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9:20 AM ET, February 6, 2012

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CNN:
Romney tops 50% in final Nevada tally  —  (CNN) - Mitt Romney won Saturday's Nevada caucuses with his highest portion of a state's vote yet, just over 50%, according to certified results released Monday by the Nevada Republican Party.  —  Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who also won …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Nevada caucuses 2012: 5 takeaways
Discussion: Gothamist and The Atlantic Online
Washington Post:
Obama holds edge over Romney in general election matchup, poll finds  —  Boosted by improved public confidence in his economic stewardship, President Obama for the first time holds a clear edge over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a hypothetical general-election matchup, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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ABCNEWS:
‘World News’ Political Insights: Romney Rises, but No End in Sight for GOP Race
Baird Helgeson / Minneapolis Star Tribune:   GOP hopefuls sprint to Minnesota
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Biographer: Mitt grew up in “series of bubbles”
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Religious Caucus Causes Protest in Las Vegas  —  LAS VEGAS — A special Saturday night Republican caucus here intended to accommodate Orthodox Jews who could not vote before sundown became the scene of controversy and confrontation after caucusgoers were told that to be admitted they had to sign …
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David McGrath Schwartz / Las Vegas Sun:
Economic woes, anti-Obama sentiment fail to draw large turnout
Andrew Stuttaford / National Review:
Rocks, Hard Places  —  Greece has reached the latest of many last ditches this weekend.  —  The Financial Times reports: … The overspending, corruption and dysfunction of the Greek state are hard to deny.  But so, almost certainly, too is the truth of what Samaras had to say.
Discussion: Right Wing News and Reuters
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Financial Times:
Greece takes step closer to default
Discussion: Tim Duy's Fed Watch
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:   Greeks Inch Closer to Default
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Voters willing to see US attack Iran over nuclear weapons  —  Nearly half of likely voters think the United States should be willing to use military force to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to this week's The Hill Poll.  —  Forty-nine percent said military force …
Discussion: Hot Air
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The Columbus Dispatch:
Mitt Romney  —  Experience and wide appeal make him the best GOP presidential nominee
Discussion: CNN and Ballot Box
Tim Mak / Politico:
Super Bowl ads: Pete Hoekstra's hits a nerve  —  The campaign of former Rep. Peter Hoekstra for U.S. Senate explained a racially charged Super Bowl advertisement they developed - complete with an Asian actress speaking in broken English - as a reflection of China's increasingly competitive education system.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Things Are Not O.K.  —  In a better world — specifically, a world with a better policy elite — a good jobs report would be cause for unalloyed celebration.  In the world we actually inhabit, however, every silver lining comes with a cloud.  Friday's report was, in fact, much better than expected …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The Citizens United catastrophe  —  We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, and it doesn't work.  Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence politics behind shell corporations.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Huffington Post
Michael Medved / Wall Street Journal:
Presidential Fathers and Sons  —  For the seventh consecutive election, the next president will either be a privileged son or a man with no relationship with his biological father.  —  Voters this year look set to continue an odd pattern that's prevailed in presidential politics for a quarter century.
Discussion: Power Line and Betsy's Page
New York Times:
Deal Is Closer for a U.S. Plan on Mortgage Relief  —  With a deadline looming on Monday for state officials to sign onto a landmark multibillion-dollar settlement to address foreclosure abuses, the Obama administration is close to winning support from a crucial state that would significantly expand the breadth of the deal.
Discussion: naked capitalism and The Page
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: I'm getting ‘better as time goes on’ at being president  —  President Obama said that he gets “better as time goes on” at his job and that he believes the grassroots movement that propelled him to victory in 2008 will help him win a second term during an interview that aired Monday on NBC's “Today Show.”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Obama, Ryan in budget rematch  —  The bell for Round Two of the fight between President Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is about to ring.  —  Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, was bloodied in the first round after his proposal to revamp Medicare became a campaign poster for Democrats.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Syria's most senior defector: Assad's army is close to collapse  —  Bashar al-Assad's army is close to a collapse that could plunge the Middle East into a “nuclear reaction”, its most senior defector has told The Sunday Telegraph.  —  In his first full-length newspaper interview …
Discussion: Guardian and Syria Comment
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egypt Will Try 19 Americans on Criminal Charges  —  CAIRO — Egyptian authorities on Sunday referred 19 Americans and two dozen others to criminal trials as part of a politically charged investigation into the foreign financing of nonprofit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between the United States and Egypt.
Discussion: Israel Matzav, The Page and Truthdig
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:   Report: Egypt to put Transportation Secretary LaHood's son on trial
 
 
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