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‘Etch A Sketch’ comment already hurting Romney

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may be way ahead of Rick Santorum to get the Republican vote these coming elections, but the former Massachusetts governor was thrown on the defensive yesterday when a longtime adviser compared his campaign to an Etch a Sketch, a toy that can be shaken to erase what is marked on its surface.

The issue arose when the aide, Eric Fehrnstrom, was asked on CNN whether he is concerned that Romney might be forced by his Republican opponents to take extreme positions during the primary that could alienate moderates in a race against President Barack Obama.

“I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign,” Fehrnstrom said. “Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again.”

The remark marred what would otherwise have been a triumphant day for Romney, 65, fresh from the Illinois victory on March 20. He won the endorsement of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who often had been mentioned as a possible late entrant to the Republican race if the party refused to embrace Romney.

The Etch a Sketch comment handed fresh ammunition to Republican rival Rick Santorum and Democrats as they portray Romney, a second-time presidential contender, as an inauthentic and opportunistic candidate.

“You are not looking at someone who is the Etch-a-Sketch candidate,” Santorum told a cheering crowd yesterday at a Tea Party-organized rally in Mandeville, Louisiana, where he shook one of the toys to make his point.

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Urkel Opens Dancing With The Stars With A Bang

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The 14th season of Dancing With The Stars began on Monday night on ABC as America, as well as judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli, got their first look at this season’s cast. One of the early favorite for Jaleel White, who is known for his role as nerdy teen Steve Urkel on Family Matters(another ABC program), showed that he had the moves to back up the faith of the oddsmakers.

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White earned plaudits from the panel for his performance with partner Kym Johnson (who has won the competition twice) and there is no reason to believe he’ll fall at all from his listing of 9/2 after his first-night showing. White and Johnson tied for the night’s highest marks with classical singer Katherine Jenkins and her partner, Mark Ballas, who has won this competition once.

None of the pairings really did themselves much damage last night and the odds won’t change until the judges and viewers have a chance to see more of the competition. Donald Driver, veteran wide receiver from the Green Bay Packers, has been paired with Peta Murgatroyd, were solid on the evening. Don’t forget about the early favorites, Latino actor William Levy, who burned up the screen with Cheryl Burke and most feel the race for the top spot will come down to Levy and White when it is all said and done.

But there really wasn’t enough to get a good feel for the competition, so check out Dancing With The Stars this week before the real fun starts when the couples’ first-night scores will be paired with the results from next Monday.

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Obama Hits Second Gear As The Reelection Trail Carries On

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The race to represent the Republican Party in this year’s election in an effort to unseat President Barack Obama has been closer than a few people expected, which is fantastic for the President, who is stepping up his efforts for another four years in the White House while his adversaries battle among themselves.

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President Obama is gathering funds for his campaign in preparation for the end of the Republican primaries, which is expected to be won by Massachussets governor Mitt Romney. Even though it was less than the amount Obama raised this time four years ago, it was still more than Romney, who is still using funds for his GOP campaign. The Republicans immediately attempted to spin it Obama’s four-year discrepancy as a sign from the American citizens are not as confident in their President as before, which the Democrats rebuffed.

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Democratic Party -225
Republican Party +185

It isn’t going to be an easy road for President Obama as the American economy is just only recovering (albeit quicker than expected) now from a damaging downturn and employment is just starting to rise. The extra time that the Republican Party spends on their own race gives him more time to gather the resources needed to fight what is surely going to be a nasty campaign on the path to the White House in November.

Romney is still trying to ward off Rick Santorum and New Gingrich (Ron Paul is all but an afterthought) in the Republican race, which gives Obama a small edge as he will be rested for the grueling stretch of campaign. Expect the President to hit the trail even harder and gather donations in order to retain his place in the White House this fall.

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Dancing With The Stars’ Smirnoff Linked With Wilson

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The 14th season of Dancing With The Stars is almost here as it kicks off on March 19th on ABC and the full list of stars are practicing furiously so they can be ready to impress the judges, Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli, as well as the American public. One of the professional dancers is making headlines for a rumored romantic relationship and that should spark a little more interest in the show.

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Karina Smirnoff is making her 11th appearance on Dancing With The Starsand after a second-place finish, a semifinal trip and many quarterfinal visits, she finally won for the first time last season with Army veterans/soap actor J.R. Martinez. She has numerous dancing accolades on her resume, so Smirnoff is well known in those circles and her profile is increasing more among the casual fan.

But it’s going to increase even more if the rumors of a relationship with actor Owen Wilson are true. Wilson and Smirnoff have been seen together recently and both are coming off serious relationships as Wilson broke up with girlfriend Jade Duell last June – just a few months after she had their son, Ford. Meanwhile Smirnoff called off an engagement to Brad Penny, a Major League Baseball pitcher.

