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8:00 AM ET, February 28, 2012

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Michigan Forecast Update: Romney's Lead Looks More Tenuous  —  Since we ran the Michigan numbers early Monday morning, three new polls are out that make the state look more like a true toss-up and less like one that favors Mr. Romney.  —  Two of the surveys, from Mitchell Research …
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CNN:
Democratic mischief in Michigan  —  Washington (CNN) - It's no secret that most Democratic strategists consider Mitt Romney the GOP contender who poses the biggest threat to President Obama.  It's also no secret that Michigan, the state where Romney grew up, is a must win for him.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
Updated at 5:10 EST with audio of the call.  —  Updated at 6:12pm EST with confirmation that the call did indeed come from the Santorum campaign  —  LANSING, MI — Rick Santorum's campaign is locked in a tight battle with Mitt Romney ahead of Tuesday's Michigan primary.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Momentum back toward Santorum in MI?  —  PPP's final poll in Michigan finds Rick Santorum holding on to the smallest of leads with 38% to 37% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Ron Paul, and 9% for Newt Gingrich.  —  It's always good to be cautious with one night poll numbers, but momentum seems to be swinging in Santorum's direction.
Discussion: GOP 12
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
Gingrich zeroes in on Santorum in the South  —  Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) - Newt Gingrich zeroed in on Rick Santorum as a “big-labor Republican” Monday, and said the GOP presidential race is “going to redefine itself again” one week before crucial contests on Super Tuesday.
Discussion: Politico, NPR and CBS News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Could crossover voters play spoiler in Michigan?
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Caucus and The Raw Story
New York Times:
Michigan a Testing Ground for Doubt on Romney
Byron Tau / Politico:
ACLU, CAIR call for probe into W.H. funding for Muslim surveillance  —  The American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations are separately calling for investigations into White House funding of a domestic spying program launched by the New York Police Department against Muslim-Americans.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
White House gives blessing to partial Keystone XL construction
Discussion: Daily Kos and Power Line
Associated Press:   White House helps pay for NYPD Muslim surveillance
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Santorum: Gas Prices Caused The 2008 Recession  —  Dubiously claims gas prices prevented people from paying their mortgages.  —  LANSING, Michigan—Rick Santorum sharpened his attack on President Barack Obama over rising gas prices, saying high energy prices caused the 2008 recession.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Newt: We can't fix Afghanistan  —  Via POLITICO's Emily Schultheis, Newt Gingrich, assessing the problems in the Middle East, had this to say about Afghanistan:
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Gingrich to Afghanistan: ‘Figure Out How to Live Your Own Miserable Life’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Supreme Court Refuses To Humor Anti-Gay Group's Self-Victimization Meme  —  The Supreme Court has decided not to hear the National Organization for Marriage's challenge to Maine's campaign finance laws: … Though this may be perceived as a non-event, it represents a huge defeat …
Discussion: Holy Bullies …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Free speech issue bypassed
Agence France Presse:
Gunmen attack police station, bank in nothern Nigeria  —  Gunmen hurled explosives and fired at a police station and a nearby bank in a northern Nigeria town Monday in another of daily attacks blamed on Islamist sect Boko Haram, witnesses said.  —  The attack in Jama'are …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
John Ingold / Denver Post:
Initiative to legalize marijuana makes ballot in Colorado  —  Colorado voters in November will decide whether limited possession of marijuana for any purpose should be legalized.  —  If passed, the initiative would make Colorado the only state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
Alabama Bill Could Require Women To Undergo Invasive Ultrasound To Convince Them ‘To Keep The Child’  —  When a woman in Alabama seeks an abortion procedure, she already has to sign that her doctor has performed an ultrasound and that she either viewed the ultrasound image or rejected seeing it.
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Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
Idaho To Consider Ultrasound Bill
Discussion: Spokesman.com and Spokesman.com
Mary Sell / TimesDaily.com:
Ultrasounds before abortions  —  Chairman of state Senate …
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
Trashing Tricare  —  The Obama administration's proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers' benefits untouched.  The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials.
Joann Loviglio / Associated Press:
Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain dies  —  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jan Berenstain, who with her husband, Stan, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died.  She was 88.  —  Berenstain, a longtime resident …
Jana Winter / Fox News:
Media Matters boss paid former partner $850G ‘blackmail’ settlement  —  Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization's donors and the IRS - a deal that Brock later characterized as a blackmail payment …
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Issa Concedes His All-Male Anti-Contraception Hearing Was Not ‘My Greatest Success’  —  Eight days after getting roundly-chastised for holding an all-male anti-contraception, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) admitted on Friday that the episode did not go as well as he expected.
Phillip Matier / San Francisco Chronicle:
Sex-tape stunner in Nadia Lockyer case  —  There's a shocking twist in the saga of Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer and the incident at a Newark hotel that landed her in the hospital and a male acquaintance under police scrutiny.  —  We're told that a sex tape of Nadia Lockyer …
Discussion: Clayton Cramer's Blog
Guardian:
Occupy protesters accuse St Paul's of betrayal  —  City of London police say St Paul's gave them permission to remove activists from cathedral steps during eviction  —  St Paul's Cathedral has been accused of “betraying” Occupy London activists after giving the City of London police permission …
Discussion: Harry's Place and Boing Boing
NBC / msnbc.com:
Official: 1 dead, 4 hurt in Ohio school shooting  —  Ohio officials hold a news conference on the shooting at Chardon High School that left one person dead and four injured.  —  Updated 12:04 p.m. ET: One student was killed and four were injured in a shooting Monday morning at an Ohio high school, officials said.
Discussion: This Just In, FOX8.com, Metro and Rumproast
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Associated Press:   Authorities: 1 student killed, 4 wounded in Ohio school shooting; suspect taken into custody
 
 
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Andrew Frye / Bloomberg:
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CNN:
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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
Whitewashing Gay History
Drew Harwell / St. Petersburg Times:
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Inquiry Leader Says Murdoch Papers Paid Off British Officials
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Paul Revoir / Daily Mail:
Christianity gets less sensitive treatment than other religions admits BBC chief
Discussion: Don Surber and National Review
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Dem Rep to constituents on HHS mandate: “Basically, we're not looking to the Constitution”
Discussion: CatholicVote.org and The PJ Tatler
Felix Salmon:
Why journalists need to link
Discussion: Mother Jones and Brad DeLong
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
The Broken Regulatory State
Discussion: Eschaton
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
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