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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 …

Mj Lee / Politico:

Super Tuesday Alaska: Sarah Palin voted for Newt Gingrich — Sarah Palin revealed late on Super Tuesday that she voted for Newt Gingrich in the Alaska caucuses. — After declining to reveal to a CNN reporter which 2012 candidate she voted for, Palin said in a later interview with a Fox News host …

Discussion: CNN, American Prospect, msnbc.com, KTUU-TV, The Other McCain, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, No More Mister Nice Blog, Reuters, ABCNEWS, TBogg, The Page, Pundits Blog and The American Conservative

Wall Street Journal:
Republican Split Decision

Discussion: Townhall.com, Reuters, GOP 12, National Review, RedState, New York Post and Campaign 2012

Toby Harnden / Mail Online:
Slouching towards victory? Mitt Romney wins six on Super Tuesday but gets labelled a loser

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Sabato's Crystal Ball, The Daily Beast, Politico, Salon, Wake up America, BuzzFeed, The Moderate Voice and The Lonely Conservative

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gingrich spokesman: Alabama and Mississippi are must-wins

Discussion: CNN

Alexander Burns / Politico:
Newt aide: No, Mitt should drop out

Discussion: CNN and Ballot Box

Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama campaign says long GOP primary hurts president's fundraising

Discussion: Politico

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Mitt's Glass Half Empty

Discussion: TalkLeft, FiveThirtyEight, Reuters and Washington Wire

The Daily Beast:
No Clear Path To Victory For Romney

Discussion: Politico

David Weigel / Slate:
Romney and Galactus: Five Lessons from Super Tuesday

Discussion: Mother Jones

Newt Gingrich / CNN:
TRENDING: Santorum ally calls for Gingrich exit

Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Romney Appears the Ohio Winner; Santorum Strong

Discussion: Washington Post, The Caucus, Wall Street Journal, Brilliant at Breakfast, Feministing, The Huffington Post, Politico, ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay and CNN

Michael Kinsley / Bloomberg:

The insincere push to crush Rush — The people who want to drive Rush Limbaugh off the air aren't assuaged or persuaded by his apology over the weekend. They say he wasn't sincere: He only apologized for calling a Georgetown University law student a “slut” and a “prostitute” because of pressure from advertisers.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Moderate Voice

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 …

Discussion: Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, Campaign 2012, americanthinker.com, Pat Dollard, The Last Tradition, Moonbattery, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Gateway Pundit

Dan Riehl / BREITBART.COM:

EXCLUSIVE: DEMS INCITE DEATH THREATS AGAINST LIMBAUGH — Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is being targeted by multiple death threats after President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party ignored his apology for controversial remarks and continued to single him out for rebuke.

Discussion: The Hill, Instapundit, The Spectacle Blog, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, INSTAPUTZ, Campaign 2012, NewsBusters.org, Jammie Wearing Fools and Weekly Standard

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

Bill Maher Defends Rush Limbaugh — Last night on Twitter, Bill Maher defended Rush Limbaugh and attacked liberals for not accepting Limbaugh's apology after he spent three days relentlessly attacking law student Sandra Fluke. — Notably, Limbaugh only apologized for “two words,” after attacking Fluke dozens of times.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Examiner, Daily Kos and The Daily Dish

Michelle Malkin:
The war on conservative women

Discussion: NY Daily News, Jezebel, The Right Scoop, American Power, ABCNEWS and Hit & Run

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

At Harvard, Obama Dived Into Diversity Fight — In this video, not previously available online but licensed by BuzzFeed from a Boston television station, the future president speaks at a 1991 campus protest organized to demand tenure for minority and female law professors. — Source: youtube.com

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo, The BRAD BLOG, Mediaite, The PJ Tatler, Rumproast, Washington Post and New York Times

Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:

THE VETTING: BEN SMITH RELEASES SELECTIVELY EDITED OBAMA RACE VIDEO — Earlier today, Buzzfeed's Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.”

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Balloon Juice and Weasel Zippers

Paul Kane / Washington Post:

Rep. Dennis Kucinich suffers primary defeat in Ohio — Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential candidate and icon of the antiwar left, suffered a bruising primary defeat Tuesday as a new Republican-drawn congressional map threatened to end the career of one of the most colorful figures in Congress.

