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11:00 PM ET, January 21, 2012

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Michael O'Brien / msnbc.com:
Gingrich wins SC GOP primary, beating Romney  —  Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary, capping off a remarkable comeback for his presidential bid that reshapes the trajectory of the battle for the GOP nomination as the race now heads to Florida and beyond.
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McKay Coppins / Politics:
BYU Students Bus In To South Carolina To Rally For Romney  —  The campaign has been buzzing about growing energy at recent events.  But it turns out, many of the candidate's most energetic fans are actually in from Provo, Virginia, or D.C.  —  (Reuters / JIM YOUNG)
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
South Carolina primary exit polls: 2/3rds say debates mattered  —  Nearly two out of three South Carolina Republican primary voters say the recent Republican presidential debates played an important factor in their decision, according to early CBS News exit polls - a good sign for Newt Gingrich …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Newt Gingrich Wins.  What It Means.  —  “The base is revolting because they swept the GOP back into relevance in Washington just under two years ago and they have been thanked with contempt ever since.”  —  No candidate has won the GOP nomination for President without winning South Carolina since Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Abby Rapoport / American Prospect:
No One Cares About the Affair  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to a crowd in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.  —  Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina—One of the larger tourist landmarks in the Charleston-area is a decommissioned warship that's been converted to a museum.
Discussion: Eschaton
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina primary, CBS News projects  —  Newt Gingrich has defeated Mitt Romney in the South Carolina Republican primary, CBS News is projecting from analysis based on exit polls and early vote totals.  Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are battling for third place.
New York Magazine:
Heilemann: USS Gingrich Now Boarding in South Carolina
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Santorum releases Florida campaign schedule just after SC polls close
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Gingrich Is Well-Positioned as South Carolina Votes
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Romney demands Gingrich release contract for Freddie Mac work
Fox News:
Gingrich, Romney in savage fight as South Carolina voters head to polls
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Doubts creep in as an awkward Mitt Romney tries not to lose the GOP nod
Charles Dharapak / ABCNEWS:
No Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich Throw Down at Tommy's Ham House
Discussion: National Review
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Not Just A Democrat Dirty Trick, But A Crime  —  A few years ago, as part of its strategy of facilitating voter fraud as a means of winning close elections, the Democratic Party undertook a campaign to secure as many Secretary of State offices in swing states as possible.
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Shane Vander Hart / Iowa Grounds:
Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz Targeted for Identity Theft by Former Obama Staffer
Discussion: Campaign 2012 and The PJ Tatler
Kevin Hall / The Iowa Republican:
Former Obama Staffer Busted for Stealing Iowa Secretary of State's Identity
Iowa Department of Public Safety:
Man Charged with Identity Theft after Falsely Implicating Secretary of State in Illegal Activity
Discussion: National Review
Charles Murray / Wall Street Journal:
The New American Divide  —  The ideal of an ‘American way of life’ is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated.  Charles Murray on what's cleaving America, and why.  —  America is coming apart.
New York Times:
The iEconomy: Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class  —  When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.  —  But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted …
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Gingrich confronted on race, agrees to meet with Sharpton  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. — Newt Gingrich was confronted by a black man outside Tommy's Country Ham House, who drilled him on his comments on having poor children work as janitors.  —  The man, who sounded like he had a northern accent …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Irony Of American History  —  I'd like to think that the Confederate Flag in the back was photo-shopped.  At any rate, what's amazing is the frame here—It's not the firing on federal property that inaugurated the War, it's Bull Run, or some such.  It's as if I punch you in the face …
Mark Silva / Bloomberg:
Jeb Bush Refrains From Endorsing Anyone  —  Jeb Bush, the popular former Florida governor, said he will “stay neutral” in the Republican presidential primary while warning his party's candidates to leave the “circular firing squad” of their primary debates behind and start appealing to a broader audience of voters.
Discussion: The Politico
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Huckabee Wants To Know If Obama Got College Loans “As A Foreign Student”  —  During a Fox News appearance this evening, Mike Huckabee suggested that Mitt Romney, who has come under fire for refusing to immediately release his tax returns, respond by challenging President Obama to release …
Fox News:
Sheila Jackson Lee: Newt Using ‘Codewords’ to be Racist  —  BASHIR: Let me play something that you said about the current GOP debate on the floor of the house on Wednesday.  Just listen.  I think what you said and what I was hoping to run is we find candidates like Newt Gingrich who simply …
Ron Edmonds / Investor's Business Daily:
Exactly 3 years in, Obama's job approval hits lowest level yet  —  Exactly three years after Aretha Franklin's hat launched the Obama administration, the Democrat's annual job approval rating has sunk to his lowest level.  —  That's not normally a good sign after 1,095 days in office.  But who's counting?
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Jason Noble / Iowa Caucuses:
Caucus results may threaten first-in-nation status
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Labor jumps into GOP primary fray
Discussion: Daily Kos and msnbc.com
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Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement
Discussion: Bits and Vox Popoli
Home Santafenewmexican.com:
Martinez says thanks, but no thanks to Republican veepstakes
CNN:
Scores dead as assailants target northern Nigerian city
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
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Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
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