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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Michigan GOP race tightens — The Republican race for President in Michigan has tightened considerably over the last week, with what was a 15 point lead for Rick Santorum down to 4. He leads with 37% to 33% for Mitt Romney, 15% for Ron Paul, and 10% for Newt Gingrich.
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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: Santorum Crushing GOP Hopefuls in Texas … Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has a commanding lead among Republican presidential candidates in Texas, according to a new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. — Santorum would get the votes of 45 percent of the respondents …
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Ballot Box, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, TheBlaze.com and Politico
Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Why Mitt Romney's Presidential Prospects May Not Be Salvageable — Business School Case Study: Company R has the financial resources, the professional staff, the marketing know-how, and the business expertise to dominate its competition. But despite the near-universal familiarity of its signature product …
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Guardian
Maggie Habermanand Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Worry over Mitt Romney sparks talk of Tampa — There are growing calls for an alternative to Mitt Romney as the Republican standard-bearer, with the names of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie again being seen as the most likely saviors.
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Juana Summers / Politico:
Rick Santorum defends attacks on Obama ‘theology’ — STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Rick Santorum continued to play defense Monday, working to explain a handful of controversial statements that appear to draw links between President Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler, and seem to question the president's Christianity.
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum denies Hitler-Obama comparison — (CNN) - Rick Santorum on Monday denied he was comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler while using a World War II analogy the previous day. — During a speech at a Georgia church on Sunday, Santorum paralleled the election to America's slow response …
Donald Trump / CNN:
TRENDING: Trump takes hatchet to Santorum — (CNN) - Donald Trump demonstrated Monday that he has no qualms about going after one of Mitt Romney's chief rivals, Rick Santorum. — “There's nothing - there's no gift, no Christmas gift, that could be given better than Rick Santorum to the Democrats …
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ABCNEWS:
Donald Trump Hitting The Michigan Airwaves For Mitt Romney
Donald Trump Hitting The Michigan Airwaves For Mitt Romney
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Romney adviser says Michigan not a ‘must-win’ for campaign
Romney adviser says Michigan not a ‘must-win’ for campaign
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Santorum draws World War II parallel in describing threat facing the nation
Santorum draws World War II parallel in describing threat facing the nation
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The New Republic
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Santorum challenges policy on prenatal testing
Santorum challenges policy on prenatal testing
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Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
Slouching toward nomination, Romney needs win in Michigan
Slouching toward nomination, Romney needs win in Michigan
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CNN, Politico and Prairie Weather
NY Daily News:
Jeremy Lin headline slur was ‘honest mistake,’ fired ESPN editor Anthony Federico claims — EXCLUSIVE: ‘This had nothing to do with me being cute or punny’ — Jeremy Lin looks on during Knicks' victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. — The ESPN editor fired Sunday for using …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Pain Without Gain — Last week the European Commission confirmed what everyone suspected: the economies it surveys are shrinking, not growing. It's not an official recession yet, but the only real question is how deep the downturn will be. — And this downturn is hitting nations that have never recovered from the last recession.
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Elisabeth Afseth of Investec:
Elisabeth Afseth of Investec:
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Iran Raid Seen as a Huge Task for Israeli Jets — WASHINGTON — Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its pilots would have to fly more than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran's air defenses, attack multiple underground sites simultaneously — and use at least 100 planes.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Pakistan Can't Seem to Figure Out Why Bin Laden Was Hiding There — The Pakistani commission appointed to investigate just how Osama bin Laden came to be living in Abbottabad, in a large house adjacent to Pakistan's military academy (a house built by an architect regularly employed …
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The Jawa Report
Olympia Meola / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Poll finds most Virginians oppose changes in abortion, gun laws — Virginia voters, by wide margins, want to retain the state's landmark one-handgun-a-month law and oppose mandating that a woman receive an ultrasound before having an abortion, according to a new poll.
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Little Green Footballs, The Maddow Blog and Outside the Beltway
CBS News:
Rising gas prices and the 2012 election … PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — On another front in campaign 2012 : Rising gasoline prices are getting the attention of both the White House and its Republican challengers. Gasoline is now the costliest it's ever been this time of year — an average $3.56 per gallon, up 40 cents in a year.
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New York Post:
H'wood snubs Muslim Stone — Sean Stone, son of controversial director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam in Iran last week and says he's already experiencing a Hollywood backlash. — The ceremony was held in Isfahan, where he is researching a documentary. He now goes by the name of Sean Christopher Ali Stone.
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Santorum: Liberals ‘are the anti-science ones’ — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum charged on Monday that President Barack Obama and Democrats were “anti-science” because they refused to exploit the Earth's natural resources to the limits of technology.
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Hullabaloo and The Agonist
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Notes on an Unfinished Letter of Apology (Or, Does Ed Morrissey Torture Cats?) … When the draft of the e-mail passed the 3,000-word mark, and was still clearly not half-finished, I gave it up. What had begun as a mea culpa had metamorphosed into a treatise explaining the entire history …
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Janet Whitman / New York Post:
Jobless disability claims soar to record $200B as of January — Standing too many months on the unemployment line is driving Americans crazy — literally — and it's costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. — With their unemployment-insurance checks running out …
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Power Line, Michelle Malkin, Fox News and The Lonely Conservative
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Plouffe, Obama Aide, Lends Firm Hand to Campaign — WASHINGTON — David Plouffe is not a hugger, crier or someone who gets all gaga every time he walks into his West Wing office, just a few feet from that of the president. He disdains doomsayers as “bed-wetters,” press hordes as “jackals” …
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Politico and The PJ Tatler