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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/3/Mitt_Romney-2-20.jpg” alt=”Mitt Romney” height=”396″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Weakest. Frontrunner. Ever. nbsp;(Joshua Lott/Reuters)/div /div A Republican candidate needs strong1,144 delegates/strong to secure the nomination.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/Newt_Gingrich_-_Matt_Sullivan_-_Reuters.jpg” alt=”Newt Gingrich” height=”372″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”The number of people who don’t hate Newt Gingrich is a very, very small number (Matt Sullivan/Reuters)/div /div a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/newt-gingrich-the-most-disliked-politician-in-america/2012/02/15/gIQAloLoFR_blog.html?wprss=rss_politics”Via/a the emWashington Post/em, new polls from CNN

pimg src=”http://www.dailykos.com/i/user/59419/Daily_Kos_Elections_Polling_Wrap.jpg” //p pThis morning, Chuck Todd and the rest of the gang at MSNBC’s a href=”http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/18/10181450-first-thoughts-newt-mentum-returns”First Read/a sounded a very interesting alarm:/p blockquoteThere are some increasing signs — though all of it anecdotal for now — that Newt Gingrich is gaining some momentum three days before the South Carolina primary.

pimg src=”http://www.dailykos.com/i/user/59419/Daily_Kos_Elections_Polling_Wrap.jpg” //p pThis morning, Chuck Todd and the rest of the gang at MSNBC’s a href=”http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/18/10181450-first-thoughts-newt-mentum-returns”First Read/a sounded a very interesting alarm:/p blockquoteThere are some increasing signs — though all of it anecdotal for now — that Newt Gingrich is gaining some momentum three days before the South Carolina primary.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/73/Daily_Kos_Elections_Liveblog_Banner.jpg” alt=”Daily Kos Elections Liveblog Banner” height=”100″ width=”550″ //div bComplete results/b: a href=”http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/Primary/NH”Politico/a | a href=”http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results”Google/a pspan class=”update”a name=”20120110180445″ href=”/story/2012/01/10/1053500/-New-Hampshire-Republican-primary-liveblog-5#2012011

pa href=”http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/09/11/rel15a.pdf”ORC for CNN/a (PDF). 9/9-11. Republicans.

Still to be negotiated: whether Palin can enter the debate by driving her bus through a ring of fire. I think CNN may be trying to kill us. They have announced who has been invited to their September 12th debate, and it includes, rather inexplicably, two “candidates” who aren’t currently even running for the office : In a statement, CNN announces its line-up for the September 12 Tea Party Express co-sponsored debate in Tampa: Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose empire includes a host of predominantly conservative-leaning institutions, accused his competitors, on Tuesday night, of being the ones with the biases. Speaking at a forum for the public affairs TV series, The Kalb Report, the News Corp.

Looks like Fox is giving the Tea Party Convention their official wingnut stamp of approval: The revolution will be televised. Planners of the National Tea Party Convention, billed as a coming together for the conservative grassroots groups who sprang up in anti-stimulus protests last year, announced late Sunday that they would broadcast main parts of the convention, including the keynote by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday night.

As you may have heard, in an interview on CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, Martha Stewart had some less than flattering things to say about Sarah Palin. Stewart said of Palin She’s very boring to me, very boring. And a very, to me, kind of a dangerous person. I mean, she’s dangerous. She speaks, she’s, she’s so confused. And anyone like that in government is a real problem. Well, I don’t have to tell you that those are exactly the type of fighting words that can make a former Alaskan Governor go rogue! And rogue she went!