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Ohio GOP Primary: Santorum 42%, Romney 24% — Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum continues to ride his polling momentum into Ohio where he leads Mitt Romney by nearly two-to-one in the first Rasmussen Reports survey of Republicans in the state. — The new statewide telephone survey …
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Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's … and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Gov. Rick Snyder / detroitnews.com:
Mitt Romney is the best choice — A little more than a year ago, Michigan voters put their trust in a businessman to serve as their governor. They were looking for someone who understands the private sector and has a plan for reversing the economic decline that had befallen our great state.
Mike Wilkinson / detroitnews.com:
Poll: Rick Santorum leads Mitt Romney in Michigan — Rick Santorum visits a school in North Dakota on Wednesday. Santorum, who has turned the Michigan race into a fight, will be in Detroit and Novi today. (Will Kincaid / Associated Press) — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum …
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Mitt Romney lose to Rick Santorum in Michigan? 'That won't happen,' Romney says — KENTWOOD - Jerome Bush, an 81-year-old lifelong Republican, shook GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's hand Wednesday, recalling doing the same with his father, George Romney, during his campaign for governor more than 40 years ago.
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Ballot Box, Daily Kos and The Page
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MLive Q&A with Mitt Romney: From the Tigers, to tuition, to the Great Lakes
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TheBlaze.com and Campaign 2012
Jeremy Lin / Associated Press:
Romney makes hometown appeal in new ad, blames Obama for Detroit's economic woes
Romney makes hometown appeal in new ad, blames Obama for Detroit's economic woes
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Lippmann's Ghost
Rory Sheehan / democrats.oversight.house.gov:
ISSA REJECTS MINORITY WITNESS FOR HEARING ON CONTRACEPTION — Cummings Asks Issa to Reconsider and Let Witness Testify on Behalf of Women Across the Country — Washington, DC (Feb. 15, 2012)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform …
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Religion Dispatches, ECHIDNE of the snakes, The Maddow Blog and Taylor Marsh
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Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying — This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration's …
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The Maddow Blog, No More Mister Nice Blog and Feministing
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All Male Contraception Panel Criticized — A Capitol Hill hearing that was supposed to be about religious freedom and a mandate that health insurers cover contraception in the United States began as an argument about whether Democrats could add a woman to the all-male panel.
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Politico, Little Green Footballs, Guardian and Daily Kos
Cheyenne Steel / oversight.house.gov:
Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement — Americans of all faiths have a right to practice their religion free from the fear of persecution or harassment from their government. Our nation's founders believed this and enshrined religious freedom into the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Supreme Court should take on New York City's rent control laws — James and Jeanne Harmon reside in and supposedly own a five-story brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a building that has been in their family since 1949. But they have, so to speak, houseguests who have overstayed their welcome by …
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Wendy Wang / Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
The Rise of Intermarriage — Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — This report analyzes the demographic and economic characteristics of newlyweds who marry spouses of a different race or ethnicity, and compares the traits of those who “marry out” with those who “marry in.”
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msnbc.com and National Review
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall
Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall
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Hit & Run, National Review and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Marco Rubio and Obama duel on diplomacy — Sen. Marco Rubio isn't waiting for a vice presidential offer to go after President Barack Obama: He's been locked in a quiet battle with the White House for months, blocking key diplomatic appointments in hopes of getting his say on foreign policy.
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Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
OVERNIGHT TECH: Cybersecurity bill headed straight to Senate floor
OVERNIGHT TECH: Cybersecurity bill headed straight to Senate floor
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Politico, RedState and Pirate's Cove
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Rep. Upton pushed for loan to now-bankrupt solar company — Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich), a leading GOP critic of the Obama administration's loans to Solyndra, pressed the Energy Department in 2009 to back a Michigan solar firm that filed for bankruptcy this week.
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ThinkProgress and Don Surber
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Contraception's Con Men — By a revolting combination of con men and fanatics, the current primary race has become a demonstration that the Republican party does not deserve serious consideration for public office. Take the controversy over contraceptives.
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Washington Monthly, Corey Robin and A plain blog about politics
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Who Wants to See Tina Korbe's Thighs? — The title of this post is not a hypothetical question, because last week the aforesaid Miss Korbe joined her Hot Air colleague Ed Morrissey for a video interview with Rick Santorum, which I didn't see until somebody brought it to my attention yesterday:
Mark Thoma / Economist's View:
“Romer Advised Obama To Push $1.8 Trillion Stimulus” — Via Brad DeLong, more details of how the size of the stimulus package was determined, and how the administration's mistaken pivot to deficit reduction came about: … If Obama goes go “big on entitlements,” it will be a mistake.
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Suburban Guerrilla
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Sarah Palin will ‘help’ brokered convention — Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that a brokered Republican presidential convention was a possibility and that if it happened she “would do whatever I could to help.” — “If one of the nominees, one of the GOPers …
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TBogg, Wonkette and Outside the Beltway
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Exclusive: Santorum releases four years of tax returns — Rick Santorum said they would come this week, and here are four years worth of his taxes, from years 2007 through 2010. — They can be found here, here, here and here. The returns are the most in number that have been released …
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ABCNEWS, Mediaite, msnbc.com, Campaign 2012, New York Times and Angry Bear
Ben Adler / CJR:
The Right-Wing Media's Discipline Machine — Talk radio and Fox News bully the GOP candidates into line—and, in the process, offer a narrow vision of conservatism — When Mitt Romney was asked at a New Hampshire town hall in June 2011 about climate change, he probably did not think he was taking …
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American Prospect and Hullabaloo
Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
How I'll Respond to China's Rising Power — The character of the Chinese government—one that marries aspects of the free market with suppression of freedom—shouldn't become the norm. — Should the 21st century be an American century? To answer, it is only necessary to contemplate the alternatives.
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ThinkProgress, The Hill, New York Times and Daniel W. Drezner
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: 'We've been slogging through prose' — President Obama appeared at two star-studded Los Angeles fundraisers on Wednesday night and, as he spoke to a crowd that included actor George Clooney, acknowledged that governing hasn't been easy. — Mentioning former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo's quip …
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The Colbert Report suspended temporarily — The late-night comedy program hosted by Stephen Colbert will suspend production for at least two days this week, POLITICO has confirmed. — The Colbert Report, the home of relentless parodying of super PACs and the campaign finance system …
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Mediaite, newsfeed.time.com and Third Beat, more at Mediagazer »
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A Graphic Question: Where Are the Jobs? — Tomorrow, February 17, 2012, will be exactly 3 years since President Obama signed his infamous stimulus package into law. It was a plan designed to create jobs by growing the size of government, and its record has not been good.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Enterprise Blog and Instapundit