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January 10, 2012 | | POLLS Jon Huntsman may be headed toward a second-place finish in New Hampshire Tuesday night, but he’s getting beat in South Carolina—by fake candidates. According to a new poll by Public Policy Polling, comedian Stephen Colbert is leading Huntsman among Carolina voters 5 percent to 4 percent. Colbert ran a phony presidential campaign in 2008, and offered to sponsor the South Carolina GOP primary if his name was printed on the ballot and a referendum on campaign finance was included. ON THE TRAIL On a tear in New Hampshire ahead of tonight’s vote, the plummeting candidate started cutting Romney some slack—and then turned around and bashed him for the same remark. The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove reports. HELPING HAND Can’t we all just get along? The U.S. Coast Guard saved six Iranian sailors from a flooded vessel in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, the second time it has rescued Iranians at sea in the past week. Ahmadinejad’s nation has been fuming about the presence of American ships in the Gulf, showing off with blustery naval exercises, but today’s rescue comes only a few days after an American mission that saved 13 Iranians from a pirated fishing boat in the same area. Iran gave thanks for that mission, calling it a “humanitarian act,” but has not commented on the latest one. The U.S. is currently dialing up sanctions on the Middle Eastern country over its burgeoning nuclear program. DEADLY At least 29 people were killed and another 44 people were wounded Tuesday in a bombing in northwest Pakistan, in the region used as a supply route for NATO forces into Afghanistan. No one has taken responsibility for the explosion yet, which took place near a fuel station in the Jamrud area of the Khyber tribal region. The Khyber region is a stronghold for Taliban in Pakistan and al Qaeda affiliates, groups that have been responsible for 4,700 deaths in the region since July 2007. The deadly bombing came one day after Pakistani authorities recovered the bodies of 10 soldiers in an exchange for bodies of Taliban soldiers killed in a clash two weeks ago. PERSONAL Your Google searches are about to get a whole lot more personal. Google rolled out personalized search-engine results Tuesday, which incorporate information from your connections—and private information—to customize what shows up in searches. Google Fellow Amit Singhal said Google will now search your “world” rather than just the Web. The new look is one more attempt by Google to compete with Facebook, with 800 million users is one the most popular websites. But the change is a radical departure for Google, which is looking to combine its dominant search engine with its fledgling social network, Google +. | | 
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