- Romney looks to squelch Santorum's late rise
(AP)
AP - Mitt Romney hopes his presidential campaign hasn't ignored Rick Santorum's aggressive attacks for too long, as caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota on Tuesday could reshuffle the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
- Messy caucuses in Nevada, Iowa raise questions
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AP - After back-to-back fiascos in Nevada and Iowa, the term "caucus" may be on its way to becoming a bad word in the GOP lexicon.
- Obama campaign urges fundraisers to back super PAC
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AP - President Barack Obama's campaign is asking top fundraisers to support a Democratic-leaning outside group that is backing the president's re-election bid, reversing Obama's opposition to "super" political action committees, which can spend unlimited amounts of cash to influence elections.
- Colo. caucuses allow a view of support out West
(AP)
AP - Colorado's caucuses offer the Republican candidates for president a glimpse of their support in the Mountain West.
- GOP gets Minn. focus now, uphill fall fight awaits
(AP)
AP - In presidential politics, Minnesota is as close to a Democratic fortress as states come.
- Tea party: Warming or resigned to Mitt Romney?
(AP)
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.
- Romney intensifies fight for social conservatives
(AP)
AP - Presidential contender Mitt Romney is fighting to win over social conservatives in Tuesday's Republican caucuses.
- Looking to reset campaign, Santorum hits 3 states
(AP)
AP - Republican Rick Santorum is planning some last-minute campaigning in each of the three states holding presidential contests Tuesday.
- Texas Dems lock horns with Cuellar
(Politico)
Politico - Party officials are fuming over the Texas lawmaker’s alliance with Rick Perry’s administration.
- Romney wins Facebook fan primary
(Politico)
Politico - The GOP hopeful gained 12,000 new Facebook fans on the day he won the Florida primary.
- Gingrich woos Ohio's early GOP primary voters
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AP - Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is campaigning in Ohio in hopes of appealing to Republicans who will vote well ahead of the state's March 6 primary.
- Paul invests in Minn. in search of 1st GOP win
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AP - Ron Paul has invested days of campaigning and money for television ads ahead of caucuses in Minnesota, where he's hoping he can eke out the first win of his Republican presidential campaign.
- Obama says he deserves re-election, job's not done
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama says he deserves re-election, despite the nation's economic troubles.
- French minister's remarks seen as Muslim putdown
(AP)
AP - France's interior minister has walked into a firestorm of controversy with his weekend comments that some civilizations — notably his own — are worth more than others.
- Obama campaign returning funds tied to Mexican fugitive
(Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is returning more than $200,000 in donations from the family of a fugitive casino magnate linked to violence and corruption in Mexico who has been seeking a pardon, Obama's campaign confirmed on Tuesday.
- Analysis: Romney win leaves rivals few options
(AP)
AP - Mitt Romney's big win in Nevada four days after his breakthrough victory in Florida spells big trouble for his remaining rivals. Simply put: Is there any way to stop Romney now?
- 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.”
- Sarah Palin Writes About Her Son in Newsweek -- and Heads Explode
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | After tweeting angrily about how Newsweek had run an article about "dumb" critics of Barack Obama by Andrew Sullivan, a "Trig Truther," Sarah Palin has published her own piece in the same magazine about her special-needs son.
- Poll shows age, ideology divide NV GOP priorities
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AP - Preliminary results of an entrance poll shows Nevadans participating in today's caucuses were focused on the economy and which candidate could best defeat Obama. The deeply conservative electorate included the largest share of tea party backers and the highest number of Mormons of any state to cast ballots thus far in the nomination contest.