One of the biggest and most important unknowns in the Republican Presidential primary right now is whether or not billionaire Sheldon Adelson will put another several million into a Super PAC trying to elect Newt Gingrich.

President Obama’s job approval rating has started to break the very important 50 percent mark according to three new national polls. The CBS News/New York Times poll found him at 50 percent approval to 43 percent disapproval, CNN/ORC International has him at 50 percent approval to 48 percent disapproval, and the Democracy Corps poll puts him at 50 percent approval to 46 percent disapproval.

Since Rick Santorum’s triple win last week the state of the Republican primary has changed dramatically. In the past 24 hours four major national polls have found Rick Santorum slightly leading or effectively tied with Mitt Romney. In addition the polls found Newt Gingrich’s support has falling significantly since his January peak.

A new poll from Quinnipiac shows Mitt Romney’s lead over Gingrich in Florida has grown to nine points from just a two point lead earlier in the week. The size of the Romney lead in the Quinnipiac poll is nearly identical to the lead three other recent polls released yesterday found.

At the GOP debate on Thursday will Wolf Blitzer ask Mitt, Newt, Rick or Ron any question with the tenaciousness we see on display in this video at a European Central Bank press-conference in Ireland?

Last Friday we pointed out that Andrew Breitbart’s yappy little purse-nitwit Dana Loesch, of the ironically titled Big Journalism, went totally TMI on the air when she expressed her deepest darkest fantasy: tinkling on dead people. Fearing the loss of her job as the resident Teabagger rodeo clown on CNN, she’s instructed her staff to go all Dana all the time.

So there I was, surfing around the intertoobz this morning when I came across this headline at CNN: “Stop vilifying venture capitalists.”

I have to admit, I was a bit taken aback at the headline as it surely did not reflect anything I had read.

So here we are, the week between Christmas and New Years. This is a slow news time (as David Dayen noted here), yet it is a classic time for “take out the trash” type news dumps.

Barring some incredibly unusual developments, Mitt Romney is on track to win big in the New Hampshire primary. All recent polls give him a massive double digit lead.

Depending on which polling firm you ask, the leader in Iowa with only days until the caucus is either Ron Paul or Mitt Romney. According to CNN/ORC poll Romney is in first place followed by Paul.