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Here's Romney's Plan To Take Out Santorum — A brutal, two-front attack from the campaign and the SuperPAC. “The expectation is that Santorum, just given his personality, is going to whine like crazy,” said a Romney advisor — Santorum at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week.
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Obama holds edge over GOP hopefuls — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — President Obama holds a significant lead over each of his potential Republican opponents in the general election …
Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich's Main Backer Plays Two Angles — Casino Mogul Adelson Weighs New Funding to Boost Former Speaker and to Help Romney Keep Santorum at Bay — Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, by far the biggest financial backer of Newt Gingrich's presidential bid, is preparing to open his wallet again.
Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Rick Santorum Wants to Fight ‘The Dangers Of Contraception’ — Candidates often say things when polling in the single digits that come back to haunt them when they start leading the polls. Last October, Rick Santorum gave an interview with an Evangelical blog called Caffeinated Thoughts …
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Hit & Run, Taylor Marsh, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, The Reaction, Betsy's Page, The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, RADAMISTO, GOP 12 and Political Insider
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Poll: Most back mandating contraception coverage
Poll: Most back mandating contraception coverage
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Washington Monthly, New York Times, Outside the Beltway, Campaign 2012, The Daily Dish, Hullabaloo, Pew Research Center …, Daily Kos, Gallup and The Page
New York Times:
Economy Lifts Obama in New York Times/CBS News Poll
Economy Lifts Obama in New York Times/CBS News Poll
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Gender and income gaps in GOP nomination battle
CNN Poll: Gender and income gaps in GOP nomination battle
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Politico, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Shakesville, Reuters, Detroit Free Press, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, The Caucus, Washington Wire, CBS News and Washington Post
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Romney Surrogate Attacks Santorum for Voting the Same Way He Did
Romney Surrogate Attacks Santorum for Voting the Same Way He Did
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American Prospect, Campaign 2012, Campaign Stops, American Spectator and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney faces major test in Michigan primary, once thought an easy win
Mitt Romney faces major test in Michigan primary, once thought an easy win
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Patterico's Pontifications and The Atlantic Online
Sara Burrows / Carolina Journal Online:
Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets” — State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead — RAEFORD — A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Nanny state report: NC school officials confiscate preschooler's homemade lunch
Nanny state report: NC school officials confiscate preschooler's homemade lunch
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americanthinker.com and The Gateway Pundit
Meredith Dake / Breitbart.tv:
Dershowitz: I Won't Vote For Obama If Associated With ‘Stalinist Bigots’ Media Matters — Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz told BreitbartTV Editor Larry O'Connor on the Governor Paterson Show on WOR that the Media Matters organization is full of “radical Stalinists” and says the White House …
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Big Government, Scared Monkeys and Big Journalism
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Will Rahn / The Daily Caller:
Media Matters tax-exempt status may face new scrutiny from Congress — Congressional Republicans are now interested in examining the Media Matters For America's tax-exempt status, The Daily Caller has learned. Doing so would cause the GOP to wade into the complex world of tax laws that govern …
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US Politics, Riehl World View and American Power
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
TheDC top ten: Interesting nuggets from Media Matters' 2010 tax records
TheDC top ten: Interesting nuggets from Media Matters' 2010 tax records
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Hot Air and Big Journalism, more at Mediagazer »
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Alan Dershowitz: Media Matters could become Rev. Wright of 2012 for Obama
Alan Dershowitz: Media Matters could become Rev. Wright of 2012 for Obama
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Birth Control Amendment ‘Dangerous,’ Obama Spokesman Says … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Obama, Video, Women's Issues, Womens Rights, Birth Control, Obama Women, Politics News, Roy Blunt, Birth Control Rule, Blunt Amendment, Blunt Contraception, Obama Contraception, Obama Contraception Rule …
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Maggie Fox / NationalJournal.com:
Reid to Allow Vote on Rescinding Contraception Rule
Reid to Allow Vote on Rescinding Contraception Rule
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Campaign 2012 and Hot Air
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Reid will allow vote on repeal of administration's birth control mandate
Reid will allow vote on repeal of administration's birth control mandate
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LifeNews.com, The Mahablog and ThinkProgress
Brendan DeMelle / DeSmogBlog:
Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine — Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart of the climate denial machine - its current plans, many of its funders, and details that confirm …
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Richard Littlemore / DeSmogBlog:
Heartland Insider Exposes Institute's Budget and Strategy
Heartland Insider Exposes Institute's Budget and Strategy
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ThinkProgress
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
White House issues veto threat for House transportation bill — The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a wide-ranging transportation package from House Republicans. — The administration raised concerns about a provision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, and argued …
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Politico and ThinkProgress
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Megan Ruyle / The Hill:
Facing objections from left and right, Boehner splits up transportation bill
Facing objections from left and right, Boehner splits up transportation bill
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Politico and Connecting.the.Dots
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Tentative Deal Reached to Preserve Cut in Payroll Tax — WASHINGTON — Members of a House-Senate committee charged with writing a measure to extend a payroll tax reduction and provide added unemployment benefits reached a tentative agreement Tuesday evening, with Republicans and Democrats claiming …
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Mediaite, The Maddow Blog, Campaign 2012, The Caucus and Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
Congressional negotiators reach tentative deal on payroll tax, unemployment benefits
Congressional negotiators reach tentative deal on payroll tax, unemployment benefits
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Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, Right Wing News, The Hill, US Politics and CNN
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell staying at arm's length
McConnell staying at arm's length
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ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
Health Costs, Gov't Regulations Curb Small Business Hiring — Nearly half of small-business owners name these issues — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. small-business owners who aren't hiring — 85% of those surveyed — are most likely to say the reasons they are not doing so include …
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Reuters, americanthinker.com and The Lonely Conservative
Investor's Business Daily:
Why Do Democrats Want to Protect Voter Fraud? — Suffrage: A new study finds that nearly 2 million dead people remain on voter registration rolls. So tell us again why Democrats oppose voter ID laws that would help prevent these errant registrations from being exploited?
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
FCC moves to kill LightSquared over GPS interference concerns — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to reject LightSquared's planned wireless network on Tuesday after the president's top adviser on telecom issues said there is “no practical way” to prevent the network from disrupting GPS devices.
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Hot Air, more at Techmeme »
msnbc.com:
Chavez allies attack new opponent Capriles as Jewish, gay — Venezuelan presidential hopeful Henrique Capriles, seen at a rally in La Guaira Jan. 27, has been attacked over his sexuality, Jewish ancestry and his selection as opposition candidate. — Allies of President Hugo Chavez …
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Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Pelosi Supports 2012 Democratic Party Platform Including Marriage Equality — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the 2012 Democratic Party platform including, for the first time, language in full support of marriage equality, her spokesman told Metro Weekly on Tuesday evening, Feb. 14.
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ThinkProgress, Freedom to Marry Blog and Towleroad News #gay
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
NYT reporter James Risen asks court to protect sources — Prosecutors pursuing a criminal case against former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling for allegedly leaking top-secret information about the program to Risen are appealing U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema's rulings that sharply limited Risen's testimony.
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Stephen Pollard / Telegraph:
For once, Richard Dawkins is lost for words — Atheists' arrogance is their Achilles' heel, as a cringemaking radio performance has proved. — Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, has made an exceptional contribution to public life — Which of us hasn't groaned when the Rev Giles Fraser …
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Guardian and Vox Popoli