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Washington Post:
Super Tuesday exit polls: an early look — The early exits are in, and in three key states — Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia — Republican electorates are broadly shaping up to look a lot like those that voted four years ago, with some important differences. — Overall, conservatives …
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Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Loyal Opposition
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Daniel Strauss / Ballot Box:
Exit polls: Gas prices, economy are top Super Tuesday issues — Gas prices and the economy were the top issues on the minds of voters on Super Tuesday, according to exit polls. — Seven in 10 voters in the seven Super Tuesday states that hold primaries said gas prices was an important topic …
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CBS News, Associated Press, CNN, Politico, Scared Monkeys and Jammie Wearing Fools
NBC's Andrew Rafferty / msnbc.com:
Santorum camp asking conservatives to pressure Gingrich to drop out — STEUBENVILLE, OH — Rick Santorum's campaign is calling on conservatives to pressure Newt Gingrich to abandon his bid for the White House, a senior adviser told reporters tonight. — Senior campaign strategist John Brabender …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
News Analysis: No Super Tuesday Knockout Punch — Mitt Romney won the delegates, but not necessarily the argument. — His quest to win the Republican presidential nomination has always resembled a detailed, methodical business plan. Mr. Romney, who spent much of his life fixing troubled corporations …
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Washington Post, The Page and The Caucus
Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum campaign: If we go to the convention “so be it”
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Politico, GOP 12 and Don Surber
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Newt Gingrich: ‘I am the tortoise’ of the 2012 Republican primary
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The Last Tradition
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Super Tuesday primaries: Mitt Romney wins 4, Rick Santorum 3; dead heat in Ohio
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Hit & Run
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A Guide to Super Tuesday Possibilities
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Good luck tonight,’ Obama says to Romney on Super Tuesday
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The Huffington Post and Politico
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Super Tuesday ‘win’ could rest in Ohio, Tennessee
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Ballot Box, The Moderate Voice, msnbc.com, This Just In and TalkLeft
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Exit Polls: Electability vs. Relatability
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The Daily Dish and National Review
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Capital One Drops Ads From Rush Limbaugh — Capital One has recently aired advertisements on the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Today, ThinkProgress asked a representative of the company whether it is “taking steps to ensure that your ads will not run on Rush Limbaugh in the future.”
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Investors flee Carbonite after Limbaugh announcement — On Saturday, Carbonite CEO David Friend released a statement on his company's website declaring that Carbonite had decided to “withdraw” advertising from Rush Limbaugh's radio show in the wake of his controversial remarks involving …
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The Last Tradition, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and Daily Kos
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Obama: I Can't Be Expected to Comment on Both Rush Limbaugh's and My DNC Chairwoman's Remarks — At today's White House press conference, President Obama was not asked a single question about the public policy aspects of Obamacare's new mandate forcing employers, including most religious institutions …
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The PJ Tatler, LifeNews.com and Hot Air
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Announcing The Carbonite Accountability Project — On Saturday, March 3, 2012, Carbonite announced that it was dropping its advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show even after Limbaugh had apologized to Sandra Fluke for certain comments made regarding Ms. Fluke.
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The Frisky, TheCollegeConservative, The PJ Tatler and Wake up America
Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
Netflix Becomes 30th Advertiser To Drop Limbaugh
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The Week, And So it Goes in Shreveport and Daily Kos
Mj Lee / Politico:
29 companies yank ads from Rush
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Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! and Computerworld
Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
‘I Understand You Have a Panel,’ Gingrich Tells a Panel-Less AIPAC — Newt Gingrich apparently has been so busy campaigning all around Georgia that he hasn't had time to sleep, or even write a speech for the AIPAC crowd. — Moments before he was set to video-stream live …
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NO QUARTER, Mediaite, BuzzFeed, Wonkette, Politico, Business Insider and The Raw Story
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
Paul calls GOP positions on Iran ‘reckless’ — (CNN) - Ron Paul said Tuesday that his rivals have “blown way out of proportion” the Iranian nuclear threat and that their language is “reckless” and “dangerous.” — On the same day as his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination argued …
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Obama: Want a war? Say so
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The Week, ABCNEWS, Algemeiner.com and The Raw Story
Helene Cooper / The Caucus:
Obama Challenges Republicans on Iran
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New York Times, Algemeiner.com, American Prospect, Mother Jones, Firedoglake, Balloon Juice and Connecting.the.Dots
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Super Wednesday: GOP establishment lays down the law to the right
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ABCNEWS, Politico, Reuters, The Week, Guardian, The American Conservative, CNN and The Other McCain
Joshua Hersh / The Huffington Post:
Iran Crisis: Efraim Halevy, Ex-Mossad Director, Says Romney Op-Ed ‘Making The Situation Worse’ … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Foreign Affairs, Mitt Romney, Iran, Iran War Hype, Israel, Efraim Halevy, Iran Nuclear Weapons, President Barack Obama, Iran Strike, Nuclear-Bomb Program, World News
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Anne Penketh / Pundits Blog:
Obama's flashing red light to Netanyahu on Iran
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Politico and New York Times
Mitt Romney / Washington Post:
How I would check Iran's nuclear ambition
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
86-Year-Old Ohio Veteran Can't Vote After Government-Issued ID Is Rejected At Poll — Paul Carroll, an 86-year-old World War II veteran who has lived in the same Ohio town for four decades, was denied a chance to vote in the state's primary contests today after a poll worker denied his form …
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Plain Dealer and Election Law Blog
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Sarah Palin To Obama: If Rush Was Offensive, Why Are You Taking Money From Bill Maher — Calls on Obama to ask his Super PAC to return $1 million donation from Bill Maher. Maher used the C-word for Palin.
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Mediaite, nation.foxnews.com, No More Mister Nice Blog, ABCNEWS, Liberal Values, The PJ Tatler, The Last Tradition and Whiskey Fire
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Boehner warns House GOP he will take a detour on highway bill — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) warned House Republicans Tuesday that he will take up the Senate's bipartisan $109 billion highway bill if they keep refusing to pass his version. — Adopting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's …
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Bob Sullivan / msnbc.com:
Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords — If you think privacy settings on your Facebook and Twitter accounts guarantee future employers or schools can't see your private posts, guess again. — Employers and colleges find the treasure-trove of personal information …
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The American Conservative, Jezebel, Moneyland, The Raw Story and Mashable!
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Scrutiny of Political Nonprofits Sets Off Claim of Harassment — WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is caught in an election-year struggle between Democratic lawmakers pressing for a crackdown on nonprofit political groups and conservative organizations accusing the tax agency of conducting a politically charged witch hunt.
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Ohio Rep. Schmidt becomes first member ousted in 2012 primary — Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) became the first member of Congress to be defeated in a primary in 2012, losing her race on Tuesday to physician Brad Wenstrup. — With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Wenstrup took 49 percent of the vote to Schmidt's 43 percent.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
How We Can Help President Obama Today — This is going to be a more than occasional series on the blog from now until whenever the administration leaves office. So this is the first entry. We can help President Obama today by explaining as LOUDLY as we can that he shouldn't lead this country …
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Jonathan Bernstein / The New Republic:
Yes, Caucuses Are Unfair. No, We Shouldn't Mind.
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