Dancing With the Stars Season 14 – Who will win? 
William Levy 4/1
Maria Menounos 5/1
Jaleel White 9/2
Gavin DeGraw 20/1

Wilson should be no stranger to high-profile relationships as he has dated singer Sheryl Crow and actress Kate Hudson while Smirnoff herself has dated Extra host Mario Lopez when the two were partners on Dancing With The Stars in 2006. Smirnoff has also broken off two engagements, to Penny and fellow dancer Maksim Chmerkovsky, so she may want to take things slow this time. You’ll likely hear a lot more about this budding relationship in the coming weeks, if the rumors are indeed true.

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Menounos Having A Tough Time Prepping For Dancing With The Stars

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Dancing With The Stars is set to start on March 19th on ABC, with hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet (who won the seventh season of the show), and judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli. The cast of characters is star-studded, but one in particular is getting a lot of attention. Even though she is an early favorite, she is having issues picking up on some of the steps.

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Maria Menounos hosts Extra and has recently donned a bikini in Times Square, so she isn’t going to have a problem with the outfits that she’ll have to wear on Dancing With The Stars. But she has admitted to having trouble with the dance steps that she’ll have to perfect if she is going to avoid elimination. She has been paired with Derek Hough, the only person to win three times, and he has also earned three Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Choreography on Dancing With The Stars, so Menounos couldn’t have a better teacher; she has admitted as much herself. She has never been able to actually learn how to dance, but Menounos says she is having fun with Hough and that is half the battle when you are learning to dance.

Dancing With the Stars Season 14 – Who will win? 
William Levy 4/1
Maria Menounos 5/1

Sportsbooks have Menounos at 5/1 currently, behind actor William Levy at 4/1, and with her increasingly public profile, she is sure to earn a ton of votes. But will she impress the judges, who are notoriously difficult on the competitors? In particular, Tonioli has made headlines in the past for his remarks (Michael Bolton had an issue with Tonioli in the 11th season), so Menounos has to pick up her game if she wants to remain a part of Dancing With The Stars.

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Jackson Passes On X Factor Role But Spears On Tap?

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The second season of The X Factor won’t air on Fox until September of this year, but of course, the early discussion surrounding the show is, who will take over for last year’s judges?

At the end of January, it was revealed that Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, along with host Steve Jones, would not be returning to the show for the second season, which focuses on the hunt for a singer that will win a $5 million recording deal with Epic Records (Melanie Amero won the first season). Creator and judge Simon Cowell are out to replace the two judges, while L.A. Reid will stick around for another season.

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It was revealed that Cowell had been in talks with Whitney Houston to be a judge on The X Factorbefore the singer passed away last month and now fellow icon Janet Jackson has confirmed that she will not be taking the role either, stating a tour and a role in a Tyler Perry movie will keep her too busy.

X Factor USA – Season 2 – Who will win?
Male +120
Female EVEN
Group +400

One person who does seem interested in joining Cowell and Reid on The X Factor is Britney Spears, who has been officially offered the role by Cowell, says manager Louis Walsh, although Cowell himself has not confirmed or denied it. Spears is coming off an album, “Femme Fatale”, which went platinum last year and actually got some good reviews. She just got engaged on December and she seems to be headed back towards the top…or at least, not being a walking tabloid headline.

However, that’s going to be difficult because, well, she is Britney Spears and you know that is why Cowell wants her on the show. He says he wants to hear what she has to say about these artists and while that may be true, Cowell also knows she’ll bring in her audience, which means ratings. Stay tuned for more on the Cowell-Spears connection and other news on The X Factor.

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Tim Tebow and Taylor Swift dating?

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has been romantically linked to Taylor Swift.

Tim and Taylor have prompted whispers that they may be the nation’s most wholesome couple since Mickey and Minnie after allegedly being spotted on a dinner date in Los Angeles on Monday.

Whispers that the NFL’s most eligible bachelor might be cozying up the Grammy darling first surfaced after the two were spied chatting each other up at an event last month.

A spywitness told Clevver News:

“After dinner, he walked her out and then he walked back to join two other people. I think they may have been with their agents.”

Ok, so a business meeting or something else?

The “Speak Now” songstress has famously dated the likes of Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhall and Joe Jonas. More recently, Swift was rumored to be an item with Eddie Redmayne, an English actor who would have been her co-star in the movie musical Les Miserables.

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Packers’ Donald Driver among favorites to win Dancing with the Stars

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Athletes have fared well on the ABC show “” – can current Green Bay Packers receiver continue that trend on the new season? DWTS stars begins on March 19 — Place your Dancing With the Stars bets at WagerWeb.com.

Sports figures, particularly current and former NFL players, have fared well on the show. Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith won in 2007, a season after Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice finished second. Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward won in 2011.

Among other athletes to have made a strong transition from their field to the dance floor, short-track speedskater Apolo Ohno, IndyCar driver Helio Castroneves, figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi (beating just-retired defensive end Jason Taylor) and gymnast Shawn Johnson have all won. Former defensive end Warren Sapp also finished second in his season, as did Olympic gold medal figure skater Evan Lysacek.

