- Perry wows Waterloo while Bachmann ruffles feathers.
- Is it now a three-person race or a two-way?
- Is Perry the frontrunner or doomed to fail?
- Douthat pines for Christie.
- Requiem for an also-ran.
- Bob McDonnell, likely a consideration for the GOP’s VP slot in 2012, heads to New Hampshire.
- Obama begins his Midwest economy-themed bus tour at a new low in Gallup’s daily tracking poll.
- Team Romney calls it the “Magical Misery Tour.”
- Democrats still have Obama’s back (relatively).
- The White House’s economic and political wings have their strategic differences.
- The President gets around to thinking about those vacant seats on the Fed board.
- And Congressional Republicans may want to re-elect Obama after all.
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