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5:30 PM ET, January 10, 2012

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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Majority of Conservatives See Romney as “Acceptable”  —  Only Romney now seen as acceptable by majority of Republicans  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney is the now the only candidate that a majority of conservative and moderate/liberal Republicans nationwide see as an “acceptable” GOP nominee for president.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Colbert in South Carolina  —  Stephen Colbert wanted to sponsor the South Carolina Republican primary.  He wanted his name on the ballot and he wanted a referendum about whether corporations are people or only people are people.  He was rebuffed in his efforts but our team at PPP decided …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Romney's GOP critics undermining his general election argument  —  Conservatives are furious with GOP candidates like Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry for attacking Mitt Romney's Bain tenure as capitalism run amok.  Gingrich has claimed that Bain “looted” other companies, and Perry today slammed enterprises …
Reuters:
Romney well ahead of Republicans, trails Obama: Poll  —  (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has sailed farther ahead of rival Republican candidates nationally but still trails President Barack Obama in the White House race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday.
Discussion: US Politics and Prairie Weather
Ann Gerhart / Washington Post:
New Hampshire polls open in Dixville Notch — with nine votes  —  DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — The voters of this tiny hamlet, all nine of them, have spoken.  Very briefly.  —  The polls opened here at midnight and closed less than a minute later, and the tally was final by 12:05 a.m. On the Republican side …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Paul defends Romney ‘fire’ comment, history at Bain
ABCNEWS:
Santorum Says Romney's ‘I Like Being Able to Fire People’ Moment ‘Not a Good Message’ to Voters
Discussion: The Hill
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Gary Bauer: It's not a ‘stop Romney meeting’
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
weaskamerica.com:
Mitt-Out a Doubt?  —  According to Conventional Wisdom …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Taegan Goddard's …
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama pledges to stand by EPA  —  President Obama reassured employees at the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday that he will stand by their work amid growing attacks from Republicans and a decision by the White House last year to scuttle the agency's smog regulations.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Cecilia Muñoz to head domestic policy office
Discussion: National Review
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama picks immigration reform advocate to lead domestic policy
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and 24Ahead
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
A Slate resident feminist hears Gov. Christie talking about oral sex when he's obviously not.  —  What a joke!  Christie — responding to hecklers who used the words “going down” in connection with jobs — said: “You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain't going to be jobs, sweetheart.”
Web Edition:
Doomsday Clock moves to five minutes to midnight  —  It is five minutes to midnight.  Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face.  In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed.  For that reason, the Bulletin …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney and 100,000 jobs: an untenable figure  —  “In the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.”  —  Last week, when we first looked …
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
How Many Cheers for Bain?  —  There's a line of thinking …
Paul Bedard / US News:
Poll: Americans, 2-1, Fear Obama's Reelection  —  When it comes to how Americans view President Obama going into the new year, there appears to be very little spirit of Auld Lang Syne.  Instead, according to the new Washington Whispers poll, many voters aren't forgetting what they dislike about Obama and want him out office.
Paul Krugman:
Businessmen and Economics  —  A brief thought on something I'll try to expand on later.  Leaving aside all the questions about what Mitt Romney did or didn't do at Bain — and about his self-aggrandizing double standard — there's an even broader question: why does anyone believe that success …
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: 10th Circuit Court Of Appeals Declares Oklahoma's Sharia Ban Unconstitutional  —  The 10th Circuit Court Of Appeals struck down Oklahoma's ban on Sharia law today, declaring that the Sooner State's move violated the United States Constitution.  —  In November 2010 …
citypaper.net:
Gov. Corbett declares war on food stamps  —  Republican Gov. Tom Corbett has announced a major assault on the food stamp program that feeds 1.8 million Pennsylvanians, including 439,245 in Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare announced that on May 1 …
Aaron Carroll / The Incidental Economist:
Lots of people can't fire their insurance companies  —  Governor Romney is getting a lot of heat for a line that appears to have been taken out of context.  I'd like to talk about it in context.  I think that's much more illuminating: … Gov. Romney is not saying that he enjoys telling people that they no longer have a job.
ABCNEWS:
Ron Paul Defends Romney, Lashes Out at His Critics  —  In an exclusive interview outside a Manchester polling place, Ron Paul lashed out at fellow Republicans for making unfair and ignorant attacks on Mitt Romney's business record.  —  “I think they're wrong.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and The Page
Wall Street Journal:
The Stephanopoulos Standard  —  Republicans can turn media bias to their advantage.  —  A funny thing happened on the way to the New Hampshire primary: ABC moderator George Stephanopoulos embarrassed himself on national television with questions plainly intended to embarrass the Republican candidates.
Rosemary Winters / Salt Lake Tribune:
Salt Lake City named America's ‘gayest’ burg  —  “While those unfamiliar with the Beehive State are likely to conjure images of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, far-less-oppressive-than-it-used-to- be Salt Lake City has earned its queer cred,” writes Matthew Breen for The Advocate …
Discussion: msnbc.com
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
GOP: Corporate donation ban unconstitutional  —  The century-old ban on corporate donations to federal political campaigns should be junked as unconstitutional, the Republican National Committee argued in a legal brief filed Tuesday that could lead to new attacks on the GOP as beholden to corporate money.
Lisa Rogers / Gadsden Times:
Man in custody after shootout with police in Alabama City  —  A man thought to be an Islamic extremist is believed to have shot the windows out of at least two businesses in Alabama City early Sunday to lure police officers to the area and engage them in a shootout.
Jennifer Martinez / The Politico:
SOPA becoming election liability for backers  —  To the ranks of same-sex marriage, tax cuts and illegal immigration, add this to the list of polarizing political issues of Election 2012: the Stop Online Piracy Act.  —  The hot-button anti-piracy legislation that sparked a revolt online …
Discussion: ABCNEWS
David Brooks / New York Times:
Where Are the Liberals?  —  Why aren't there more liberals in America?  —  It's not because liberalism lacks cultural power.  Many polls suggest that a majority of college professors and national journalists vote Democratic.  The movie, TV, music and publishing industries are dominated by liberals.
Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake:
NC Elections Official Resigns Rather than Facilitate the Marriage Discrimination Amendment  —  This thunderous letter of support for equality was sent to PHB and BlueNC by Sherre Toler, who, until last week was the director of elections for Harnett County in my state.
Discussion: BlueNC and ThinkProgress
Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:
Companies Face Fines for Not Using Unavailable Biofuel  —  WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.
 
 
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