  (Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla)  —  MANCHESTER, New Hampshire—Rep. Ron Paul's campaign called on the rest of the Republican field to drop out of the race and unite behind him in order to defeat Mitt Romney.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Hit & Run
Democracy in America:
Whose side are you on, Jon Huntsman?  —  BEFORE it was clear whether Rick Perry would stay in the race or drop out, Erick Erickson, a conservative talking head for CNN and managing editor of Redstate.com, said, “If Rick Perry leaves the Republican race, there will not be a candidate in the field …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Fox News:
Romney Wins New Hampshire Primary, Fox News Projects  —  Mitt Romney has won the New Hampshire primary, Fox News projects, notching back-to-back victories in the first two contests of the presidential nominating season.  —  Fox News also projects that Ron Paul will finish second and Jon Huntsman will finish third.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Special Editorial: From Bain to Main  —  There's a lot of silliness on all sides of the Bain Capital debate.  —  On the one hand, Newt Gingrich's attacks (and the follow-on assaults by Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry) on Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital have been unfair, over the top, and, for that matter, all over the place.
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
How to Keep Score in New Hampshire: Will Romney's Win Really Be a Victory? … - Just as it was in 2008, the Republican race in New Hampshire is effectively a six-way affair, so the comparison to 2012 in terms of Romney's percentage of the vote will be apples-to-apples.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
New Hampshire Primary Overview and Forecast
Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
Huntsman says third-place finish in NH means he'll stay in race
Discussion: CNN
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Paul defends Romney ‘fire’ comment, history at Bain
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich hits Mitt Romney on abortion in South Carolina ad
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Romney wins New Hampshire
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Reuters:
Romney well ahead of Republicans, trails Obama: Poll
Discussion: US Politics and Prairie Weather
Washington Post:
New Hampshire polls begin to close after a day of attacks on Mitt Romney
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Perry pleads for second look in South Carolina
Discussion: Saint Petersblog
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Majority of Conservatives See Romney as “Acceptable”
ABCNEWS:
Santorum Says Romney's ‘I Like Being Able to Fire People’ Moment ‘Not a Good Message’ to Voters
Discussion: The Hill
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Romney Wins NH Primary
Discussion: CNN
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Barack Hussein Gingrich  —  He's desperate, he's angry, and he's doing Romney a favor.  —  Humiliated in Iowa, a desperate and angry Newt Gingrich is taking the offensive against Mitt Romney, whom he accuses of “looting companies when he headed the Bain Capital investment firm,” …
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Web Edition:
Doomsday Clock moves to five minutes to midnight  —  It is five minutes to midnight.  Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face.  In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed.  For that reason, the Bulletin …
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 …
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 …
ABCNEWS:
Ron Paul Defends Romney, Lashes Out at His Critics  —  In an exclusive interview outside a Manchester polling place, Ron Paul lashed out at fellow Republicans for making unfair and ignorant attacks on Mitt Romney's business record.  —  “I think they're wrong.
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.
Jennifer Martinez / The Politico:
SOPA becoming election liability for backers  —  To the ranks of same-sex marriage, tax cuts and illegal immigration, add this to the list of polarizing political issues of Election 2012: the Stop Online Piracy Act.  —  The hot-button anti-piracy legislation that sparked a revolt online …
 
 
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Esther Addley / Guardian:
Muslim men accused of hate crime over anti-gay leaflet
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