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Santorum Catches Romney in GOP Race — Obama Leads Both in General Election Matchups — OVERVIEW — Rick Santorum's support among Tea Party Republicans and white evangelicals is surging, and he now has pulled into a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Santorum Surges to Tie Romney — Race takes another turn as Santorum gains 14 points since winning Feb. 7 GOP contests — PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are now statistically tied for the lead in Republican registered voters' preferences for the 2012 GOP nomination — 32% to 30%, respectively.
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The Caucus, The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Ballot Box, Associated Press, Weasel Zippers, CNN, ABCNEWS, Washington Post and The Maddow Blog
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Santorum moves ahead in Michigan — Rick Santorum's taken a large lead in Michigan's upcoming Republican primary. He's at 39% to 24% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Ron Paul, and 11% for Newt Gingrich. — Santorum's rise is attributable to two major factors: his own personal popularity …
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
GOP Gov. McDonnell warns Santorum not to demean military women
GOP Gov. McDonnell warns Santorum not to demean military women
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Politico, Boston Globe, GOP 12 and CNN
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Romney's Santorum problem
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
ARG poll shows Santorum up 6 over Romney in Michigan
ARG poll shows Santorum up 6 over Romney in Michigan
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Jay Bookman, The Caucus, The Week, FiveThirtyEight, iOwnTheWorld.com, RedState and Outside the Beltway
Lornet Turnbull / Seattle Times:
Gregoire signs gay marriage into law — With Gov. Chris Gregoire's signature on Monday, Washington joins six other states and the District of Columbia in allowing same-sex couples to marry. — OLYMPIA — Surrounded by applauding gay couples and with media from around the country looking on …
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The Maddow Blog, ACS Blog, Outside the Beltway and Taylor Marsh
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Geoff Mulvihill / Associated Press:
NJ Senate OKs gay marriage bill in milestone vote
NJ Senate OKs gay marriage bill in milestone vote
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Washington Governor Signs Same-Sex Marriage Bill
BREAKING: Washington Governor Signs Same-Sex Marriage Bill
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The Political Carnival and Booman Tribune
Edith Honan / Reuters:
New Jersey Senate approves gay marriage; veto looms
New Jersey Senate approves gay marriage; veto looms
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Campaign 2012
Rachel La Corte / Associated Press:
Washington gov signs gay marriage bill into law
Washington gov signs gay marriage bill into law
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Obama set to okay Egypt, PA aid despite tension — Palestinians to see only slight roll back despite unity deal with Hamas; Egypt aid to remain at 2012 level. — By REUTERS/Larry Downing — WASHINGTON - Despite recent tensions between the US and Egypt and a new Palestinian Authority government set …
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Ricochet Conversations Feed, Washington Free Beacon and Israel Matzav
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Obama proposes $800 million in aid for “Arab Spring” — (Reuters) - The White House announced plans on Monday to help “Arab Spring” countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt. — In his annual budget message to Congress …
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LifeNews.com, Rush Limbaugh, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Mail Online, Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Obama's ‘rosy’ budget scenario doubles down on class warfare — Here's pretty much all you need to know about Obamanomics: In 2011, the Obama White House suggested raising the top dividend tax rate to 20 percent from 15 percent. Keeping the dividend rate at a relatively low level …
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Bloomberg, Campaign 2012, Doug Ross, National Review, Sister Toldjah, Firedoglake and American Spectator
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
House GOP leaders drop demand that payroll tax cut be offset — House Republicans said Monday that they would offer a measure to extend the current payroll tax cut for the rest of the year, dropping a previous demand that the tax break be offset. — The move marks a sharp turnaround for GOP leaders …
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House GOP scrambles payroll tax cut calculus
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Tucker Carlson takes on the media — The top editors at the Daily Caller have come out with the first in a series of articles about the liberal media watchdog Media Matters For America, and in doing so they have suggested that MSNBC and reporters from the Washington Post, POLITICO …
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Inside Media Matters: David Brock's enemies list — An internal Media Matters For America memo obtained by The Daily Caller reveals that the left-wing media watchdog group employs an “opposition research team” to target its political enemies. Included in the list of targets are right-leaning websites …
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Power Line, Big Journalism, Politico, Michelle Malkin, Washington Monthly, Ed Driscoll, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, RedState and Atlas Shrugs
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Political Punch — “Dogs Against Romney”? Democrats Say Unleash the Hound! — Tomorrow outside the Westminster dog show at Madison Square Garden at noon the group “Dogs Against Romney” will protest “to ensure pet lovers are aware that Mitt Romney is mean to dogs,” according to the group's press release.
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Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and The Raw Story
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Norquist: Romney Will Do As Told — Is Mitt Romney so weak he won't be able to stand up to Congress? — Grover Norquist, head of the Americans for Tax Reform advocacy group, speaks at a session entitled “Scrap the Code: Towards Pro-Growth Tax Reform” at the conservative Americans for Prosperity …
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Republican Women Senators Breaking Ranks With Party, Come Out In Favor Of Obama Contraception Rule — While GOP senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has pledged to fight the Obama's administration's modified regulation requiring health insurers and busnisses to offer contraception …
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Obama's Broken Deficit Promise — “This is big,” wrote White House director of new media Macon Phillips in a February 23, 2009 blog post, “the President today promised that by the end of his first term, he will cut in half the massive federal deficit we've inherited. And we'll do it in a new way: honestly and candidly.”
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker: Obama budget is a ‘nervous breakdown on paper’
Dem lawmaker: Obama budget is a ‘nervous breakdown on paper’
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans See Broken Promises and Gimmicks in Obama Budget
Republicans See Broken Promises and Gimmicks in Obama Budget
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Center for American Progress, ABCNEWS, Politico, ThinkProgress, PERRspectives, The Maddow Blog, Reuters, RedState and Hot Air
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Justice Breyer robbed at West Indies vacation home — WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week by a machete-wielding intruder at his vacation home in the West Indies, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Monday. — The 73-year-old Breyer, wife Joanna and guests were confronted …
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
‘Former Homosexual’ Calls for Dan Savage's Arrest — DL Foster, an anti-gay activist and professed “former homosexual,” called for the arrest of author Dan Savage for his role in founding the It Gets Better Project, which has consistently been in the crosshairs of Religious Right activists …
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Gay Christian Movement Watch, Crooks and Liars and Towleroad News #gay
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Four Cabinet members willing to help Democratic super PACs — Fundraising activities are limited, but star power brings in the bucks — 14 minutes, 55 seconds ago Updated: 13 minutes, 38 seconds ago — At least four Cabinet members appear ready and willing to answer President Barack Obama's call …
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Ballot Box, Weasel Zippers and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Verizon, AT&T to Sell 4G iPad — Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. will sell a version of the coming iPad that runs on their newest fourth-generation wireless networks, according to people familiar with the matter, as the battle to cash in on big investments in mobile broadband heats up.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Whitney Houston album price hike sparks controversy — Sony Music under fire after cost of greatest hits set on iTunes rises by more than 60% after singer's death — Sony Music has come under fire after it increased the price of a Whitney Houston album on Apple's iTunes Store hours after the singer was found dead.
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