Your afternoon reading:

• "Television ads supporting Rick Perry's presidential campaign are scheduled to start running in Iowa on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the ad buy told POLITICO." — Rick Perry ads start Tuesday in Iowa, Politico

• "Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's GOP presidential campaign is pushing back against a Los Angeles Times article that could prove troublesome. … The Romney campaign was quick to react to the article, and to criticize Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, who succeeded Romney." — Romney blames successor for illegal immigrant health care, CNN

• "That Perry would expand beyond his tight-knit political circle is illuminating and ...

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