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9:15 AM ET, January 25, 2012

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Washington Post:
In State of the Union, Obama expected to warn that middle class threatened by economic unfairness  —  President Obama will warn the nation Tuesday evening that the decades-old promise of a secure and rising middle class is threatened by economic unfairness as he delivers an election-year State …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Gov. Daniels: Obama is ‘pro-poverty’  —  Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) castigated President Obama's policies as “pro-poverty” and extreme in his response to the State of the Union address.  —  The Indiana governor, who considered a run for the White House before deciding last year against a campaign …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama's State of the Union speech: Confrontation wrapped in Kumbaya  —  At first listen, President Obama's State of the Union address had all the hallmarks of the sort of bipartisan, let's-do-the-right-thing-for- America tone that characterized his 2008 presidential campaign.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove, Gawker and HousingWire
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Speech Makes Pitch for Economic Fairness
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
White House SOTU talking points
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
State Of The Union Address Obsolete
Discussion: Washington Post and The Daily Dish
The White House:
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address  —  Washington, D.C.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:  —  Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq.
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Politics:
Read Obama's State Of The Union  —  Feisty, and full of veiled shots at Mitt Romney.  “I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place.”  —  The speech begins and ends …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   Spreading The Message Of Democracy? Not Exactly
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:   President Obama's State of the Union Address
Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
Andrea Mitchell: “Top Romney Advisor” Said “Party Elites” Will Find Alternative If Mitt Loses Florida … Dude!?  —  ANDREA MITCHELL: “I talked to a top Romney adviser tonight who said, 'Look, if Mitt Romney can not win here in Florida then we're going to have to try to reinvent …
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The Politico:
Newt Gingrich plays the Charlie Crist card  —  LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — Once the Republican presidential campaign came to Florida, it was only a matter of time until someone played the Charlie Crist card.  —  In an attempt to tarnish Mitt Romney's conservative credentials …
Discussion: Saint Petersblog and NewsMax.com
Jim Miklaszewski / msnbc.com:
American hostage in Somalia rescued by US Navy SEALs in overnight raid  —  WASHINGTON — In a daring nighttime raid Tuesday, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued two hostages, including one American, who were being held by kidnappers in Somalia, U.S. officials tell NBC News.
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Jeffery Gettleman / New York Times:
U.S. Military Frees 2 Foreign Hostages From Somali Pirates
Discussion: Global Spin
The Official Google Blog:
Updating our privacy policies and terms of service  —  In just over a month we will make some changes to our privacy policies and Google Terms of Service.  This stuff matters, so we wanted to explain what's changing, why and what these changes mean for users.  —  First, our privacy policies.
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can't opt out
Washington Examiner:
What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case?  —  The Romney campaign has been hitting Newt Gingrich hard over the 1990s ethics case that resulted in the former Speaker being reprimanded and paying a $300,000 penalty.  Before the Iowa caucuses, Romney and his supporting super PAC …
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Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich: Latinos, Blacks Don't Understand ‘Key To Future Wealth,’ But Asians Do
Discussion: THEROOT.COM and ThinkProgress
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
State Department slams GOP bill to force Keystone approval  —  The State Department is bashing House GOP legislation to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.  —  The legislation, which Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) is pushing, “imposes narrow time constraints and creates automatic mandates …
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Seung Min Kim / The Politico:   Joint panel at crossroads on tax holiday, Keystone
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
CHART: What Romney would pay under his own tax plan  —  Now that Mitt Romney has released his tax returns for 2010, we can have a stab at answering another key question.  What would Romney himself pay in taxes if his tax policies become law?  —  In 2010, Romney enjoyed an income of $21.7 million.
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Andrew Kaczynski / Politics:
Photo Exclusive: When George Romney Met Saul Alinsky  —  In the wake of the devastating Detroit riots of the summer of 1967, Michigan Gov. George Romney — a liberal Republican — met the radical organizer Saul Alinsky to discuss the grievances of the urban black poor.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Healthcare swing vote Kennedy attends Obama speech  —  Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy was one of four Supreme Court justices to attend Tuesday night's State of the Union address.  —  Kennedy, a possible swing vote when the court considers Obama's healthcare law, sat along side …
Discussion: The Politico
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Herman Cain: 'Mr. President, some of us aren't stupid'  —  Herman Cain delivered a critical response to President Obama's State of the Union address on behalf of the Tea Party.  —  “With all due respect Mr. President, some of us aren't stupid,” Cain, the one-time Republican presidential candidate …
Discussion: The Politico
ABCNEWS:
Is Florida Still in Play for Republicans?  —  Only nine months from Election Day, Latino voters — the nation's fastest-growing voting bloc — favor President Obama over all the Republican candidates by a wide margin, according to a new poll conducted by Latino Decisions for Univision News and ABC News …
Discussion: Ballot Box
 
 
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Black Women Lead Shift To A Post-Blue World
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