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5:10 PM ET, February 28, 2012

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
After Many Momentum Shifts, Michigan Is Too Close to Call  —  People sometimes apply the term “tossup” a bit too broadly, using it to refer to anything close enough that they don't want to render a prediction about it.  —  In Michigan, however, the term is appropriate.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney also said he voted in Dem primaries to influence the race  —  The Romney campaign has been denouncing Democratic efforts - and now those by Rick Santorum - to get Democrats to vote in Michigan's open primary.  —  Mitt Romney himself called it a “new low” in politics in a round of TV interviews.
CNN:
Santorum flips on Dems voting in GOP primaries
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney: I'm not willing ‘to light my hair on fire’ to win conservative votes
Discussion: Guardian and Althouse
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Momentum back toward Santorum in MI?
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The Michigan primary: Five counties to watch
Discussion: GOP 12, MLive.com and Hot Air
Politico:
Mitt Romney: Rick Santorum's ‘dirty tricks’ could steal Michigan
Discussion: CNN
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
How Mitt Romney booked Kid Rock
Discussion: Dependable Renegade
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Conservatives take dimmer view of Romney ahead of voting
Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum on top in second straight Ohio poll
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama hits Romney with withering mockery as he makes case for reelection  —  In a speech to the United Auto Workers just now, Obama defended his decision to bail out the auto industry, lacing into Mitt Romney with withering derision.  But this speech was about more than the auto-bailout.
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White House / Detroit Free Press:
Transcript: Read Obama's speech today to the United Auto Workers Convention  —  Here's a transcript of the speech President Barack Obama planned to give to the United Auto Workers Convention at 11:30 a.m. in Washington D.C.  —  Hello, Autoworkers!  Thanks Bob, for that introduction.
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Suggests Romney Shoveling ‘A Load of You-Know-What’
Discussion: Campaign 2012
Craig Bannister / CNSNews:
Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control, Student Tells Pelosi Hearing Touting Freebie Mandate  —  A Georgetown co-ed told Rep. Nancy Pelosi's hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex that they're going broke, so you and I should pay for their birth control.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Santorum regrets ‘throw up’ response to Kennedy speech  —  Rick Santorum regrets saying that he wanted to “throw up” in response to watching a video clip of President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech about the separation of church and state.  —  “I wish I had that particular line back,” …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Backs Away From JFK ‘Throw Up’ Remark: ‘I Wish I Had That Particular Line Back’  —  Rick Santorum backed away from his claim that President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech about the separation of church and state makes him want to “throw up” during an appearance on the Laura Ingraham radio show this morning.
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Sorry, The Restaurant Receipt Left By That Nasty, Rich Banker Is A Photoshop Hoax  —  The restaurant receipt that a California banker purportedly used to denigrate a waitress—while also leaving her a one percent tip—was wildly “altered and exaggerated,” according to a spokesperson …
James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Why I am so rude to Warmists  —  Sharing a car back from the BBC Big Question debate in Cardiff on Sunday I had a tremendous bust-up with one of my fellow panelists which I think many of you would have enjoyed hugely.  (Our driver could barely keep a straight face).
Discussion: Pirate's Cove and EU Referendum
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Possum Republicans  —  Politicians do what they must to get re-elected.  So it's not unexpected that Republican senators like Richard Lugar and Orrin Hatch would swing sharply to the right to fend off primary challengers.  —  As Jonathan Weisman reported in The Times on Sunday …
Elizabeth Lopatto / Bloomberg:
Wealthy More Likely to Lie, Cheat: Researchers  —  Are society's most noble actors found within society's nobility?  —  That question spurred Paul Piff, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, to explore whether higher social class is linked to higher ideals, he said in a telephone interview.
ABCNEWS:
What Happens if Rick Santorum Wins Michigan?  —  That's the question I asked ABC News contributor Matt Dowd ahead of tonight's primary.  Mitt Romney has been bouncing up and down in the polls of his home state, and is now neck and neck with Rick Santorum.  —  “If Rick Santorum wins tonight it's …
Rachel Dissell / Plain Dealer:
