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Secret money is funding more election ads

More than a third of the advertising tied to the presidential race has been funded by nonprofit groups that will never have to reveal their donors, suggesting that a significant portion of the 2012 elections will be wrapped in a vast cloak of secrecy.

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Rick Santorum starts to get Newt Gingrich treatment from Mitt Romney

LAS VEGAS — Rick Santorum is starting to receive the Newt Gingrich treatment.

With polls showing Santorum the more serious threat in two states voting on Tuesday, Minnesota and Missouri, Mitt Romney’s campaign on Monday unloaded on the former Pennsylvania senator the way it did on Gingrich in the run-up to last month’s Florida primary.

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Romney’s patriot act; Gingrich flashbacks; and a postal regulator’s globe-trotting (read-this roundup)

It seems that Mitt Romney’s impromptu performance of “America the Beautiful” is becoming a campaign trail staple.

Our colleague Philip Rucker reports that the former Massachusetts governor is making a spoken-word performance of the patriotic tune — even though our resident fact checker Glenn Kessler says the GOP candidate isn’t quite accurate with his claims about national anthems.

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Minnesota, Colorado, Missouri eve: Where are the candidates spending their day?

Three states hold early nominating contests Tuesday — and while none of those contests is as high profile as the early states that have come before (or the Super Tuesday states up ahead next month), the four GOP contenders are nonetheless hustling to make the rounds and make a competitive showing.

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Marco Rubio takes on Obama over contraceptive rule

Marco Rubio has said he’s not interested in being vice president. Repeatedly.

But the Florida Republican senator has thrust himself into the middle of a high-profile, hot-button controversy — a move that will likely spark more talk of his future plans.

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What Komen spends on Komen

DALLAS - Nancy Brinker, founder and chief executive of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, took home $417,000 in salary in 2010, according to financial documents posted on the charity’s Website, and paid 50 top executives more than $100,000 each.

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The true conservative alternative: Ron Paul?

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are fighting for the right to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney.

But they both lost that battle in Nevada — to Ron Paul.

Entrance polls from Saturday’s Nevada caucuses show Romney racking up huge wins among the vast majority of demographics, which isn’t surprising given that he took about 50 percent of the vote.

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Mitt Romney’s misfire on the national anthem

“We are the only people on the earth that put our hand over our heart during the playing of the national anthem. It was FDR who asked us to do that, in honor of the blood that was being shed by our sons and daughters in far-off places.”

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Bill Clinton, ‘America’s first Jewish president’

Little Rock, Ark. — Bill Clinton was affectionately introduced as so pro-Israel that he was effectively “the country’s first Jewish president” on Saturday night. In town to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Federation of Arkansas., Clinton was awarded the group’s Tikkun Olam Lifetime Achievement Award.

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