memeorandum: Exit Polls: Electability vs. Relatability (Gary Langer/ABCNEWS)

7:50 PM ET, March 6, 2012

Top Items:

Alexander Burns / Politico:

Obama: Want a war? Say so — President Obama fired back at his Republican challengers who have accused him of being soft on Iran, saying at a White House press conference that the standoff over the Iranian nuclear program is “not a game.” — Suggesting that the criticism being lobbed …

Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Hot Air and LifeNews.com

Mitt Romney / Washington Post:

How I would check Iran's nuclear ambition — Beginning Nov. 4, 1979 , dozens of U.S. diplomats were held hostage by Iranian Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days while America's feckless president, Jimmy Carter, fretted in the White House. Running for the presidency against Carter the next year …

Anne Penketh / Pundits Blog:

Obama's flashing red light to Netanyahu on Iran — Judging from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC last night, you would think that he received a green light from President Obama to attack Iran unilaterally.

Discussion: Politico and New York Times

Algemeiner.com:
Israel's Channel 2: U.S. Officials Believe Netanyahu Has Already Decided to Strike Iran

Discussion: Power Line, Weekly Standard, Pat Dollard, Wake up America, The Daily Dish, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav

Helene Cooper / The Caucus:
Obama Challenges Republicans on Iran

Discussion: American Prospect, New York Times, Mother Jones, Firedoglake, Connecting.the.Dots and Balloon Juice

Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Unveils Housing Initiative at Super Tuesday News Conference

Discussion: Politico

New York Times:
World Powers Agree to Resume Nuclear Talks With Iran

Discussion: Firedoglake and Algemeiner.com

Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama blasts GOP for ‘casual’ talk on Iran

Discussion: Algemeiner.com

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.”

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Washington Monthly, Portland Press-Herald, Little Green Footballs, Addicting Info, The Frisky, Philly.com and Mediaite

Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:

Netflix Becomes 30th Advertiser To Drop Limbaugh — Moments ago, Netflix emailed a statement to the tech website Boing Boing indicating that the company will ensure that its ads never appear on Rush Limbaugh's radio show again: … According to a ThinkProgress count, Netflix is now the 30th company …

Discussion: The Daily What, Daily Kos, The Raw Story and The Last Tradition

Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:

Six More Advertisers Ditch Rush — The number of advertisers fleeing Rush Limbaugh continues to climb. — In an email release today, GEICO said, “In 2004 when Rush Limbaugh's program also carried remarks that were inappropriate, we ceased all advertising on his show. We don't advertise there to this day.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Crooks and Liars, News Corpse and The Raw Story

Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Axelrod: Romney gave ‘cowardly answer’ on Limbaugh controversy

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Mediaite, Politico, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon and RedState

Mj Lee / Politico:
25 companies yank ads from Rush

Discussion: Computerworld

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Announcing The Carbonite Accountability Project

Discussion: The Frisky, The Daily Caller, TheCollegeConservative, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite and Wake up America

CNN:
Stations, advertisers drop Limbaugh

Discussion: Liberal Values, Crooks and Liars, Politico and The Hill

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

‘Good luck tonight,’ Obama says to Romney on Super Tuesday — President Obama offered his likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney a caustic “good luck” for Super Tuesday. — Asked at a news conference if he'd like to respond to Romney's comments calling Obama the “most feckless president since Carter …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Politico

Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum campaign: If we go to the convention “so be it”

Discussion: Politico and GOP 12

Daniel Strauss / Ballot Box:
Exit polls: Gas prices, economy are top Super Tuesday issues

Discussion: CBS News, Associated Press and Jammie Wearing Fools

Rick Santorum / CNN:
Paul calls GOP positions on Iran ‘reckless’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Evan Osnos / News Desk: The Chinese View of Super Tuesday

Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Super Wednesday: GOP establishment lays down the law to the right

Discussion: Politico, Guardian, The American Conservative, The Other McCain and CNN

Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Super Tuesday ‘win’ could rest in Ohio, Tennessee

Discussion: The Reaction and This Just In

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

A Guide to Super Tuesday Possibilities — With only 10 states voting on Super Tuesday, it would be easy to dismiss it as a little wimpy compared to past years. — But nearly 20 percent of the delegates to the Republican convention will be chosen on Tuesday night — and the outcome …

Discussion: Guardian, The Hill, Daily Kos, Sky Dancing, Hot Air, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Shakesville, Runnin' Scared, Washington Monthly, Hit & Run, The Week, Patterico's Pontifications, News Desk, The Caucus, Prairie Weather and Wake up America

Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Exit Polls: Electability vs. Relatability

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Josh Putnam / Frontloading HQ:
Santorum Can't Get to 1144 — ...and neither can Gingrich.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Right Wing Nut House, A plain blog about politics, The Daily Dish, Outside the Beltway, weaskamerica.com and Patterico's Pontifications

msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Super Tuesday

Discussion: Washington Post, ABCNEWS, Washington Monthly, News Desk and The Daily Dish

Jana Winter / Fox News:

EXCLUSIVE: Infamous international hacking group LulzSec brought down by own leader — Hector Xavier Monsegur is “Sabu,” the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two who allegedly commanded the loosely organized international hacker team LulzSec. — Hector Xavier Monsegur is “Sabu,” …

Discussion: Computerworld, The Jawa Report, New York Times, Firedoglake, The Verge, TechCrunch, Mashable!, The Raw Story, TPM Idea Lab, Tucson Citizen, Pat Dollard, Colorlines and BuzzFeed

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 …

Discussion: NO QUARTER, Mediaite, BuzzFeed, Wonkette, Business Insider and The Raw Story

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.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The PJ Tatler

Jonathan Bernstein / The New Republic:

Yes, Caucuses Are Unfair. No, We Shouldn't Mind. — Regardless of whether Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum comes out ahead in Ohio later today, Super Tuesday already promises to make at least one growing segment of America's political class gleeful: caucus skeptics.

Discussion: A plain blog about politics

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 …

Discussion: The Raw Story, The American Conservative, Jezebel, Moneyland and Mashable!

Annie Lowrey / Economix:

The Economic Impact of the Pill — The recent controversy over contraception and health insurance has focused on who should pay for the pill. But there is a wealth of economic evidence about the value of the pill - to taxpayers, as my colleague Motoko Rich writes, as well as to women in general.

Discussion: American Prospect, ThinkProgress and Ezra Klein

rt.com:

Leaked: Bin Laden not buried at sea, body moved on CIA plane to US — Osama bin Laden (Reuters / Stringer) … The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks.

Discussion: Althouse, The Gateway Pundit, Biased BBC and Daniel W. Drezner

MoJo Articles:

Santorum: Single Moms Are “Breeding More Criminals” — EXCLUSIVE: The GOP candidate claimed in 1994 that single mothers were destroying the “fabric of the country.” His solution? “Kicking them in the butt.” — During his first US Senate campaign, Rick Santorum warned voters …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Huffington Post, Jezebel and Daily Kos

Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:

OBAMA ALLY WON'T RELEASE ALINSKY TAPE — Sources inform Breitbart.com today that Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play. — And she won't release it.