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10:00 AM ET, March 2, 2012

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Quinnipiac University:
Ohio GOP Race Going Down To The Wire, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Santorum At 35% To Romney's 31%  —  The Republican presidential face-off in Ohio is too close to call as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has 35 percent of likely Republican primary voters to former Massachusetts …
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Loses His Cool During Interview With Cincinnati Radio Station Conversation with host Scott Sloan becomes a shouting match about birth control, before his cell phone drops the call.  —  Share on Facebook More on BuzzFeed Politics  —  YOUR REACTION?  —  MORE GREAT STUFF
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Santorum: We Have a ‘Guerrilla Campaign’  —  ATLANTA - Rick Santorum defined his campaign, which he says has none of the frills or trappings of Mitt Romney's, as a “guerrilla campaign” Thursday.  He raised $9 million in February alone, but the candidate believes as the race approaches Super Tuesday, he will be outspent by his rival.
Discussion: GOP 12, Washington Post and The Page
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney holds small lead in Washington  —  Momentum has swung strongly in Mitt Romney's direction among Washington Republicans over the last two weeks.  He now leads in the state with 37% to 32% for Rick Santorum, 16% for Ron Paul, and 13% for Newt Gingrich.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama doing well in Wisconsin and beyond
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Nicholas Kamm / Rolling Stone:
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche  —  So Andrew Breitbart is dead.  Here's what I have to say to that, and I'm sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good!  F**k him.  I couldn't be happier that he's dead.  —  I say this in the nicest possible way.  I actually kind of liked Andrew Breitbart.
David Frum / The Daily Beast:
Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012  —  Conservative activist Andrew …
Toby Harnden / Mail Online:
Andrew Breitbart was ‘in talks with CNN’ over new show with Anthony Weiner
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Georgetown Student Sandra Fluke Responds To Being Called ‘Slut,’ ‘Prostitute’ By Limbaugh  —  On Thursday, MSNBC's Ed Schultz conducted an exclusive interview with Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, the woman whom Rush Limbaugh mocked on his radio show earlier that day.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Dems demand that GOP condemn Limbaugh
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff'  —  Dismissing a strategy of “containment” as unworkable, the president tells me it's “unacceptable” for the Islamic Republic of Iran to have a nuclear weapon.  —  At the White House on Monday …
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio suggests Obama's birth certificate is a forgery  —  Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Thursday that his six-month investigation had found that “probable cause exists indicating that forgery and fraud may have been committed” in the release of President Obama's long-form birth certificate.
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WND:
SHERIFF JOE: ‘PROBABLE CAUSE’ OBAMA CERTIFICATE A FRAUD  —  Team wants investigation elevated to criminal-forgery probe - person of interest ID'd  —  NOTE: In case you missed the news conference of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's “Cold Case Posse,” WND plans to have the entire event available …
Michael Brendan Dougherty / Business Insider:
The Obama Campaign Just Told Some Massive Lies In The Fight Over Contraception  —  A few weeks ago, Obama's Department of Health and Human Services mandated that all employers-even religious hospitals and schools—had to include health coverage for birth control, sterilization …
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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Breitbart Friend Reveals To Hannity: Obama Harvard Tapes Will Be Out ‘In A Week Or Two’  —  On his program Thursday, Fox News' Sean Hannity spoke with Steve Bannon (producer of The Undefeated, among various other films) about a series of tapes Andrew Breitbart claimed to have about Barack Obama.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Chris Christie: Marriage Equality Is Not About ‘Gay Rights’  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) told a student at a Fort Lee high school this morning that “gay marriage” is not about extending rights to gay and lesbian Americans and insisted that it would “change the way we've governed our society”:
Discussion: New Jersey Online
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ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: In '02 Romney Touted D.C. Connections, Federal Funds  —  In a long-forgotten tape from the 2002 Massachusetts governor's race obtained by ABC News, Mitt Romney is seen touting his Washington connections and his ability to get millions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Four Fiscal Phonies  —  Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits.  Or at least that's what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama's deficits are leading us toward a “Greece-style collapse.”  —  So why is Mr. Romney offering a budget proposal that would lead to much larger debt …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Why Can't the Obama Administration Make Its Case Without Disseminating Hate?  —  Have we ever had an administration like Barack Obama's?  An administration that tries to benefit from pitting Americans against one another?  An administration that uses its billion-dollar slush fund …
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
The economic case against Obamanomics in 13 charts  —  “The White House's Economic Case for Reelection in 13 Charts” is how The Atlantic magazine's Derek Thompson characterizes a new blog post by the U.S. Treasury Department.  The post presents a baker's dozen of charts created by Team Geithner …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Doug Ross and New York Times
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The White House's Economic Case for Reelection in 13 Charts
Discussion: BuzzFeed
 
 
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A Warning on the Accuracy of Primary Polls
Dan Merica / CNN:
Muslim campaign looks to repair Sharia's reputation
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs
Roanoke College:
RC Poll: Va. Republican Primary poll shows Romney leads Paul but Republicans still skeptical of Presidential hopefuls
Discussion: CNN
N. C. Aizenman / Washington Post:
Birth control exemption bill, the ‘Blunt amendment,’ killed in Senate
BBC:
Iran conservatives contest poll for parliament
Discussion: The Agonist and Biased BBC
Technology Review:
How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
Discussion: ANIMAL and The Raw Story
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The White House:
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Bill Simmons / Grantland:
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Andrew RIP  —  I walked out of the studio at Fox only to have …
Discussion: Campaign 2012
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Fox & Friends’ Expanding by an Hour (Exclusive)
New York Times:
Syrian Rebels Say They Are Withdrawing From Enclave
Politico:
Biden: We ‘screwed up’ contraception mandate
Discussion: Mediaite
Mj Lee / Politico:
Gonzalez calls for judge's resignation
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and ThinkProgress
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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