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Input: The Republican National Committee is rolling out a plan to review what worked and what didn't for the party in the 2012 cycle, appointing five people at the top of a committee that will make recommendations on things like demographics, messaging and fundraising. 
  
 The Growth and Opportunity Project is going to be chaired by RNC committee member Henry Barbour, longtime Jeb Bush adviser and political operative Sally Bradshaw, former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, Puerto Rico RNC committee member Zori Fonalledas, and South Carolina RNC member Glenn McCall. Priebus, who is running for a second term, is holding a call with committee members to roll out the plan this afternoon. 
  
 The plan is to focus on: campaign mechanics, fundraising, demographics, messaging, outside groups, campaign finance, the national primary process and, last but not least, what the successful Democratic efforts revealed about the way forward, and recommend plans for the way forward, sources familiar with the plan said. 
  
 Priebus had told a large group of donors in New York last week that the review would be conducted outside the building and would not be led by RNC staff. But sources familiar with the project said that there are 2 RNC senior staffers, Ben Kay and Sara Armstrong, assigned to the project as support staff, saying the goal between them and the RNC members involved was to have, as one source said, "both inside and outside influence" to bring in a several different points of view. 
  
 Still, the source insisted that "the GOP has problems but they are solvable. We have to look at what we are doing right and what we’re doing wrong and lay out our vision and plans for Americans so everyone knows what we stand for. 2010 was the biggest mid-term win for one party since the 1938 election. Our ideas still resonate, but we need to examine what’s working and what isn’t. We have 30 Governors right now, but we want to listen and learn so we do better in presidential years as well." 
  
 Still, given the complaints about the party, the composition of the committee includes at least one Priebus ally - Barbour - and others with ties to Bush-world. It includes demographic diversity, but less so ideologically. Officials said the review will include a broad swath of people within the party, including donors and grassroots members, but it remains to be seen how conservative activists react. 
  
 The main focus of the review is inclusion of new voters for future victories, the sources said, calling the eight areas of review an initial start, with other areas getting talked about as time goes on. There will be "informal discussions with small and large groups," and formal sit-downs and conference calls. They will look to give Priebus a review in the coming months, the source said. 
  
 The RNC isn’t the only group assessing how 2012 went so terribly wrong. The high command of American Crossroads, the most powerful of the GOP SuperPACs, met last week in Washington, Republican sources tell POLITICO. Heavyweight advisers Haley Barbour, Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove were all in town for the meeting, which featured a discussion of the campaign and the first extensive conversation about how the group should approach the 2014 mid-terms. The group is not expected to play a role in the two 2013 gubernatorial races, deferring to the RGA, but is considering how to shape the next round of congressional elections. At the top of the agenda: influencing candidate selection in GOP primaries. 
  
 But before they turn completely to 2014, Crossroads is still diagnosing last month’s results. The group digested a series of 2012 memos mixed brutal analysis with some self-reassurance. In the first category, pollster Glen Bolger bluntly warned in top paragraph of his memo that the GOP is in danger of becoming a party that can only win in non-presidential years when the composition of the electorate doesn’t reflect the country. Pointing to Republican’s difficulties with Hispanics, Bolger, who is partners with Mitt Romney’s 2012 pollster, wrote: "the Republican Party is in danger of becoming the 'Win In Off Years Only Party' unless we make a full-throated improvement with Hispanic voters. And, we have to admit it is us, not them." 
  
 Yet even as they attempt to learn from what happened, Crossroads also is preparing to make clear to their donors that they weren’t blind to the difficulties of Romney’s winning the presidency. One of the internal memos prepared for the meeting detailed on a state-by-state basis the group’s final polling in each state and the actual results. Their surveys were closer to the outcome than Romney’s internal data. 
  
 Last week’s pow-wow was something of a prelude before Crossroads comes up with their final report on 2012, which is expected to take place after the first of the year. 
  
