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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER.... A new Research 2000 poll conducted for Daily Kos asked respondents a rather straightforward question: “Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?” Since the president was born in the U.S., ideally, the results would be around 100%.
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
58 percent of GOP not sure/doubt Obama born in US — Shocker poll from Kos/Research2000 today. — A whopping 58 percent of Republicans either think Barack Obama wasn't born in the US (28 percent) or aren't sure (30 percent). A mere 42 percent think he was.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Poll: 28% of Republicans don't believe Obama was born in U.S. — A new Research 2000 poll, sponsored by the site DailyKos, finds broad traction among Republican voters for the belief that President Obama was not born in the United States. — The survey of American adults asked …
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Birthers are mostly Republican and Southern — Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 7/27-30. All adults. MoE 2% (No trend lines) — Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not? — Yes 77 — No 11 — Not sure 12
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Waxman gets deal on health bill — Liberal and conservative Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce panel struck a late-night deal Friday that will allow them to move a sweeping health care bill out of the committee after a two-week deadlock that put its fate in serious doubt.
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Liberal Dems have 57 votes against Blue Dog plan
Liberal Dems have 57 votes against Blue Dog plan
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Deadlines, Schmeadlines — No Breakthroughs, No Deals, No Health Care Bill
Deadlines, Schmeadlines — No Breakthroughs, No Deals, No Health Care Bill
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
In Beer Summit “Spoof” Milbank Suggests Hillary Drink “Mad Bitch” Beer — If I were on the board of directors of the Kaplan test prep company, and discovered that the people running a money-losing Kaplan subsidiary affiliate (better known as the Washington Post) had greenlighted a feature called …
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Peter Daou / ConsiderThisNews:
Washington Post's Milbank Says Hillary Clinton Should Drink “Mad Bitch” Beer — This is the kind of garbage that has permeated media coverage of Hillary Clinton for years. Relevant segment at about 2:35. (h/t Brian Beutler).
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Milbank jokes that Hillary Clinton should drink ‘mad bitch’ beer.
Milbank jokes that Hillary Clinton should drink ‘mad bitch’ beer.
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Charlottesville Daily Progress / Daily Progress:
Forged letters to congressman anger local groups — As U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello was considering how to vote on an important piece of climate change legislation in June, the freshman congressman's office received at least six letters from two Charlottesville-based minority organizations voicing opposition to the measure.
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Victor Zapanta / Think Progress:
NAACP-Forgery Group, Bonner & Associates, Has A Decades-Long History …
NAACP-Forgery Group, Bonner & Associates, Has A Decades-Long History …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Rudy: ‘Shut Up’ — Rudy Giuliani, who has returned as a leading Republican spokesman, condemned Obama's health care plan in an interview with Sean Hannity. — He also offered, in response to the president's hope that the Gates arrest would be a “teachable moment,” this: — “He's actually right.
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Josh Bivens / Economic Policy Institute:
More than 500 days of recession — The Commerce Department reported today that gross domestic product (GDP) contracted at a 1% annual rate in the second quarter of 2009, following a 6.4% decline in the previous quarter. GDP is the total market value of goods and services produced in the U.S. economy …
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Town halls gone wild — Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.
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Elizabeth Gates / Blogs and Stories:
What I Saw at the Beer Summit — Blogs and Stories — The Daily Beast's Elizabeth Gates joined her father, Skip, Sgt. Crowley, and the president to raise a beer and bury the hatchet. An inside report from the peace talks. — In a world in which the conversation on race has traditionally taken …
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Daniela Altimari / Hartford Courant:
Dodd Diagnosed With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer — U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. — Dodd is scheduled to undergo surgery during the Senate's August recess and said he expects to be back at work after a “brief recuperation” at home.
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Washington Post:
House Passes Bill to Prolong ‘Cash for Clunkers’ — White House Says Nearly Broke Program Will Continue; Bill Would Add $2 Billion — The House approved a bill Friday afternoon to provide $2 billion to continue the federal government's week-old “cash for clunkers” program …
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Eamon Javers / The Politico:
Franken feuds with T. Boone Pickens — Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tank John Kerry's presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pickens a warm welcome at their weekly policy lunch Thursday. — Or at least most of them did.
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Porn prosecution fuels debate — President Barack Obama's Justice Department has quietly agreed to move a pornography prosecution out of socially conservative Montana to more urbane New Jersey - fueling perceptions by some attorneys that the new administration is stepping back from the aggressive approach …
Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Controversy Surrounding Lou Dobbs Has Failed to Increase His Ratings — On the night of Monday, July 27, Bill O'Reilly welcomed Richard Cohen, the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center, onto The O'Reilly Factor, to talk about Mr. Cohen's repeated public criticisms of CNN anchor Lou Dobbs.
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CNN:
Do quick tweets sink ships? — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Rep. Mark Kirk, a Republican who represents the northern suburbs of Chicago and is running for Senate, also happens to be a Navy Reservist. While on service in the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon, he recently ‘tweeted,’ causing the Military to look into the situation.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Care Realities — At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.” The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program — but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, “wasn't having any of it.”
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Seniors Most Skeptical of Healthcare Reform — More seniors think reform law would be harmful, not beneficial, to them — PRINCETON, NJ — Seniors are the least likely of all age groups in the U.S. to say that healthcare reform will benefit their personal healthcare situation.
Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
U.S. briefs Israel on new Iran nuke sanctions — American officials briefed Israel this week on the administration's ideas for intensifying sanctions against Iran if it fails to respond to President Barack Obama's offer of dialogue. — U.S. National Security Advisor James Jones …
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