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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Concedes: He Can't Win The Nomination Outright — Winning by losing? Strategy memo is less a “path to victory” as it is a path to a contested convention. — Santorum talks with supporters during a stop at Sweet Peppers Deli, Sunday, March 11, 2012, in Tupelo, Miss. — (AP / Eric Gay)
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CNN:
Romney to forgo Medicare — Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) - Mitt Romney is celebrating his 65th birthday. But unlike many seniors who reach that age, the GOP presidential candidate will forgo the Medicare program, according to a source with the Romney campaign.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Mitt Romney wishes Mobile 'good mornin" — MOBILE, Ala. — Mitt Romney spent the last week trying to convince Southern voters that he was one of them ahead of primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. — But at an event at a restaurant the day before Tuesday's primaries, he all but admitted it was an act.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Michael Steele: “I Wanted a Brokered Convention” — Before he was booted as GOP chair, Steele changed the party's primary contest rules—and now Romney and the Republican establishment are paying for his chaos theory experiment. — Is the never-ending and ever-bitter 2012 Republican presidential race …
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Will Not Enroll In Medicare
Mitt Romney Will Not Enroll In Medicare
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Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — The Many Misleading Claims In Mitt's Monday Medicare Memo
TPMDC — The Many Misleading Claims In Mitt's Monday Medicare Memo
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Says America Should Apologize for Afghanistan Shooting
Rick Santorum Says America Should Apologize for Afghanistan Shooting
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Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney Not Enrolling in Medicare on 65th Birthday
Washington Post:
Gas prices sink Obama's ratings on economy, bring parity to race for White House — Disapproval of President Obama's handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record number of Americans now give the president “strongly” negative reviews …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Obama Still Muslim, Report Southern Republicans — It has been a while since the question of President Obama's religion — his true religion, maybe the religion he or his “church” don't want you to know about — has been on the national agenda. And the upcoming Alabama and Mississippi primaries …
New York Times:
At Lunch, Bloomberg and Obama Discuss Future
At Lunch, Bloomberg and Obama Discuss Future
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Other notes from Alabama and Mississippi
Other notes from Alabama and Mississippi
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh — ThinkProgress has obtained an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks listing 96 national companies that have “specifically asked” their advertisments not be played during the Rush Limbaugh Show. Premiere is the distributor of Limbaugh's program.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh losing more advertisers? — Think Progress gets its hands on an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks that lists nearly 100 national companies that have asked that their advertisements not be played on the Rush Limbaugh show — companies that have not been publicly named until now.
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: Republicans clogging judicial confirmation process to embarrass Obama — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) charged Senate Republicans on Monday of gumming up the Senate's judicial confirmation process in order to embarrass President Obama, and said he plans to file cloture …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Specter says Obama ditched him after he helped pass health law
Specter says Obama ditched him after he helped pass health law
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Stearns On Obama Birth's Certificate: ‘The Question Is, Is It Legitimate?’ — New video of a February town hall shows Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) pandering to birthers and raising questions about the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate. — When Stearns met with constituents …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Longtime GOP lawmaker questions legitimacy of Obama birth certificate — Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), already under fire for allegations he bribed his primary opponent to drop out of the race, questioned the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate at a town-hall meeting.
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BuzzFeed:
Santorum Campaign Responds To Dutch Euthanasia Outrage — Rick Santorum has drawn fire for controversial statements about assisted suicide in the Netherlands. In an impromptu interview with Dutch television station RTL4, Santorum press secretary Alice Stewart offered no explanation …
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Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
In his heart, Rick Santorum knows that Dutch people are forcibly euthanized
In his heart, Rick Santorum knows that Dutch people are forcibly euthanized
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Washington Monthly and Washington Post
Associated Press:
Justice Dept opposes Texas voter ID law — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's civil rights division on Monday objected to a new photo ID requirement for voters in Texas because many Hispanic voters lack state-issued identification. — Texas follows South Carolina as the second state …
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Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
Coffee Is an Essential Benefit Too — Here are some other health-care mandates that government should impose on employers. — Dear President Obama, — Can you believe the nerve of employers? Many of them still seem to think that they should be allowed to determine the benefits they offer.
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Independent.ie:
Nicky Larkin: Israel is a refuge, but a refuge under siege — Through making a film about the Israeli-Arab conflict, artist Nicky Larkin found his allegiances swaying — I used to hate Israel. I used to think the Left was always right. Not any more. Now I loathe Palestinian terrorists.
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Bradley Manning's treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules — UN special rapporteur on torture's findings likely to reignite criticism of US government's treatment of WikiLeaks suspect — The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel …
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ABCNEWS:
Hoopster-in-Chief Obama Offers NCAA Bracket Challenge — “Think you got game?” That's the question President Obama is posing to sports fans in a new, online interactive contest aimed at expanding his re-election campaign's contact list and collecting some grassroots cash.
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Alana Horowitz / The Huffington Post:
Ken Griffin, Billionaire Romney Backer, Says Super Rich Have ‘An Insufficient Influence’ On Politics … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Video, Ken Griffen Romney, Ken Griffin, Ken Griffin Campaign Contributions, Ken Griffin Political Donations, Mitt Romney 2012, Romney, Romney 2012, Politics News
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Mj Lee / Politico:
Mitt Romney: I'm weak? What about Newt Gingrich? — Mitt Romney on Monday laughed at Newt Gingrich's suggestion that he is a weak frontrunner who is failing to win over conservatives, saying of the former House speaker, “If I'm a weak frontrunner, what does that make Newt Gingrich?
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Center-right leaders, Bush alums form religious conscience group — A collection of prominent center-right leaders, including multiple top Bush administration officials, have founded a new advocacy group to advocate for measures exempting religious organizations from federal rules governing contraception coverage, POLITICO has learned.
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