Happy new year! 2012 already has its place in the history books and we look forward to covering the news events that will make it so. It all starts tomorrow in Iowa with the first showdown in the Republican presidential primary. Here are the latest links as the Republican race heats up like never before.
- Gallup: Republican race "most volatile" since polling started
- Romney leads Paul in new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll; Santorum surges
- Santorum savors boost from poll, promises to compete everywhere
- Charlie Black joins Team Romney
- Iowa officials brace for Occupy protests
- Newt says Obama should not take pay if he refuses to work with Congress
- George Will: Obama needn't lose for GOP to win
- Latest from FiveThirtyEight blog on polls and projections
- Rupert Murdoch Joins Twitter, expresses support for Santorum
- Is Mitt Romney the next John Kerry?