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Earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s team sent out an e-blast claiming:  "Everyone from President Obama's press secretary, to Senator Harry Reid, to Obama's liberal campaign machines funded with millions of special-interest dollars [has] put Marco at the top of their enemies list.”
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Newt Gingrich's faltering presidential campaign will receive another massive cash infusion from Sheldon Adelson, CBS News is reporting.

The former House Speaker's Republican presidential bid has been kept alive by the Vegas king thus far. But, with Gingrich's lackluster performances in recent states, political observers and pundits have largely speculated that Adelson may have said enough's enough.
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With all the frenzy over the shifting GOP so-called "front-runners," one thing that has remained constant is the chatter over who could be picked by the eventual nominee as the ticket's vice presidential candidate.

That was clearly evident on The Fix Live Friday morning, where it didn't take long for the focus to turn to Florida's own Republican darling, Sen. Marco Rubio.
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What if you hosted a presidential debate and no one came?

CNN announced it today: it will cancel its presidential debate that was set to take place in Atlanta.

Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum indicated they had no appetite to travel to Georgia for yet another Republican presidential primary debate on March 1, ahead of Super Tuesday.

Not surprisingly, the news was not well-received by the Gingrich camp, whose candidate relies on strong debate performances and the roar of a crowd.
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A new Republican National Committee infographic, based on an analysis by The Washington Post this week, shows a web of Obama "insiders" in the Department of Energy who are tied to clean-energy companies that received billions in federal dollars.
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Newt Gingrich's moon colony should be grounded, according to a new poll of GOP voters.

The Hill, a Washington, D.C.-based newspaper, is reporting that Newt Gingrich’s moon colony has a long way to go before it meets with voters' approval. The Hill poll reveals 64 percent of Republicans disapprove of the United States building a permanent base on the moon. Only 21 percent of GOP voters favor the idea.

Continuing their distaste for all things Newt, women -- most of all -- scoffed at the idea, with only 14 percent approving of the colony.

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Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, continues to push an amendment to SB 1208 that is raising alarms with consumers and identity theft watchdogs. 

The amendment would continue to allow the controversial practice of releasing consumers’ Social Security numbers to a wide array of private firms and individuals, some of whom market abandoned property recovery services.

The firms are trying to get a slice of the more than $1 billion that currently resides in the Florida Bureau of Abandoned Property.
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GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is the latest to join the now-global Tebowing craze.  


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In a newly released ad, the Republican National Committee compares candidate Obama's promises in Nevada to President Obama's record in the state.


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With all the media chatter about the GOP super PACs’ assault on the airwaves, Sen. Marco Rubio predicts the Obama campaign will take negative ads to the next level.
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