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Romney's bad day is Santorum's best in GOP race
(AP)
AP - Republican Rick Santorum is looking to capitalize on a string of stunning victories that snapped his four-state losing streak and raised new questions about front-runner Mitt Romney's clout with conservatives.
Analysis: Romney losses show conservative woes
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AP - Mitt Romney just can't shake his difficulty attracting conservatives. And that reality is undercutting his effort to cast himself as the inevitable Republican presidential nominee and prolonging a race that each day exposes deep divisions within the party.
Santorum wins in 3 states as Romney stalls
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AP - A resurgent Rick Santorum has been declared the winner in three states, raising questions about Mitt Romney's appeal with conservatives at the core of the Republican Party.
Santorum's gamble pays off
(AP)
AP - Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum made a calculated decision a few weeks ago.
Santorum jumps into second place in delegate race
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AP - Former Sen. Rick Santorum moved into second place Tuesday in the race for delegates with wins in Republican presidential caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota.
Abortion, birth control grab political spotlight
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AP - Political turmoil over abortion and birth control spread suddenly on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.
White House hinting compromise on birth control
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AP - Hammered by Republicans and the Catholic Church, the White House hinted at compromise Tuesday as it struggled to calm an election-year uproar caused by its rule requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with access to free birth control.
Romney intensifies fight for social conservatives
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AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shifted his focus from the economy to abortion, religious freedom and gay marriage in recent days, part of an intensified effort to win over social conservatives in states voting Tuesday.
Football feud: McConnell vs. Manchin
(Politico)
Politico - There's still fallout from the two senators' bitter lobbying battle over their alma maters.
Empowering Burma's voice of change
(Politico)
Politico - Opinion: Burma is now sending signals that it is ready to change direction.
Santorum wins Missouri GOP presidential primary
(AP)
AP - Rick Santorum has won the Missouri Republican primary, a nonbinding election that carries bragging rights but does not award any delegates in the race for the presidential nomination.
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama embraces 'super PAC'
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AP - In a reversal, President Barack Obama is embracing the big-money fundraising groups he assailed as a "threat to democracy" on the grounds they let money corrode elections. His shift is a pragmatic move to win re-election, and a concession that his team had no choice but to catch up and go along with today's supercharged rules.
Obama refuses to pick sides in Super Bowl
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AP - President Barack Obama isn't picking sides this Super Bowl Sunday.
Italy: Court keeps ship captain under house arrest
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AP - An Italian court refused Tuesday to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off a Tuscan island last month.
Obama Seeks to Cool War Fever While Keeping Up Pressure on Iran
(Time.com)
Time.com - Nobody likely envies the challenge President Barack Obama faces getting his "messaging" right on Iran
Obama Wants to Avoid an Iranian Military Conflict; Good Luck with That
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama said Sunday it would be risky to attack Iran. Ya think? He wasn't concerned about Iranian military capabilities, and really shouldn't be. They are no match for anything the U.S. Navy would throw at them or anything our allies already have positioned in the region. He's more concerned about the impact it would have on the price of oil.
After Florida win, Romney campaign confident of Hispanic support
(Daily Caller)
Daily Caller - Mitt Romney won the Florida primary Tuesday by a commanding 14-point margin, thanks in no small part to the Hispanic community.
Democrats slam Romney in preview of possible November race
(Daily Caller)
Daily Caller - Democrats dumped on Gov. Mitt Romney Tuesday night, saying he won the Florida GOP primary only because of expensive negative ads, that the GOP turnout was low, and that Romney is both “extreme” and “out of touch.”
"ShePAC" rallies for conservative Republican women
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Reuters - An adviser to Sarah Palin, a Tea Party leader and a Republican politician are starting a super PAC to endorse conservative women running for office and gather women's support for the Republican nominee in the presidential election.
Tea party: Warming or resigned to Mitt Romney?
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AP - Long skeptical of Mitt Romney, tea party activists are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after abandoning hope of finding a nominee they like better.