 * This post and its headline have been updated 
  
  ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re in a nationally televised debate for the presidency, at a time of tremendous economic hardship, trying to endear yourself to a socially conservative audience in Iowa. What do you do? What do you do? 
  
 Well, if you’re Mitt Romney, apparently the answer is high-stakes gambling. Romney actually challenged Rick Perry to a ten thousand dollar bet onstage. Really. It’s a shame, too, because Romney had just won the crowd over with his opposition to the Newt Gingrich Moonraker project we all just learned about. 
  
 In Romney’s defense, he didn’t really have another move, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry was pressing him on his inconsistent positions on the individual insurance mandate. “I’m listening,” Perry said. “I’m hearing you say all the right things. But I read your first book and it said in there that your mandate in Massachusetts, which should be the model for the country — I know it came out of the reprint of the book, but, you know, I’m just saying, you were for individual mandates, my friend.” 
  
 “You know what, you’ve raised that before, Rick. and you’re wrong,” a testy Romney replied. 
  
 It was true then, it’s true now…” Perry said. 
  
 “Rick, I’ll tell you what, 10,000 bucks, $10,000 bet,” Romney said, extending a hand. 
  
 Perry hesitated, left Romney hanging. “I’m not in the betting business.” 
  
 Romney continues to insist that he never posited his mandate as a national solution, but as readers of this site well know, that simply isn’t true. I’ll bet a fiddle of gold. 
  
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 Update: ABC’s Jake Tapper fact checks the bet and has reaction to it below: |||||
Output:
Front-runner Newt Gingrich took a few licks but stood his ground tonight at the GOP presidential debate in Iowa, Politico reports. After Romney described himself as a businessman—not a politician like Gingrich—Newt fired back: "Let's be candid. The only reason you didn't become a career politician is because you lost to Ted Kennedy in 1994." After the audience "ooohed," Romney returned fire: "Losing to Teddy Kennedy was probably the best thing I could have done for preparing me for the job I’m seeking," the New York Times reports. In other highlights: Gingrich repeated his position that Washington should let illegals stay in the US under certain strict conditions. "That's not amnesty," he said. Romney countered that Gingrich's plan "will then create another magnet that draws people into our country illegally"—but didn't say he would try to deport illegal immigrants. Gingrich defended his remark that Palestinians are an "invented people," and said it's time people admit that Israel is a nation under fire from "terrorists." Countered Romney: "You don't speak for Israel. If Bibi Netanyahu wants to say what you said, let him say it." Bachmann called Gingrich part of the problem and referred to him and Romney as "Newt Romney"—meaning their policies are basically the same. "If you want a difference, Michele Bachmann is the proven conservative," Bachmann said. "It's not Newt Romney." Rick Perry attacked Gingrich's character by saying that "if you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner." Gingrich has been married three times, and admitted to cheating on his second wife. Replied Newt: "It is a real issue. People have to look at the person to whom they are going to loan the presidency." Fact Check: Gingrich said he has never supported cap and trade to curb pollution, but he did favor it in 2007 on PBS' "Frontline." Romney and Michele Bachmann almost agreed on the payroll tax cut. Bachmann said she opposes extending the tax for another year, and Romney agreed, calling it a "little Band-Aid." But he also supported a one-year extension: "It's a temporary tax cut and it will help people in a very difficult time." Romney actually challenged Perry to a $10,000 bet, Mediaite reports. Perry accused Romney of supporting individual insurance mandates, and Romney denied it: "Rick, I’ll tell you what, 10,000 bucks, $10,000 bet," he said, and offered a hand. Perry retorted, “I’m not in the betting business." All the candidates except Romney talked about economic setbacks they had endured in life. Gingrich mentioned growing up "above a gas station" and referred to the struggles of his family business, Gingrich Productions. (He didn't mention the $500,000 line of credit he and his wife had at Tiffany's.) Click here for post-debate reactions on the winners and losers.