Parents of teen accused of shootings faced charges  —  CHARDON, Ohio — It appears that T.J. Lane had violence in his life from the beginning.  —  Geauga County court records show the father of the teen who authorities say shot five students at Chardon High School on Monday had been arrested …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Will Mitt Go Quietly?  —  I've addressed this a few times.  But it's probably worth doing again.  —  This morning I got this email from TPM Reader SL ...  SL's question, I think, all but answers itself.  And this is basically why the whole White Knight fantasy is so preposterous.  Go quietly.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
What's the Matter With ‘Nebraska’?  —  A frivolous essay underscores the left's serious prejudices.  —  This column has recently become skeptical of the view—nearly universal on the liberal left but common as well among conservative elites—that Rick Santorum is “unelectable” …
Discussion: Rod Dreher
Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously  —  The corporate research firm has branded itself as a CIA-like “global intelligence” firm, but only Julian Assange and some over-paying clients are fooled.  —  On June 2, 2009, Anya Alfano of Stratfor, which describes itself as a private …
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Guantanamo detainees get new $750G soccer field  —  At a time of record deficits, a new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay is just getting the finishing touches — at a cost of $750,000 to taxpayers.  —  The project was the highlight of a tour Tuesday of the detention camp …
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Unbearable Gleickness of Being: An Omnibus Climate Update  —  The Gleickgate hits just keep coming.  (Or is it Fakegate, as Heartland is calling it, or Gleick-Out, as I've called it?  Doesn't matter.)  First, Gleick has taken a leave of absence from his post as president of the Pacific Institute …
Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  President Obama Delivers Barnburner To UAW, Dings Romney And Santorum  —  Mitt Romney won't “light his hair on fire” just to excite the conservative base, he admitted to an audience Tuesday.  President Obama offered him a helpful political clinic the same day …
Wall Street Journal:
For the Costliest Homes, Foreclosure Comes Slowly  —  Michael Underwood hasn't made a full mortgage payment on his four-bedroom house in San Francisco's East Bay area since early 2008.  But he has yet to be evicted from the home, which includes a lagoon-style pool carved into the property's natural sandstone.
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Parties clash over scope of Blunt amendment  —  Senate Democrats said Tuesday that up to 20 million women could lose access to healthcare services under an amendment from Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), but Republicans argue that the proposal would change very little about the healthcare system.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Politico:
GOP frets over 2012 knife fight  —  National Republican leaders are voicing increasing dismay over the course of the party's presidential primary, which has fallen into such a negative grind that they warn could cost them the White House.  —  At the core of their concern is the atmosphere …
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
New Hampshire May Revoke Its Gay Marriage Law  —  As same-sex marriage supporters celebrate victories in Washington and Maryland this month, they are keeping a wary eye on New Hampshire, where lawmakers may soon vote to repeal the state's two-year-old law allowing gay couples to wed.
 
 
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Joseph B. White / Washington Wire:
Battle for Michigan Comes Down to Small Slice of Voters
Discussion: The Agonist
New York Times:
Liu's Campaign Treasurer Arrested on Fraud Charges
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Senior GOP lobbyist to leave Quinn Gillespie
Discussion: Politico
Fox News:
Report: Government wasting ‘tens of billions’ of dollars annually on duplication, overlap
Tim Mak / Politico:
Eric Holder on the Hill faces friendlier fire
Discussion: Mediaite
Scott Wong / Politico:
Reid blasts Romney on Senate floor
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Hill
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja abruptly announced his resignation …
Discussion: Hot Air
Digby / Crooks and Liars:
Blue America Welcomes Ken Aden (D-AR)
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Carnahan opts to challenge fellow Dem
Discussion: bnd.com and Taegan Goddard's …
Harold A. Pollack / New York Times:
Do Liberals Disdain the Disabled?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael S. Greve / Online Library of Law and Liberty:
Climate Change, Part I: Catastrophe
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Jessica Firger / Wall Street Journal:
Occupy Groups Get Funding
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Gothamist
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal
Discussion: Althouse
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Democratic lobbyists giving cold shoulder to Obama super-PAC
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
 

 
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