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• Romney scores a key endorsement in NH (AP)
• Anything can-happen feel in Iowa's 2012 vote (AP)
• Republicans seek Iowa social conservatives' nod (AP)
• Romney plays it safe on high-stakes debates (AP)
• Romney wins key endorsement of NH Sen. Ayotte (AP)
• GOP field readies spending spree (Politico)
• Supercommittee blame everywhere (Politico)
• Chicago mayor rallies Obama support in Iowa (AP)
• Germans ask 'how' as neo-Nazi crimes unfold (AP)
• President Obama Ignoring America to Save Face Abroad (ContributorNetwork)
• Rick Perry-backed judge proposes Latino districts, infuriates GOP (Daily Caller)
• Congress proposes cuts to watchdog office because it ‘embarrasses’ members [VIDEO] (Daily Caller)
• Ron Paul's strength in Iowa shows it's too soon to write him off (The Christian Science Monitor)
• A Tea Party-Only Supercommittee Finds Success, Without Democrats (Time.com)

Romney scores a key endorsement in NH (AP) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 03:09 PM PST AP - Mitt Romney's Republican presidential campaign steamed forward this weekend, scoring what is one of New Hampshire's most significant political endorsements and fueling a growing sense of inevitability surrounding the former Massachusetts governor's White House bid.

Anything can-happen feel in Iowa's 2012 vote (AP) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 03:09 PM PST AP - The race for the Republican presidential nomination is deeply unsettled with an anything-can-happen feel six weeks before Iowans start the state-by-state process of choosing a GOP challenger for President Barack Obama.

Republicans seek Iowa social conservatives' nod (AP) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 01:56 AM PST AP - Six Republican presidential candidates dove deep into how their religious faith influences their public life, during a free-flowing forum before a large, influential audience of social conservatives in early-voting Iowa on Saturday.

Romney plays it safe on high-stakes debates (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2011 05:48 PM PST AP - For as long as he's been the Republican front-runner, Mitt Romney has avoided taking firm positions on high-stakes Washington spending debates.

Romney wins key endorsement of NH Sen. Ayotte (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2011 08:39 PM PST AP - Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is set to win the endorsement of New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Sunday.

GOP field readies spending spree (Politico) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 02:15 PM PST Politico - For the few Republican presidential candidates who actually have money to spend, the time to use it is running short.

Supercommittee blame everywhere (Politico) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 09:22 AM PST Politico - Hours before the debt panel’s deadline, both parties continue to point fingers.

Chicago mayor rallies Obama support in Iowa (AP) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 01:56 AM PST AP - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched an ardent defense of President Barack Obama in Iowa on Saturday, telling local Democrats that in order to create security for the middle class, "we just can't cut our way to prosperity."

Germans ask 'how' as neo-Nazi crimes unfold (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2011 03:55 AM PST AP - A 2000 firebomb targeting Russian Jewish immigrants at a Duesseldorf railway station. A 2004 nailbombing in a Cologne immigrant neighborhood. A 2008 fire in a Ludwigshafen apartment building that killed nine Turkish immigrants, including five children.

President Obama Ignoring America to Save Face Abroad (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 09:18 AM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Over the last few weeks, President Barack Obama has toured Australia and many Asian countries. At the same time, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reductions is nearing the deficit Armageddon date without a plan. Occupy protests are becoming more violent. The investigations into Solyndra, Fast and Furious and ECSI allegations are heating up. Is the president ignoring his responsibilities at home to try to promote himself as a strong world leader?

Rick Perry-backed judge proposes Latino districts, infuriates GOP (Daily Caller) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 12:31 PM PST Daily Caller - A former Texas Supreme Court justice whose appointment by Gov. Rick Perry led to accusations of racial pandering was part of a Federal District Court decision Thursday to issue a new voting district map for Texas that will likely overturn the map proposed by the Texas Legislature and is designed to create ethnic voting districts for Latino's.

Congress proposes cuts to watchdog office because it ‘embarrasses’ members [VIDEO] (Daily Caller) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 10:00 AM PST Daily Caller - A report authored by Republican Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn entitled “Shooting the Messenger: Congress Targets the Taxpayers’ Watchdog" warns that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) faces further budget cuts at the same time Congress has increased its own budget from “$1.2 billion to nearly $2.3 billion” — its highest level in history.

Ron Paul's strength in Iowa shows it's too soon to write him off (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 10:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - To most pollsters and pundits, any mention of Ron Paul typically comes with an implied asterisk. Whether they say it outright or not, they don’t think the Texas congressman has a chance of being the GOP presidential nominee. Too far outside mainstream, tea party, or born-again socially conservative Republicanism, they say. More libertarian than anything else.

A Tea Party-Only Supercommittee Finds Success, Without Democrats (Time.com) Posted: 20 Nov 2011 06:15 AM PST Time.com - For months, a group of 12 Tea Partyers, with help from the Washington-based libertarian advocacy group FreedomWorks, has convened hearings around the U.S. to map out a way to fix the nation©s fiscal woes

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