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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Huntsman Says He's Quitting G.O.P. Race — CHARLESTON, S.C. — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina primary.
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Axelrod: Huntsman Dropped Because He Wouldn't Sell His Soul — Obama's top strategist tells BuzzFeed in an email: “He was simply unwillingly to make the Faustian bargains with the Right that Romney has so willingly made.” — Jon Huntsman's withdrawal offers an opportunity for Democrats …
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The Hinterland Gazette
NewsMax.com:
SC Poll: Romney Lead Grows, Gingrich Second — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — An exclusive InsiderAdvantage poll released Sunday night shows GOP front-runner Mitt Romney gaining …
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Wallacegw / CNN:
DeMint: I will not endorse
DeMint: I will not endorse
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Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Huntsman Leaves Race With Plea for Party Unity
Huntsman Leaves Race With Plea for Party Unity
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Huntsman Withdrawal Should Aid Romney
Huntsman Withdrawal Should Aid Romney
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Washington Examiner:
Huntsman: A boutique candidacy that didn't sell
Huntsman: A boutique candidacy that didn't sell
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Romney nabs Florida endorsement
Romney nabs Florida endorsement
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Sources: Huntsman to drop out of 2012 race tomorrow, endorse Romney
Sources: Huntsman to drop out of 2012 race tomorrow, endorse Romney
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Washington Post:
Jon Huntsman quits Republican presidential race, endorses Mitt Romney
Jon Huntsman quits Republican presidential race, endorses Mitt Romney
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Huntsman to exit, back Romney
Huntsman to exit, back Romney
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Fox News:
Huntsman to withdraw from race for Republican presidential nomination
Huntsman to withdraw from race for Republican presidential nomination
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Juana Summers / The Politico:
Jon Huntsman drops out, endorses Mitt Romney
Jon Huntsman drops out, endorses Mitt Romney
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Beast:
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics — The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he's a wimp. Andrew Sullivan on how the president may just end up outsmarting them all. — You hear it everywhere.
Daily Mail:
Forget women and children first. Burly crew men led the race for the lifeboats — Survivors tell of panic as men ignore order that women and children should go first and passengers fight to get on boats — Foreign Secretary William Hague says all British passengers and crew have been accounted for and are safe
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The Atlantic Online:
The Wreck of the Costa Concordia — On the night of Friday, January 13, the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, with more than 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members on board, struck a reef, keeled over, and partially sank off Isola del Giglio, Italy. Six people are now confirmed dead …
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Fox News:
Fox News Poll raw data: Romney hits record high, but still tied with Obama — While far more Republican primary voters view Rick Santorum as the true conservative, Mitt Romney has become the clear leader in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a just-released Fox News poll.
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Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
GOP poll: Gingrich wins for ‘nastiest’ campaign
GOP poll: Gingrich wins for ‘nastiest’ campaign
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Holder: Same voting issues as MLK — Attorney General Eric Holder used Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on the anniversary of the civil rights leader's birthday Monday to emphasize the Obama administration's dedication to protecting the American people from discriminatory voting practices.
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Mj Lee / Reuters:
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Talk race at GOP debate
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Talk race at GOP debate
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Jobs take center stage in Keystone fight — When U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue proclaimed that the Keystone XL pipeline would create 250,000 jobs, he touched a nerve in the environmental community. — “That's just not true,” Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director …
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Activists say pro-Santorum vote was rigged — A civil war is breaking out among evangelical leaders over allegations of a rigged election and ballot stuffing at a Saturday gathering of religious and social conservatives. — At the meeting about 150 religious conservative activists at the Benham …
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New York Post:
The strange birth of NY's gun laws — Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of firearms they had legal permits to carry back home.
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Scott Walker Recall Drive Is Closely Watched — MILWAUKEE — Thousands of volunteers have raced to collect signatures near busy intersections and malls all over Wisconsin, at makeshift “drive-through” operations in parking lots, during Green Bay Packers viewing parties and New Year's Eve pub crawls …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
CNN amplifies Romney's bogus jobs claims — Yesterday the Romney campaign distributed a memo to reporters that attacked Obama's record on jobs as a “failure.” To support this conclusion, the memo cited, among other things, the “net” job loss that has occurred on Obama's watch.
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NY Daily News:
$44 million bill from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital — ‘System error’ is blamed — Alexis Rodriguez got a bill exeeding $44 million for Bronx-Lebanon Hospital outpatient services. — The hospital cured his pneumonia, but the bill — for an eye-popping $44 million — made him sick.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Fares the Dream? — “I have a dream,” declared Martin Luther King, in a speech that has lost none of its power to inspire. And some of that dream has come true. When King spoke in the summer of 1963, America was a nation that denied basic rights to millions of its citizens, simply because their skin was the wrong color.
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