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Newt May Be Mad and Mental Enough to Fight On Long After Florida — For some churchgoers, the attendance of Sunday morning services is a ritual rooted in reflection, for others in repentance, for others in rejoicing, and for still others in all three. But for Newt Gingrich …
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InsiderAdvantage Poll: Gingrich Surging, Race ‘Tighter Than Expected’ — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted Sunday night of likely Republican voters …
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Swing States poll: Romney and Obama tied; Gingrich trails — WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney essentially ties Barack Obama in the nation's key battlegrounds, a USA TODAY/Gallup Swing States survey finds, while rival Newt Gingrich now trails the president by a decisive 14 percentage points.
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Romney Romps To 14-Point Lead In Florida GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a 43 - 29 percent lead over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich among Republican likely voters in Florida, the nation's first big-state presidential primary …
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Washington Post, Florida Times Union and National Review


Newt Gingrich's long march — LUTZ, Fla. - Mitt Romney and much of the GOP establishment may be exultant over Newt Gingrich's likely defeat here Tuesday, but the former speaker has a message for his detractors: he's not going anywhere. — Gingrich is making the case that Romney …

Romney, Eyeing Blowout, Keeps Foot To Newt's Neck
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Florida Fever: Naples Struck by Sudden Outbreak of Raging Mitt-Mania Epidemic
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American Spectator, Riehl World View, LifeNews.com, ABCNEWS, Outside the Beltway and Race 4 2012

Gingrich accuses Romney of ‘carpet bombing’ opponents; Rep. Paul Ryan talks debt reduction
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ThinkProgress and Campaign 2012

Poll: Romney expands Florida lead over Gingrich
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Washington Post, The Raw Story, CBS News and Marist Poll

Gingrich Predicts ‘Straight-Out Contest’ for Months
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Race 4 2012, Wake up America, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Washington Post

Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. — President Obama ran — and won — in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country. But, each of his first three years in office have marked historic highs in political polarization, with Democrats largely approving of him and Republicans deeply disapproving.
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Rick Santorum's daughter improving — PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — Rick Santorum said Sunday night that his daughter Bella has experienced a “miraculous turnaround” since being diagnosed with pneumonia earlier in the weekend. — On a telephone town hall for Florida voters, the former Pennsylvania senator …
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Rick Santorum Says Daughter Bella Has a ‘Miraculous Turnaround’
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Bella Santorum Hospitalized Because of Pneumonia
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The Austerity Debacle — Last week the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a British think tank, released a startling chart comparing the current slump with past recessions and recoveries. It turns out that by one important measure — changes in real G.D.P. since the recession began …
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U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies Provoke Outrage in Iraq — BAGHDAD — A month after the last American troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as well as American personnel.
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How conservatives lost their moral compass — There's irony here in that liberals have viewed shame as a conservative ally. They associated it with Puritans and the puritanical who used shame, liberals said, to bludgeon people into moralistic behavior that denied their real passions and interests.


Jeb Bush Remains Silent on Endorsement — MIAMI — A steady stream of endorsements has been flowing to Mitt Romney, with his campaign promoting Republicans who are giving their blessing to his presidential candidacy. Yet on the eve of the Florida primary, he has been unable to land the biggest catch of all: Jeb Bush.
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GOP 12, Campaign 2012 and The Caucus


UN panel aims for ‘a future worth choosing’ — Current patterns of consumption are not sustainable, the panel concludes, without major change — Growing inequality, environmental decline and “teetering” economies mean the world must change the way it does business, a UN report concludes.
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Pirate's Cove, Biased BBC and Truthdig

E.U. Leaders Set to Admit Austerity Is Not Enough — BRUSSELS — Bowing to mounting evidence that austerity alone cannot solve the debt crisis, European leaders are expected to conclude this week that what the debt-laden, sclerotic countries of the Continent need are a dose of economic growth.
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Angry about inequality? Don't blame the rich. — There is no doubt that incomes are unequal in the United States — far more so than in most European nations. This fact is part of the impulse behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose members claim to represent the 99 percent of us against the wealthiest 1 percent.
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Inflation expectations and the Fed
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TRENDING: Priebus: Obama's our Capt. Schettino — (CNN) - The chairman of the Republican National Committee unveiled his latest attack on President Barack Obama on Sunday, comparing him to the captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship. — When asked if the infighting …
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RNC Chairman Priebus likens Obama to Italian cruise ship captain
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