Driver isn’t the only athlete in this field – tennis Hall of Famer Martina Navratilova, arguably the greatest female player of all time, is also competing.

Driver, 37, the Packers’ all-time leading wide receiver, said on his Facebook page: “I am looking forward to being on DWTS! Thank you to all of my great supporters, this will be a fun journey for all of us!” It’s not clear if Driver will be back with Green Bay this season as the Pack are pretty well stocked at receiver.

Among those joining Driver are Jaleel White (Urkel on TV’s “Family Matters), Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls on “Little House on the Prairie”), actor Jack Wagner, Sherri Shepherd of “The View,” Maria Menounos (TV reporter for “Extra” who paid off a Super Bowl bet by wearing a bikini on the show), musician Gavin Degraw, William Levy (who’s been connected to singer/actress/”American Idol” judge Jennifer Lopez), Glady Knight (sans the Pips), Disney’s Roshon Fegan and mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins. Most believe Levy is the one to beat.

Driver’s partner is 31-year old Australian Peta Murgatroyd, who is in her second season on the show. Her previous partner was player Ron Artest, a.k.a. Metta World Peace. They were the first couple eliminated last season.

Here are the other pairings for the show:

White will partner with Kym Johnson.

Gilbert will partner with Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

Wagner will partner with Anna Trebunskaya.

Shepherd will partner with Val Chmerkovskiy.

Knight will partner with Tristan McManus.

DeGraw will partner with Karina Smirnoff.

Menounos will partner with Derek Hough.

Fegan will partner with Chelsie Hightower.

Levy will partner with Cheryl Burke.

Jenkins will partner with Mark Ballas.

Navratilova will partner with Tony Dovolani.

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Romney Starting To Take Control Of Republican Race

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It doesn’t seem like that long ago that Barack Obama was named the 44th President of the United States, but a lot has gone down in the last three-plus years as we get ready for another election in 2012.  President Obama will have to fend off the Republicans in order to stay in office for another four years, and we are getting closer to seeing who his competition will be.

Right now, it looks like Mitt Romney is the favorite to represent the GOP as some have him at 2/11 after he has picked up wins in New Hampshire (primary), Florida (primary), Nevada (caucus), Maine (caucus), Arizona (primary) and Michigan (primary) and currently holds 41.5% of the popular vote among Republicans. Romney, from Massachusetts, also ran in the 2008 primaries and he almost looks like a lock to come away with the win this time.

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However, Romney still has to hold off Pennsylvania’s Rick Santorum at 5/1, who has won in Iowa (caucus), Colorado (caucus), Minnesota (caucus) and Missouri (primary), although he has been accused by cheating by Romney’s staff in Michigan. Newt Gingrich out of Georgia comes in at 20/1 despite leading Santorum in the popular vote by a count of 23.2% to 22.1%; Gingrich has won only South Carolina (primary) and he’ll need a furious late push just to hold off Santorum.

Ron Paul of Texas is the wild card in this race with almost 11% of the popular vote and odds of 30/1 to represent the Republicans, and with no major wins it’ll take a small miracle for Paul to even catch up to Gingrich and Santorum.

2012 US Presidential Election – Republican Nominee
Mitt Romney 2/11
Rick Santorum 5/1
Newt Gingrich 20/1
Ron Paul 30/1

It seems like it is Romney’s race to lose, but the 64-year-old governor has to avoid any major mistakes coming down the stretch if he is going to try and move President Obama out of the White House in November.

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Brazeau Favored Over Trudeau In Charity Boxing Match

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Have you ever wished that politicians would just settle their differences in the ring instead of on the campaign trail? That is about to happen at the end of March and regardless of who is the victor in the ring, the real winner will be charity.

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Justin Trudeau is incredibly popular in Canada as a member of Parliament in Quebec for the Liberal Party and he has picked up a large number of his followers from his late father, Pierre Trudeau, who was arguably the most beloved Prime Minister in the history of the country. But he has decided to participate in a charity boxing match on March 31st at the Hampton Inn in Ottawa and odds makers have him as a heavy underdog.

Political Boxing Special – Patrick Brazeau vs Justin Trudeau March 31st 2012, Ottawa, Canada
Patrick Brazeau -500
Justin Trudeau +300

Trudeau has been put up at +300 by Bovada in his bout with Patrick Brazeau, a member of the Conservative Party and an activist for aboriginal rights. Brazeau is also currently the youngest senator in Canada and is a -500 favorite, standing at 5’10” and weighing 183 pounds. Brazeau, who is three years younger than his opponent at 37-years-old, has a reach of 70 inches, which is three fewer than Trudeau, who is 6’2” and 175 pounds. However, Brazeau has a black belt in karate and appears to be much stronger physically than Trudeau.

It’s all for charity, however, as the money that is raised from the match will go to the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation and it’s being billed as the “Fight for the Cure”. The elder Trudeau passed away of lung cancer in 2004, so this is obviously a personal issue for his son and that could be the motivation he needs to pull off the upset. Now, if we could only schedule a few more of these political boxing matches.

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