Discussion: American Prospect, The American Conservative, Slate, UrbanGrounds, Metro, Don Surber, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Questions and Observations, Business Insider, Ballot Box, The Lonely Conservative and Daily Kos

Alex Isenstadt / Reuters:
‘Joe the Plumber’ wins Ohio Republican congressional primary bid

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, The Week and Washington Wire

Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Ohio Rep. Schmidt becomes first member ousted in 2012 primary

Discussion: Politico and The Mahablog

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

Maine Miscellany —It looks like Maine voters will reverse their 2009 decision and legalize gay marriage in the state this fall. 54% think that gay marriage should be legal to only 41% who think it should be illegal. And when we asked about the issue using the exact language voters …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Taegan Goddard's …

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Liberal darling Chellie Pingree won't run for Snowe's seat

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Hullabaloo, Firedoglake, The Maddow Blog and Hotline On Call

Associated Press:

Obama loses Dem primary in 15 Oklahoma counties — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama collected the most votes in the Oklahoma Democratic primary, but lost in 15 counties. — With 98 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday, Obama won 57 percent of the vote.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, Wizbang, Campaign 2012 and Clayton Cramer's Blog

Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Anti-abortion activist may keep Obama from unanimous re-nomination

Discussion: Hot Air

Brian Mylar / KSAT-TV:

Racial incident mars high school game — School district, students apologize — SAN ANTONIO - — A local school district is apologizing after an apparent incident of racism at a boys high school basketball game this past weekend. — When the final whistle blew Saturday …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com, Moonbattery and Questions and Observations

TSA Out of Our Pants!:

$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners — This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe …

Discussion: Addicting Info, The Daily Caller, Mashable, The Raw Story and US Politics

Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:

TPM2012 — Jean Schmidt Loses House Seat In Major GOP Primary Upset — In a major upset, Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH), a fiery conservative voice in the House of Representatives, has lost the Republican primary for her redrawn House seat. — With 99% of precincts reports …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Firedoglake, Wonkette, Mock, Paper, Scissors and News Desk

Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Upset in Ohio: Rep. Jean Schmidt (R) loses primary to Brad Wenstrup

Discussion: US Politics and nation.foxnews.com

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Apple next-generation iPad liveblog! — March 7, 2012. Hard to say if it's a day that'll live long in terms of historical significance, but you can bet it'll be an important milestone in the history of Apple's iPad family. The next iPad (iPad 3? iPad HD? iPad 2S?) is due to be unveiled …

Discussion: TPM Idea Lab and Vodkapundit

BuzzFeed:

Why Rick Won't Quit — The cost is high. But it's not about logic, or even winning, any more. — There comes a point in a presidential campaign — and in the lore, it's always 3 a.m. when this happens — where the candidate finds himself staring at the ceiling, contemplating financial ruin.

Discussion: GOP 12

Brian Tashman / rightwingwatch.org:

Pat Robertson Weighs in on Sandra Fluke's ‘Fornication’ — Televangelist Pat Robertson on the 700 Club today attacked Sandra Fluke's testimony at a Democratic hearing, after she was barred from speaking at a GOP-led committee, in support of making religiously-based institutions …

Discussion: The Raw Story

Darren A. Nichols / detroitnews.com:

Audit: Part of $11M grant for Detroit job seekers only aided 2 — Detroit — Part of an $11 million grant intended to provide business attire to 400 low-income job-seekers instead helped only two people, an audit of the city's Department of Human Services has found.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The PJ Tatler and Clayton Cramer's Blog

Barak Ravid / Haaretz:

Netanyahu asked Panetta to approve sale of bunker-busting bombs, U.S. official says — Top administration source says Obama instructed Defense Secretary to work with Defense Minister Barak, to give all due consideration to the request for purchasing GBU-28 bombs, advanced refueling aircraft.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and LewRockwell.com Blog

Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:

RFK Jr.: Inhofe is ‘call girl’ for Big Oil — Leave it to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to one-up Rush Limbaugh in the name-calling department. — “Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers,” …

Discussion: Hot Air, Wonkette, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Washington Free Beacon