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4:00 PM ET, January 6, 2012

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Rasmussen Reports:
South Carolina Primary: Romney 27%, Santorum 24%, Gingrich 18%  —  What a difference a caucus makes.  Rick Santorum who two months ago had one percent (1%) support among likely South Carolina Republican Primary voters now is running a close second there with 24% of the vote.
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KCCI-TV:
Could Typo Rewrite Caucus History?  —  Caucus Vote Counter Says Romney Mistakenly Given 20 Votes  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Caucus night was chaotic in many places, with hundreds of voters, candidates showing up and the throngs of media who followed.  The world's eyes were on Iowa.
Adam Sorensen / Swampland:
TIME/CNN/ORC Poll: Romney Storms Ahead in South Carolina  —  In another sign of the front-runner's growing strength.  Mitt Romney has taken the lead in South Carolina, according to a TIME/CNN/ORC poll released Friday.  —  The poll, which surveyed likely primary voters on Wednesday and Thursday …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Gingrich: Romney should drop out if he doesn't win New Hampshire primary  —  Newt Gingrich said if Mitt Romney doesn't win the New Hampshire primary, he should drop out of the race.  —  “Look, this is one of his best states other than Utah and Massachusetts.
Discussion: Ballot Box, CNN and The Politico
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Romney and Santorum soar in South Carolina  —  (CNN) - Mitt Romney's numbers in South Carolina are surging, and he now has a solid lead over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new survey of likely GOP primary voters in the Palmetto state.
Discussion: The Caucus and Business Insider
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Pro-Santorum SuperPAC Buys Ad Time in South Carolina  —  ABC News has learned that a SuperPAC which supports Rick Santorum, the Red, White and Blue Fund, is going up with TV ads in South Carolina.  This will be the first time the SuperPAC is on the air in the “First-in-the-South” state.
Discussion: GOP 12
Rasmussen Reports:
New Hampshire: Romney 42%, Paul 18%, Santorum 13%, Huntsman 12%
Wall Street Journal:
Romney Wins but Takes a Beating
Discussion: Eunomia and GOP 12
ABCNEWS:   Gingrich on Romney Debating the President: ‘Obama is Going to Laugh at Him’
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Newt: Obama will ‘laugh’ at Mitt
Discussion: CNN
David Brooks / New York Times:
A New Social Agenda  —  I'm to Rick Santorum's left on most social issues, like same-sex marriage and abortion.  I'm also put off by his Manichaean political rhetoric.  He seems to imagine America's problems can best be described as the result of a culture war between the God-fearing conservatives and the narcissistic liberals.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Booed Again For Saying Gays Aren't Entitled To Marriage Or Military Service
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Rick Santorum and the return of compassionate conservatism
Brad Cooper / Kansas City Star:
Legislator apologizes for ‘YoMama’ email about first lady  —  Kansas legislator acknowledges forwarding email note mocking first lady's name, hair style.  —  Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal on Thursday apologized for an email that made fun of first lady Michelle Obama's hair style and mockingly called her “Mrs. YoMama.”
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Mike O'Neal sorry for Michelle ‘YoMama’ email
Discussion: Indecision Forever
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
U.S. Adds 200,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate at 8.5%  —  The United States added a robust 200,000 new jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday, in a sign that the long-awaited economic recovery has finally built up a head of steam.  —  The nation's unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent in December …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
A good jobs report — and a good year
Tim Mullaney / USA Today:
Dec. unemployment rate lowest in nearly 3 years
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Marathon Pundit
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Path to Green Card for Illegal Immigrant Family Members of Americans  —  Obama administration officials announced on Friday that they will propose a fix to a notorious snag in immigration law that will spare hundreds of thousands of American citizens from prolonged separations from immigrant spouses and children.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Obama to make major green-card reform
David Frum / FrumForum:
All Good Things...  FrumForum launched itself almost exactly three years ago, on Inauguration Day 2009.  Over the subsequent interval, our hundreds of contributors have reached more than 5 million individual readers.  I like to think that together we have helped to move the national debate.
Discussion: driftglass
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
White House proposes 0.5 percent pay increase for federal workers  —  The White House will propose a 0.5 percent pay increase for civilian federal employees as part of its 2013 budget proposal, according to two senior administration officials familiar with the plans.
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Carol Felsenthal / Chicago magazine:   Jodi Kantor Goes Inside the Obamas' Marriage in New Book
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Short NBC gig for Chelsea?  —  Chelsea Clinton's much-trumpeted deal with NBC seems to be nearly done.  Her contract is for only 90 days, and while she'll provide the network with two more stories, sources say it is not certain she'll immediately sign again.
Reuters:
Special report: Romney's steel skeleton in the Bain closet  —  (Reuters) - It was funny at first.  —  The young men in business suits, gingerly picking their way among the millwrights, machinists and pipefitters at Kansas City's Worldwide Grinding Systems steel mill.
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama takes victory lap  —  Two days after defying Republicans and appointing Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama took a little time to gloat.  —  Making a victory lap of sorts at the independent agency, Obama cracked a joke …
Discussion: The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Jason Mattera / Human Events:
Rubio in letter to Obama: You are turning America into a ‘deadbeat nation’  —  In a scathing letter sent to Barack Obama this morning, Senator Marco Rubio said that under the President's first term in office, “more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation.”
Rick Perlstein / Crooks and Liars:
Santorum's ‘Freedom’ is Pretty Much Slavery  —  Rick Santorum got high marks for his near-victory speech in Iowa.  In the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne called it “by far the best speech Tuesday night.”  Santorum's address impressed me, too, but for a different reason: his astonishing endorsement …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Study Says Looks Matter as TV Covers Congress
ABCNEWS:
House Democrats Demand GOP ‘Come Back From Vacation’
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Democracy Now:
Occupy New Hampshire Protester Takes Romney to Task for Declaring “Corporations Are People”
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Quinn's Coffers Reach Goal for Mayoral Primary
Discussion: Capital New York and Gothamist
David Weigel / Slate:
Occupiers for Huntsman, Part II: “Of Course Corporations Are Not People”
Discussion: GOP 12 and Daily Kos
Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain
Discussion: Opinion L.A.
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Students Laugh When Obama Tells Them “You Inspire Me”
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Irene / Judicial Watch:
DOJ Steers Countrywide Settlement Cash To Leftist Groups With Dem Ties
Lila Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Walmart Blacklisted By Major Pension Fund Over Poor Labor Practices