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Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks Jan. 19, 2012, at Galena High School in Reno, Nev. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich listens Jan. 20, 2012, to staff during a visit to Children's Hospital in Charleston, S.C. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands with supports during a campaign stop at Harmon's Tree Farm in Lexington, S.C., Friday, Jan., 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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**FILE** A British military official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) adjusts his helmet Jan. 19, 2012, as a NATO helicopter lands at the Provincial Reconstruction Team compound in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich reacts Jan. 19, 2012, to a question at the start of the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum listens to a question during a radio interview Jan. 20, 2012, at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charleston, S.C. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** California Supreme Court Justice Joyce Kennard gestures Jan. 10, 2012, during a hearing in San Francisco. Republicans urged the California Supreme Court to dump newly drawn state Senate districts planned for this year's election. Voters created the California Citizens Redistricting Commission to draw the new maps and take the highly politicized process away from the state Legislature. (Associated Press)
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U.S. soldiers with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. In a separate incident, a senior U.S. defense official says all six reported killed in the crash of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan were U.S. Marines. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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A U.S. soldier with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walks Jan. 19, 2012, by a damaged vehicle at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The attacker blew himself up at an entrance to a sprawling base for U.S. and NATO operations in southern Afghanistan, killing at least six civilians, police said. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich share a laugh during a commercial break at the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (left) makes a point as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich listens during the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential hopefuls (from left) Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul take the stage Jan. 19, 2012, for the Southern Republican Presidential Debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) **FILE**
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a GOP hopeful, speaks to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday. "I was the author of the only bill that actually repealed a federal entitlement - welfare reform." (Associated Press)
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican presidential candidate, arrives to speak at a Lowcountry Sportsmen BBQ in Walterboro, S.C., on Thursday. He called welfare reform "the most successful entitlement reform in your lifetime." (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at the Apollo Theatre in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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U.S. Sen. Scott P. Brown, Massachusetts Republican, exhorts his supporters to re-elect him next fall during his campaign kickoff rally Thursday in Worcester, Mass. He criticized “establishment candidates” who, he said, wage class warfare by pitting one group against another and attack America's free enterprise system. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich participate in the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has a campaign built around supporters who largely reject traditional politics. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Sen. Scott P. Brown, Massachusetts Republican, exhorts his supporters to re-elect him next fall during his campaign kickoff rally Thursday in Worcester, Mass. He criticized “establishment candidates” who, he said, wage class warfare by pitting one group against another and attack America's free enterprise system. (Associated Press)
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a GOP hopeful, speaks to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday. "I was the author of the only bill that actually repealed a federal entitlement - welfare reform," Mr. Santorum said earlier this month. (Associated Press)
