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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
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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John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Romney Ramps Up Attack Ads Against Gingrich to Unprecedented Levels — In the most negative primary season ever, Mitt Romney is outspending Newt Gingrich 5 to 1 on attack ads ahead of today's primary in Florida, stopping the ex-speaker's momentum coming off a South Carolina win.
CNN:
Final poll: Early voting gives Romney a leg up in Florida — Tampa, Florida (CNN) - It's primary day in the Sunshine State, but more than 600,000 people have already voted in Florida's Republican presidential contest. And a new public opinion poll indicates that the ballots already cast …
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TalkLeft, Swampland, Little Green Footballs and The Hill
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Romney says Google+ interview shows Obama ‘out of touch’ on economy
Romney says Google+ interview shows Obama ‘out of touch’ on economy
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CNN
John Dickerson / Slate:
Mute Gingrich — How Romney stole Gingrich's voice in Florida.
Mute Gingrich — How Romney stole Gingrich's voice in Florida.
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New York Magazine, ABCNEWS, USA Today, Daily Kos, The Politico and Washington Wire
Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Gingrich: I won't debate Obama if media moderates
Gingrich: I won't debate Obama if media moderates
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Race 4 2012 and National Review
David Brooks / New York Times:
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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New York Magazine, Eunomia, Balloon Juice, The Demos Blog, Neptunus Lex, alicublog, Political Mojo, Marginal Revolution and Brad DeLong
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
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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ABCNEWS, GOP 12, American Spectator, Washington Post and The Politico
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Alana Goodman / Commentary Magazine:
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 …
Jill Tucker / San Francisco Chronicle:
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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americanthinker.com, The Jawa Report, L.A. NOW and Hit & Run
Washington Examiner:
Holder's fantastical claim about ‘Fast and Furious’ — Philosophers and poets have argued for at least three millennia about who is more valuable. Poets claim they tell tales that inspire men to do things they would otherwise never accomplish. But philosophers argue that this requires …
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Patterico's Pontifications
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Dave Levinthal / The Politico:
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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CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
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.
Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
Newt Battles Mush From the Wimps — “Ford Declares Reagan Can't Win” — Headline in The New York Times, March 1, 1980 — Yet still more mush from the wimps. — To borrow a famous Reagan phrase: “Well, there they go again.” — Somewhere an exasperated Gipper is doubtless shaking his head.
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
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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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic Online, Pat Dollard, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Corrente
Brooke Brower / msnbc.com:
CRIST: Might back Obama, run as Dem — In a rare television interview, former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who left the Republican Party during his unsuccessful 2010 U.S. Senate bid, told Chuck Todd on “The Daily Rundown” that he'd consider voting for President Obama in November. — “Consider?
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Taegan Goddard's …, The Shark Tank and The Political Carnival
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Occupy support drops more than 20 points in ... San Francisco? — One would think that the Occupy movement and San Francisco were made for each other. Perhaps at one time they were, but a new Survey USA poll shows that even the City by the Bay has its limits.
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Weasel Zippers and Campaign 2012
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Meredith May / San Francisco Chronicle:
Oakland couple Susan Poff, Robert Kamin mourned
Oakland couple Susan Poff, Robert Kamin mourned
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moonbattracker.com/wordpress, The Gateway Pundit, Verum Serum, Hyscience and Jammie Wearing Fools
Brian Fung / The Atlantic Online:
Romney and the Uncanny Valley: What Robot Theory Tells Us About the Front-Runner — Mitt Romney looks just enough like the perfect picture of an American president to make us uncomfortable. — Mitt Romney is the storybook presidential candidate. He's successful, good-looking and a family man, to boot.
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Democracy in America
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
US drone strike kills 11 AQAP leaders, fighters: report — Eleven terrorists, including four local commanders, are reported to have been killed in a US drone airstrike in a southern Yemeni province where al Qaeda's affiliate controls significant ground. — Remotely piloted Predators …
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Daily Mail, Reuters, ABCNEWS, The Enterprise Blog, Weasel Zippers and Lawfare
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Rick Perlstein / Rolling Stone:
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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Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama Tells Woman: “Interesting” Unemployed Husband Can't Find Job — During his Google+ hangout Pres. Obama tells a woman that her husband shouldn't be unemployed from the growth he has seen in the economy. Obama said he finds it “interesting” because he is getting “the word” …
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Hot Air, Post on Politics, Mediaite and National Review
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Republicans have only themselves to blame — On Saturday night, at precisely 9:19 and 30 seconds, my iPhone, my iPad, my computer and, for all I know, my toaster were informed that Herman Cain had endorsed Newt Gingrich. The ping-ping of the devices suggested that something momentous had happened …
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NewsBusters.org, Mediaite and The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
College Says It Exaggerated SAT Figures for Ratings — Claremont McKenna College, a small, prestigious California school, said Monday that for the past six years, it has submitted false SAT scores to publications like U.S. News & World Report that use the data in widely followed college rankings.
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Washington Monthly
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
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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Crooks and Liars, Virginian-Pilot, Feministe, The Daily What, Sister Toldjah and Hullabaloo
Wall Street Journal:
Jindal's Education Moon Shot — Louisiana's Governor pushes vouchers and tenure reform. — Newt Gingrich wants the U.S. to return to the moon, but as challenges go he has nothing on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's school reform plans. — Mr. Jindal wants to create America's largest …
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Betsy's Page and Hot Air
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
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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