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9:50 PM ET, January 21, 2012

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Michael O'Brien / msnbc.com:
Gingrich wins SC GOP primary, beating Romney  —  Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary, capping off a remarkable comeback for his presidential bid that reshapes the trajectory of the battle for the GOP nomination.  —  Based on exit polls and early returns …
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McKay Coppins / Politics:
BYU Students Bus In To South Carolina To Rally For Romney  —  The campaign has been buzzing about growing energy at recent events.  But it turns out, many of the candidate's most energetic fans are actually in from Provo, Virginia, or D.C.  —  (Reuters / JIM YOUNG)
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
South Carolina primary exit polls: 2/3rds say debates mattered  —  Nearly two out of three South Carolina Republican primary voters say the recent Republican presidential debates played an important factor in their decision, according to early CBS News exit polls - a good sign for Newt Gingrich …
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina primary, CBS News projects  —  Newt Gingrich has defeated Mitt Romney in the South Carolina Republican primary, CBS News is projecting from analysis based on exit polls and early vote totals.  Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are battling for third place.
Discussion: Wonkette, 2012 Decoded and Atlas Shrugs
Abby Rapoport / American Prospect:
No One Cares About the Affair  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to a crowd in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.  —  Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina—One of the larger tourist landmarks in the Charleston-area is a decommissioned warship that's been converted to a museum.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Eschaton
Richard A. Oppel Jr / The Caucus:
Santorum Says He Will Remain in Race Through Florida  —  CHAPIN, S.C. — Rick Santorum said he would be pleased with a third-place finish in South Carolina Saturday but vowed to stay in the presidential race through the Florida primary no matter what.  —  He also blasted his “desperate” …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Gingrich Is Well-Positioned as South Carolina Votes
New York Magazine:
Heilemann: USS Gingrich Now Boarding in South Carolina
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Santorum releases Florida campaign schedule just after SC polls close
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Romney demands Gingrich release contract for Freddie Mac work
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and CNN
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Campaign Begins Preparing For Possible South Carolina Loss
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Not Just A Democrat Dirty Trick, But A Crime  —  A few years ago, as part of its strategy of facilitating voter fraud as a means of winning close elections, the Democratic Party undertook a campaign to secure as many Secretary of State offices in swing states as possible.
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Shane Vander Hart / Iowa Grounds:
Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz Targeted for Identity Theft by Former Obama Staffer  —  I heard this on WHO Radio tonight driving home, and then I saw this article in The Des Moines Register. … So for political reasons Secretary Schultz and his brother Thomas were targeted... hmmmmm.... Where are we Chicago?
Discussion: Campaign 2012 and The PJ Tatler
Iowa Department of Public Safety:
Man Charged with Identity Theft after Falsely Implicating Secretary of State in Illegal Activity
Discussion: National Review
Kevin Hall / The Iowa Republican:
Former Obama Staffer Busted for Stealing Iowa Secretary of State's Identity
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Gingrich confronted on race, agrees to meet with Sharpton  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. — Newt Gingrich was confronted by a black man outside Tommy's Country Ham House, who drilled him on his comments on having poor children work as janitors.  —  The man, who sounded like he had a northern accent …
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Fox News:
Sheila Jackson Lee: Newt Using ‘Codewords’ to be Racist  —  BASHIR: Let me play something that you said about the current GOP debate on the floor of the house on Wednesday.  Just listen.  I think what you said and what I was hoping to run is we find candidates like Newt Gingrich who simply …
Charles Dharapak / ABCNEWS:
No Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich Throw Down at Tommy's Ham House
Discussion: National Review
Charles Murray / Wall Street Journal:
The New American Divide  —  The ideal of an ‘American way of life’ is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated.  Charles Murray on what's cleaving America, and why.  —  America is coming apart.
New York Times:
The iEconomy: Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class  —  When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.  —  But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Huckabee Wants To Know If Obama Got College Loans “As A Foreign Student”  —  During a Fox News appearance this evening, Mike Huckabee suggested that Mitt Romney, who has come under fire for refusing to immediately release his tax returns, respond by challenging President Obama to release …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Averages 44% Approval in 3rd Year  —  Averaged 43% job approval in most recent quarter in office  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama averaged 44% job approval for his third full year in office, which ended Jan. 19.  His third-year average is down slightly from his second-year average …
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Ron Edmonds / Investor's Business Daily:
Exactly 3 years in, Obama's job approval hits lowest level yet
 
 
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Jason Noble / Iowa Caucuses:
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Labor jumps into GOP primary fray
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CNN:
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