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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.
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Mitt Romney vs. the dead-enders — HOOKSETT, N.H. - Any remotely sympathetic observer would have to say that Mitt Romney easily cleared the bar on what he needed to do in the New Hampshire primary, and in the process took a big step toward the Republican presidential nomination.
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A tale of two speeches — After watching Mitt Romney's speech in New Hampshire last night, I went back and watched Barack Obama's speech in New Hampshire, delivered almost exactly four years ago. The contrast told me quite a bit about the two candidates. — Obama, who'd just lost …
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Romney Looks Strong in South Carolina and Beyond — The conventional wisdom holds that South Carolina is likely to be the toughest test yet for Mitt Romney's campaign. But I'm not so sure that's true. From my vantage point, Mr. Romney's position there looks fairly robust.
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ABCNEWS, New York Times, The Politico, Washington Post, The Caucus, Daily Kos, Democratic Strategist, Politics and Saint Petersblog


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.

Pro-Romney group raises ad budget to $3.4M in Florida — Restore Our Future, an outside group backing Mitt Romney's candidacy, has increased its ad spending in Florida to $3.4 million, the group confirmed to The Hill Wednesday morning. — The ad buy is significant, and the group …
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Mitt Romney: N.H. shows Bain attacks flopped — Mitt Romney made the rounds on the morning shows Wednesday, saying the New Hampshire primary results show the Bain attacks against him just don't work given the poor showings by Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. — Romney said rivals criticizing …


Romney and McCain: The GOP Frenemies' Club
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Conservative activists scramble to stop Mitt Romney
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hit & Run, Daily Kos and The Politico

Mitt Romney still must answer 5 questions after New Hampshire
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Rally will feature Gingrich, Clyburn
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Barack Hussein Gingrich
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Los Angeles Times, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller and Big Government

Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist — LONDON — At a time of growing tension over its nuclear program and mounting belligerence toward the West, Iran reported on Wednesday that an Iranian nuclear scientist died in what was termed a “terrorist bomb blast” …
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Iran car explosion ‘kills nuclear scientist’ in Tehran — BBC's Mohsen Asgari: “It seems a motor cyclist pasted a bomb to his car which he was in with two other passengers — A university lecturer and nuclear scientist has been killed in a car explosion in north Tehran, reports say.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, nation.foxnews.com and The Gateway Pundit

First Thoughts: Next up: The last stand — Next up: The last stand of South Carolina... And it's likely to get nasty there... How will Romney emerge 10 days for now: battered or the de facto nominee?... The message that could take on Romney (but is there a messenger to deliver it?)...
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The Political Carnival and ABCNEWS
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Santorum gambles, and loses, in NH
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The State, NY Daily News, msnbc.com and CNN

GOP race moves south after Romney wins New Hampshire
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msnbc.com, Pirate's Cove, CBS Seattle and Ballot Box


Obama Scores Easy Win; Rivals Pick Up 18% of N.H. Vote — While few noticed, President Barack Obama cruised to an easy victory in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, though a baker's dozen of others on the ballot and write-in candidates garnered about 18% of the vote.
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Biden Jabs Romney, Compares Republican Candidates to ‘Brush’
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Mitt Romney's victory speech
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Mitt Romney's New Hampshire primary speech (TEXT)
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Crooks and Liars, The Huffington Post, The Enterprise Blog, FiveThirtyEight and Feministing


In Greece, fears that austerity is killing the economy — ATHENS — Deeply indebted and nearly bankrupt, this Mediterranean nation was forced to adopt tough austerity measures to slash its deficit and secure an international bailout. But as the Greek economy slides into free fall …
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Firedoglake, Paul Krugman and ECHIDNE of the snakes


About New York: Belgian Tourist Arrested, but Crime Never Happened — Just before he was loaded into the police car, Aaron Vansintjan said, one of the officers looked at him. — “He said, 'I'm embarrassed,' ” Mr. Vansintjan said. — That was no obstacle to a bad situation's getting more perplexing by the minute.

Are Quotas for Women in Politics a Good Idea? — Pros and cons of requiring national parliaments to include a minimum number of women — Afghan parliamentary delegates wait for the start of a conference in Bonn, Germany / Reuters — MORE FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
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John Castle, 76-Year-Old Palm Beach Plutocrat, Breaks Insolent Waiter's Finger — It's an age-old and vexing question: How much is it fair to shave off the tip at a high-end restaurant to signal dissatisfaction with the waitstaff? Two percent? Five percent? Should you stiff them?
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