LiveBlog for Friday, January 27, 2012

• Sexy Liberal John Fugelsang joins us from the New York Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT for all three hours of Fridays With Fugelsang

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the racial code language and rhetoric used by the GOP in this election

• Political Strategist David Bender calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about last night’s debate and Tuesday’s Florida Primaries

• Republican presidential hopefuls headed into the homestretch of the critical Florida primary campaign Friday after a debate last night that analysts believe gave Mitt Romney a boost over fellow front-runner Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich leads Mitt Romney among Republicans, but he is the weakest of the Republican candidates tested against President Obama, according to an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday evening.

Mitt Romney is revising his federal ethics forms to report more than a half dozen offshore holdings, including income from a multi-million dollar Swiss bank account that was not disclosed last year.

• Retiring Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank (D) will marry his longtime partner Jim Ready of Maine. An aide to the congressman says the wedding will be in his home state.


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