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11:40 AM ET, January 16, 2012

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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Huntsman Says He's Quitting G.O.P. Race  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina primary.
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Axelrod: Huntsman Dropped Because He Wouldn't Sell His Soul  —  Obama's top strategist tells BuzzFeed in an email: “He was simply unwillingly to make the Faustian bargains with the Right that Romney has so willingly made.”  —  Jon Huntsman's withdrawal offers an opportunity for Democrats …
Politics:
Huntsman, Trapped In 2009, Never Had A Chance
Discussion: msnbc.com
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:   Huntsman Withdrawal Should Aid Romney
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Sources: Huntsman to drop out of 2012 race tomorrow, endorse Romney
Washington Examiner:   Huntsman: A boutique candidacy that didn't sell
Fox News:
Huntsman to withdraw from race for Republican presidential nomination
Associated Press:
Campaign officials: Huntsman to quit US race
msnbc.com:
Huntsman to drop out of presidential race, endorse Romney
Discussion: Hot Air, Firedoglake and The Hill
Washington Post:
Jon Huntsman to quit presidential race, endorse Mitt Romney
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Colbert Super PAC Goes Negative On Romney In First South Carolina Ad
Fox News:
Fox News Poll raw data: Romney hits record high, but still tied with Obama  —  While far more Republican primary voters view Rick Santorum as the true conservative, Mitt Romney has become the clear leader in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a just-released Fox News poll.
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NewsMax.com:
SC Poll: Romney Lead Grows, Gingrich Second  —  More ways to share...  Mixx  —  Stumbled  —  LinkedIn  —  Vine  —  Buzzflash  —  Newstrust  —  Technocrati  —  Forward Article  —  An exclusive InsiderAdvantage poll released Sunday night shows GOP front-runner Mitt Romney gaining …
Wallacegw / CNN:
DeMint: I will not endorse  —  (CNN) - One of the most sought-after South Carolina politicians said Monday he would not endorse a candidate ahead of the Palmetto State's primary.  —  Sen. Jim DeMint, who has offered praise to all of the candidates in the field, said in a statement …
Mj Lee / Reuters:
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Talk race at GOP debate  —  The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he wants to hear the candidates at the Republican presidential debate tonight - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - discuss racial issues, which the civil rights activist says the GOP hopefuls have avoided throughout the campaign.
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Romney nabs Florida endorsement
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Perry: Obama administration over-reacting to Marine controversy
Discussion: CBS News, US Politics and Hullabaloo
The Atlantic Online:
The Wreck of the Costa Concordia  —  On the night of Friday, January 13, the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, with more than 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members on board, struck a reef, keeled over, and partially sank off Isola del Giglio, Italy.  Six people are now confirmed dead …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Daily Mail:
Forget women and children first. Burly crew men led the race for the lifeboats
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Guardian
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Beast:
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics  —  The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he's a wimp.  Andrew Sullivan on how the president may just end up outsmarting them all.  —  You hear it everywhere.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
CNN amplifies Romney's bogus jobs claims  —  Yesterday the Romney campaign distributed a memo to reporters that attacked Obama's record on jobs as a “failure.”  To support this conclusion, the memo cited, among other things, the “net” job loss that has occurred on Obama's watch.
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Jobs take center stage in Keystone fight  —  When U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue proclaimed that the Keystone XL pipeline would create 250,000 jobs, he touched a nerve in the environmental community.  —  “That's just not true,” Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
We Must Be Really, Really Stupid!  —  As you may have heard by now, Newsweek's forthcoming issue headlines, “Why are Obama's critics so dumb?”  —  Well, sure.  We who who are unhappy that unemployment has increased on Obama's watch, that over-regulation has stymied economic growth …
Annie Karni / New York Post:
Cuomo's ex Kennedy stands to make $40M in secret anti-oil deal  —  Professional do-gooder Kerry Kennedy — Gov. Cuomo's ex-wife and the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy — has called the oil-drilled rain forests of Ecuador “the biggest corporate environmental disaster on the face of the Earth, in the history of the world.”
 
 
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