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Florida Primary Overview and Forecast — The shift away from Newt Gingrich in the Florida polls has been as significant as the one toward him in South Carolina. The first two polls released after South Carolina showed Mr. Gingrich with a lead of 8 and 9 points, respectively.
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Romney's Fight to Win Comes at a Cost, Polls Show
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Florida Polls Open as Gingrich Tries to Galvanize Conservatives
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Daily Kos, The Caucus and Reuters

Romney says Google+ interview shows Obama ‘out of touch’ on economy
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Romney Plays Victim On Negative Ads: I'm Just Responding To Gingrich's Attacks
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Newt Gingrich Robocall: Mitt Romney Forced Holocaust Survivors To Eat Non-Kosher Food … REACT: — FOLLOW: — 2012 Election, Newt Gingrich 2012, Elections 2012, Video, FL Election, FL Election 2012, FL Primary, FL Primary 2012, FL Primary Election 2012, Florida Primary, Florida Election …
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Did Romney Eliminate Kosher Nursing Home Food as Governor? — During the weekend, the New York Post reported that Mitt Romney vetoed a bill to help fund kosher food at Massachusetts nursing homes in 2003. Newt Gingrich, who happens to be courting Jewish and elderly voters in Florida …

Gingrich: ‘No idea’ about robocall on Romney, Holocaust survivors
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The Great Divorce — I'll be shocked if there's another book this year as important as Charles Murray's “Coming Apart.” I'll be shocked if there's another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society. — Murray's basic argument is not new, that America is dividing into a two-caste society.
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Our Mr. Brooks Finds Another Very Important Thinker — Occasionally, Moral Hazard, the Irish setter belonging to David Brooks, goes wandering out of the clubroom of the Young Fogies Club and down the hall into the library. It is more peaceful there. Nobody is quoting Edmund Burke.
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Cancer charity halts grants to Planned Parenthood — NEW YORK - The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates — creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.
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THE BUDGET AND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: FISCAL YEARS 2012 TO 2022 — Each January, CBO prepares “baseline” budget projections spanning the next 10 years. Those projections are not a forecast of future events; rather, they are intended to provide a benchmark against which potential policy changes can be measured.
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CBO projects $1.08 trillion deficit, 8.9 percent jobless rate in 2012
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What Caused This Year's Deficit?
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‘Everyone step on his toes!’ Gingrich security harasses Ron Paul supporter — WINDERMERE, Fla.—Next time, Eddie Dillard won't wear flip-flops. — Dillard, a 29-year-old Ron Paul supporter from this suburb near Orlando, arrived to vote at his precinct at Winderemere Baptist Church early Tuesday morning.
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Ranger zaps off-leash dog walker with shock weapon — A Montara man walking two lapdogs off leash was hit with an electric-shock gun by a National Park Service ranger after allegedly giving a false name and trying to walk away, authorities said Monday. — The park ranger encountered Gary Hesterberg …
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Breaking News- Allen West to Run for Re-Election in Different Congressional District — The Shark Tank has learned that Congressman Tom Rooney has announced that he is running for re-election to Congress in one of Florida's two newly created congressional districts, and that Congressman Allen West …
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Washington Post, Hot Air, RedState and Naked Politics
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Why Mitt Romney's Mormonism Doesn't Matter — I've never been impressed with the argument that Mitt Romney makes for a weak Republican nominee because conservatives don't like him. That's not how that party works. Like they say, “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.” Don't believe me?
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Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds — U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday.
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Issa threatens Holder with contempt over ‘Fast and Furious’ — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) threatened to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the nation's top cop doesn't hand over Justice Department documents within nine days. — Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight …
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Stephen Colbert's FEC report: Big money! — No kidding: Comedian Stephen Colbert's satirical super PAC raised some serious cash. — Between July 1 and Dec. 31, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow collected more than $825,400, ending the year with nearly $674,000 cash on hand …
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Taylor Marsh, CNN, New York Magazine, The Atlantic Online, Outside the Beltway and BuzzFeed


Wife Abuse Rap Casts Shadow On “Zeitoun” Hero — The New Orleans man whose post-Hurricane Katrina heroics and tribulations were chronicled by best-selling author Dave Eggers in the book “Zeitoun” was convicted last year of battering his wife, who told police that she had received several prior beatings …
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iOwnTheWorld.com, The Daily Caller and Atlas Shrugs

Top Obama fundraisers come from Hollywood, media — The Obama campaign provided additional details about its' $222 million fundraising haul Tuesday, revealing that many of the president's top fundraisers were leading figures in Hollywood and the media. — Among those who have raised …
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‘Bomb’ botch at LaGuardia — Clueless TSA agents found two possible pipe bombs in a passenger's luggage yesterday at La Guardia Airport — and kept them in a public area for six hours without notifying cops, The Post has learned. — The Transportation Security Administration bozos …
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Pelosi Presents Haim Saban, Hollywood with Democratic Plan to Recapture House (Exclusive) — Democratic bigwigs brief fundraisers at Saban's mansion Monday evening. — More than 50 of Los Angeles' most influential political fundraisers and consultants quietly met Monday night …
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Janet Howell, Virginia State Senator, Attaches Rectal Exam Amendment To Anti-Abortion Bill … Video , Janet Howell , Mandatory Sonogram , Mandatory Ultrasound , Mandatory Ultrasound Bill , Mandatory Ultrasound Virginia , Rectal Exam Amendment , Virginia Abortion , Virginia Mandatory Ultrasound , Politics News
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