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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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Donald Trump Hitting The Michigan Airwaves For Mitt Romney — ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: — With just over a week to go before Michigan voters head to the polls, Mitt Romney is enlisting the help of one of his highest-wattage surrogates: Donald Trump.
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Slouching toward GOP nomination, Romney needs win in Michigan — Michigan was supposed to be an easy victory for Mitt Romney, but just over a week away from primary day it is threatening to turn his campaign into turmoil. — Multiple polls last week showed Rick Santorum edging out Romney …
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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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Ron Paul: 'I Think It's A Losing Position' For Republicans To Focus On Social Issues — Ron Paul appeared on CNN's State of the Union today, and in addition to boosting his own candidacy, Candy Crowley asked him about latest frontrunner Rick Santorum and whether or not a candidate like him …
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Santorum attacks Obama on prenatal screening
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Santorum: Obama agenda a ‘phony theology,’ not ‘based on the Bible’
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Senior Obama Advisor: Rick Santorum's ‘Phony Theology’ Comment ‘Well Over the Line’
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Paul Ryan: Obama contraception ruling reveals ‘paternalistic, arrogant’ attitude
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Santorum explains ‘phony theology’ comment, says Obama is ‘a Christian’
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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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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 …

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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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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Domestic production eyed as gas prices head toward record-breaking height — President Obama's re-elect team defended White House energy policy on Sunday as gas prices shoot toward the $4 mark and beyond, a level that could devastate voters' pocketbooks as well as Obama's chances for a second term.
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Obama's Gas Pains
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I just got an email from the Heartland Institute about the “HeartlandGate” documents — I just got this email. I have no way of telling if it is authentic: — By e-mail to: greg@gregladen.com — By Federal Express to: — Mr. Greg T. Laden — 44788 265th Lane — Aitkin, MN 56431-4807
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David Koch intends to cure cancer in his lifetime and remake American politics — PALM BEACH — David Koch has become the face of conservative America's obsession with weakening organized labor, and for that, he believes, there have been death threats - 100 credible threats last year alone, he says.
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