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New York Times:
Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated — Tea party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, tend to be Republican, white, male, and married, and their strong opposition to the Obama administration is more rooted in political ideology …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Sarah Palin paints the President as a foreigner and calls his policies: ‘Un-American’ at Boston Tea Party rally — The conservative movement will do everything they can to keep trying to paint Obama as a foreigner. The Birthers are still here as you'd expect because proof means nothing …
CBS News:
Tea Party Supporters: Who They Are and What They Believe — Posted by Brian Montopoli 185 comments - Share - - - Share - E-mail - Print - Font CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — They're white. They're older.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Teabag Nation — The NY Times and CBS just released a pretty comprehensive poll on the teabaggers. It probably won't surprise you much. — They are extremely negative and angry. And they really, really hate Barack Obama. — Here's the NY Times summary: … Way more likely.
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2012: Barack Obama 42%, Ron Paul 41%
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Eric Roper / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Tea Party rally cost taxpayers nearly $14k
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New York Times:
Obama Speech Signals a U.S. Shift on Middle East — WASHINGTON — It was just a phrase at the end of President Obama's news conference on Tuesday, but it was a stark reminder of a far-reaching shift in how the United States views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how aggressively it might push for a peace agreement.
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Ronald S. Lauder / World Jewish Congress:
Full Text of Letter from Ronald S. Lauder to President Obama — Dear President Obama: — I write today as a proud American and a proud Jew. — Jews around the world are concerned today. We are concerned about the nuclear ambitions of an Iranian regime that brags about its genocidal intentions against Israel.
Matt Raymond / loc.gov:
How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive — Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. — That's right. Every public tweet, ever …
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Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Palin Spends More De-Icing Planes Than For Candidates — Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) spent more money to de-ice her private jets than she did donating money to candidates during the first 3 months of the year, according to new filings made with the FEC. — The filings show Palin's political wing …
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Andrew Porter / Telegraph:
General Election 2010: Conservatives lead in 100 key seats, Telegraph poll shows — The Conservatives are on course for a convincing election victory after a new poll for The Daily Telegraph showed the party is leading Labour by 12 points in crucial marginal constituencies.
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Daniel Finkelstein / Times of London:
The single mother's manifesto — David Cameron says the ‘nasty party’ that castigated people like me has changed. I'm not buying it — J.K. Rowling — I've never voted Tory before, but . . ." Those much parodied posters, with their photogenic subjects and their trite captions, remind me irresistibly of glossy greetings cards.
Mark Lavie / Associated Press:
Israeli officials say Syria gives Hezbollah Scuds — JERUSALEM - Israeli defense officials said Wednesday they believe Hezbollah has Scud missiles that could hit all of Israel, a day after Israel's president accused Syria of supplying the Lebanese guerrillas with the weapons for the first time.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Obama slips, other Dems slide, too — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's national standing has slipped to a new low after his victory on the historic health care overhaul, even in the face of growing signs of economic revival, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll.
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Manhattan Institute:
UNDERFUNDED TEACHER PENSION PLANS: — It's Worse Than You Think — Josh Barro, Walter B. Wriston Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research — Stuart Buck, Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas — Executive Summary
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Jen DiMascio / The Politico:
Senate fight ahead for START — Of all President Barack Obama's nuclear arms reduction initiatives — including his world without nuclear weapons and a test ban treaty — negotiating and ratifying an updated Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia was seen as the easiest step.
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TMZ.com:
Larry King Files for Divorce #8 — TMZ has learned Larry King just filed for divorce from his wife Shawn Southwick — the 8th time King's pulled the plug on a marriage. — In the divorce papers, filed moments ago in L.A. County Superior Court, Larry blames the split on “irreconcilable differences.”
Washington Times:
Sink the Murtha — The Navy can do better than honoring this hack — The late Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, has achieved his highest undeserved honor. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has decided to name the Navy's newest San Antonio Class amphibious transport-dock LPD 26 the USS John P. Murtha.
David Crawford / Wall Street Journal:
H-P Executives Face Bribery Probes — German and Russian authorities are investigating whether Hewlett-Packard Co. executives paid millions of dollars in bribes to win a contract in Russia, according to people familiar with the matter. — German prosecutors are looking into the possibility …
Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Revs Up Fund-Raising Bid — For $30,400 a couple, Floridians will have a chance Thursday night to rub elbows with President Barack Obama at singer Gloria Estefan's 15,547-square-foot mansion on Miami Beach's Star Island. — Donors will give $35,200 a couple at Los Angeles' Natural History Museum …
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Dana Rubinstein / New York Observer:
Anthony Weiner Goes Viral — Congressman Anthony Weiner bounded into a DJ booth at a fashionable Lower East Side bar one recent Wednesday night, grabbed the microphone with his left hand and unleashed his inner Borscht Belt. — “Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing …
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Democrats defeat call for formal Eric Massa probe — House Democrats easily turned back another Republican effort to force a formal ethics committee investigation into how House leaders and their aides handled allegations of sexual harassment against then-Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.).
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Ezra Klein:
Andy Stern: The exit interview — Andy Stern is the president of SEIU, a service employees union with 2.2 million members. He led the breakaway unions that split from the AFL-CIO and formed Change to Win, and he's been a key political player during the Obama era, visiting the White House more than any other individual.
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
Terry Gross: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various journalists who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. This is from an exchange with Terry Gross …
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