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Newsmax Wires / NewsMax.com:
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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Quinnipiac University:
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 …
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
An internal Gingrich campaign memo obtained by The Daily Caller shows the campaign is planning to continue long after Tuesday's Florida primary, stating simply: “this race is just getting started.” — The memo, from National Political Director Martin Baker, notes Romney's lack …
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The Politico, Business Insider, The PJ Tatler, Wake up America and Taegan Goddard's …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Remains Silent on Endorsement
Jeb Bush Remains Silent on Endorsement
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Associated Press, The New Republic, Guardian, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, GOP 12, The Caucus and Campaign 2012
Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Doing It For the Gipper: Why Old People Could Be Newt Gingrich's Saving Grace
Doing It For the Gipper: Why Old People Could Be Newt Gingrich's Saving Grace
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Washington Post, Taegan Goddard's …, ABCNEWS and Patterico's Pontifications
Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing States poll: Romney and Obama tied; Gingrich trails
Swing States poll: Romney and Obama tied; Gingrich trails
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NationalJournal.com, ABCNEWS, Ballot Box, The Moderate Voice, Viking Pundit, National Review and Race 4 2012
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Little Movement in Florida
Little Movement in Florida
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Firedoglake, The Politico, Hot Air and Daily Kos
American Prospect:
Gingrich Can't Lose! — LUTZ, FLORIDA—As Newt Gingrich plummets …
Gingrich Can't Lose! — LUTZ, FLORIDA—As Newt Gingrich plummets …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Newt May Be Mad and Mental Enough to Fight On Long After Florida
Newt May Be Mad and Mental Enough to Fight On Long After Florida
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Politics, Outside the Beltway, The Caucus, Big Government, Balloon Juice, The Reaction, No More Mister Nice Blog, Campaign 2012, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, FiveThirtyEight, Taylor Marsh, Connecting.the.Dots, Washington Post, Hot Air, Political Mojo, Booman Tribune, Althouse, USA Today and Washington Wire
Randy / Tea Party Patriots:
Gingrich Leads Tea Party Patriots Florida Straw Poll
Gingrich Leads Tea Party Patriots Florida Straw Poll
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The Hill, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Romney Ties Obama in Swing States; Gingrich Trails
Romney Ties Obama in Swing States; Gingrich Trails
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Guardian, Hot Air, Daily Kos and The Politico
Jonathan Martinand Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Newt Gingrich's long march
Newt Gingrich's long march
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CNN, Business Insider, Reuters and BuzzFeed
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.
E .J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
E.J. Dionne Jr. — Obama's breach of faith over contraceptive ruling — One of Barack Obama's great attractions as a presidential candidate was his sensitivity to the feelings and intellectual concerns of religious believers. That is why it is so remarkable that he utterly botched …
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The Huffington Post, Ross Douthat, Outside the Beltway, RedState, Political Mojo, National Review, Taylor Marsh and Prairie Weather
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Andrew Kaczynski / Politics:
When Obama Ran Against The Mandate — Democrats and conservatives alike are fond of attacking Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for their previous support of a health insurance mandate. But they're not the only flip-floppers: In 2008 President Obama, while debating his Democratic primary opponents …
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ProPublica:
Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners — by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica and Chris Arnold, NPR News … Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.
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ABCNEWS, HousingWire, Questions and Observations, The Consumerist, EconLog, Real Time Economics and ThinkProgress
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Chris Arnold / NPR:
Freddie Mac Betting Against Struggling Homeowners
Richard Hartley-Parkinson / Daily Mail:
'I'm going to destroy America and dig up Marilyn Monroe': British pair arrested in U.S. on terror charges over Twitter jokes — Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to ‘destroy America’ and ‘dig up Marilyn Monroe’.
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Obama's Bodyguard — Meet the Democratic leader who's blasting Republicans and reaching out to a peeved Congress. — The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee is running late, prepping for an MSNBC interview while she brushes her tangled mass …
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The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers and National Review
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz hits Reince Priebus on Concordia jab
Debbie Wasserman Schultz hits Reince Priebus on Concordia jab
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The Hill, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Right Wing Watch
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Racial code words obscure real issues — Two weeks ago at the Fox News/Wall Street Journal debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., I asked each GOP presidential candidate some pointed questions about the racial politics that will play a big role in the presidential campaign.
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Don Surber and Weasel Zippers
Alison Flood / Guardian:
Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values — Freedom author tells festival audience that the ‘impermanence’ of ebooks is incompatible with enduring principles — Jonathan Franzen has spoken of his fear that ebooks will have a detrimental effect on the world - and his belief that serious readers will always prefer print editions.
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Runnin' Scared and Althouse
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Anita Singh / Telegraph:
Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
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Mashable!, The Daily Dish, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and normblog
Karen Famighetti / Media Matters for America:
Wash. Post's Parker Wildly Distorts Charitable Giving Of Obama, Romney — On this morning's edition of The Chris Matthews Show, panelist Kathleen Parker claimed that Mitt Romney has “give[n] away “42 percent of his income, compared to Obama, who gave away 1 percent to charity.
Rosie Gray / Politics:
State Senator Behind “Don't Say Gay” Bill Refused Service At Restaurant — Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield, who recently said that it is “virtually impossible” to contract HIV through heterosexual sex, was kicked out of a restaurant in Knoxville. He went quietly.
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Nashville for the 21st Century, WBIR-TV, Towleroad News #gay and The Raw Story
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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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Firedoglake, Cafe Hayek, Daniel W. Drezner, TheMoneyIllusion, business.time.com, The Mahablog, Prairie Weather, TalkLeft and The Independent
Andrew Burton / ABCNEWS:
Santorum Child's ‘Miraculous’ Recovery — DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Rick Santorum made his first public comments on the health of his youngest daughter, Isabella, this evening on a tele-town hall with voters, saying she has had a “miraculous turnaround.” — “She's had a miraculous turnaround …
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USA Today, National Review, The Reaction and The Spectacle Blog
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Helia Ebrahimi / Telegraph:
Agent Provocateur sales boosted by US First Lady Michelle Obama — Agent Provocateur saw sales jump by more than 12pc, helped by US First Lady Michelle Obama spending $50,000 (£31,794) in one shopping spree. — Michelle Obama's shopping spree caused part of Madison Avenue to be closed off
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Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and Campaign 2012
Susan Edelman / New York Post:
Disgraced teacher is worth $10M, makes $100,000 a year, does nothing, & refuses to leave — Hell no, he won't go. — In a defiant raspberry to the city Department of Education — and taxpayers — disgraced teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 66, won't retire. — Deemed a danger to kids …
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