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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
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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Susan Page / USA Today:
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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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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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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Jonathan Martinand Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
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 …
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney, Eyeing Blowout, Keeps Foot To Newt's Neck
Romney, Eyeing Blowout, Keeps Foot To Newt's Neck
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Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Gingrich accuses Romney of ‘carpet bombing’ opponents; Rep. Paul Ryan talks debt reduction
Gingrich accuses Romney of ‘carpet bombing’ opponents; Rep. Paul Ryan talks debt reduction
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Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Poll: Romney expands Florida lead over Gingrich
Poll: Romney expands Florida lead over Gingrich
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Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire:
Gingrich Predicts ‘Straight-Out Contest’ for Months
Gingrich Predicts ‘Straight-Out Contest’ for Months
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
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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Andrew Burton / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Says Daughter Bella Has a ‘Miraculous Turnaround’
Rick Santorum Says Daughter Bella Has a ‘Miraculous Turnaround’
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Andrew Burton / ABCNEWS:
Bella Santorum Hospitalized Because of Pneumonia
Bella Santorum Hospitalized Because of Pneumonia
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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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Prairie Weather
Rick Pleasures / The Politico:
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.
New York Times:
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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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S. … Speaking to a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach for the Palm Beach County GOP, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) fired off a humdinger of a line that within minutes drew recriminations from Democrats on Twitter.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Allen West being redistricted out of existence in effort led by Romney Florida spokesman
Allen West being redistricted out of existence in effort led by Romney Florida spokesman
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
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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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Florida Fever: Naples Struck by Sudden Outbreak of Raging Mitt-Mania Epidemic — Mitt Romney at Naples rally, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 — Attention young conservatives: Your grandma loves Mitt Romney. — The phenomenal shift in the polls here in the Sunshine State …
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Richard Black / BBC:
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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Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News:
Mitt Romney picks up Jon Voight's endorsement-and jokes about Angelina Jolie — PENSACOLA, Fla.—The run-up to Florida's Republican presidential primary has already been weird, thanks in part to an extended debate over whether there should be a colony on the moon. On Saturday, it got a little weirder.
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James Q. Wilson / Washington Post:
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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James Hamilton / Econbrowser:
Inflation expectations and the Fed
Inflation expectations and the Fed
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Brad DeLong, Business Insider and Economist's View