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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Support Up; Widens Advantage in 2012 Preferences — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans' support for Mitt Romney as their party's 2012 presidential nominee has increased significantly to 24%, compared with 17% in late May. As a result, Romney has widened his advantage over Sarah Palin …
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama Seeks to Win Back Wall St. Cash — WASHINGTON — A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House's Blue Room. — The guests were asked for their thoughts on how to speed …
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Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
GOP Debate: What to Watch for in New Hampshire — The stage is set for the first major Republican presidential debate of the 2012 season tonight in Manchester, N.H. — and candidates are starting to assume roles. Here is a look at who will be on the stage, who won't, and what to expect.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Will T-Paw's Radical Tax Plan Become The GOP Gold Standard?
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney Polls Pretty Well
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Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN Republican debate: 5 things that could shape the 2012 race
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RNC chair struggles to defend double standard — NBC's “Meet the Press” hosted a discussion between the two major party chairs — the DNC's Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the RNC's Reince Priebus — and right off the bat, host David Gregory wanted to talk at length about Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).
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Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
Why Anthony Weiner Shouldn't Quit — THE DAILY BEAST ON: — The congressman's public flogging doesn't fit the crime, and is emblematic of our kick-'em-when-they're-down culture. Peter Beinart on why we need a new rulebook for political sex scandals. — Excuse me for asking, but why exactly should Anthony Weiner resign?
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Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
White House calls Weiner's sex scandal a “distraction”
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Cantor: Dems should strip Weiner of committee posts
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The Politico:
Democrats worry Anthony Weiner will hurt agenda
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New York Post:
New Weiner photos taken in House gym could be an ethics breach
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City Room:
In Reversal, 3 Democratic Senators Will Back Gay Marriage — ALBANY — Three wavering Democratic lawmakers in the State Senate have agreed to support legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in New York, several people with knowledge of the negotiations said on Monday, marking a potential turning point for the long-debated measure.
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New York Post:
GOP swings both ways on gay-marriage bill — Seven or more Senate Republicans have signaled Gov. Cuomo that they're ready to legalize same-sex marriage, more than enough to put the controversial and historic measure over the top this week, The Post has learned.
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Gov. Perry: Economic Crisis Is Part of God's Plan To Return Us To Biblical Principles — For the past week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has been roundly criticized by religious and LGBT groups alike for inviting other governors to join him at an anti-gay prayer event hosted by stridently bigoted American Family Association.
Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say — U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war. — Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills, pictured last month, has held hearings on waste and fraud in Iraq.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds — WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention.
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Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
How to avoid a lost decade — Even with the massive 2008-09 policy effort that prevented financial collapse and depression, the United States is now halfway to a lost economic decade. From the first quarter of 2006 to the first quarter of 2011, the U.S. economy's growth rate averaged less …
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How to avoid a lost decade
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John Garvey / Wall Street Journal:
Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms — Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up. — My wife and I have sent five children to college and our youngest just graduated. Like many parents, we encouraged them to study hard and spend time in a country where people don't speak English.
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Alison Gendar / NY Daily News:
Rep. Anthony Weiner's Nissan Pathfinder is unregistered, DMV says — Lying about sexting apparently isn't Rep. Anthony Weiner's only gray area. — When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was clear …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Medicare Saves Money — Every once in a while a politician comes up with an idea that's so bad, so wrongheaded, that you're almost grateful. For really bad ideas can help illustrate the extent to which policy discourse has gone off the rails. — And so it was with Senator Joseph Lieberman's proposal …
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Neda Semnani / Roll Call:
Heard on the Hill: West Intern Fired Over Retweet — It's not Monday without a Member of Congress making a very public faux pas the week before ... and on the social networking site Twitter, no less. (Members, never stop tweeting. Politics and Twitter paint the rest of our lives with a bit of Technicolor.)
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Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times:
British fear ‘American-style’ healthcare system — As leaders debate ways to reform healthcare, politicians repeatedly tell a worried public that Britain will not turn the National Health Service into an ‘American-style’ private system. — British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama pushes to extend payroll tax cut — DURHAM, N.C. - President Barack Obama signaled Monday that a deficit-cutting package should include an extension of the one-year payroll tax cut for workers, saying any effort to slash government spending must be coupled with targeted investments.
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Chronicle of Higher Education:
How educated are state legislators? — The Chronicle has looked at where each of the 7,000-plus state legislators in America went to college - or whether they went at all. In doing so, we got a glimpse of how the citizens who hold these seats reflect the average American experience.
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Justin Elliott / Salon:
Neocon flak: Weiner may have converted to Islam — A neoconservative public relations operative argues the Jewish congressman may have converted to Islam — We thought everything that could be said about Anthony Weiner's lewd photo scandal had been said.
The Daily Caller:
After running pizza chain, Cain says he can make foreign policy decisions — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Is running a pizza chain similar to being commander in chief of the armed forces? — Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza running for president, said he's suited …
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Tim Pawlenty Attempts To Rebut Allegations Of Dullness With Lame Joke, Bad Timing — On paper, Tim Pawlenty seems like a formidable political candidate. But he's been dogged since the beginning of the campaign with alleged dullness. Asked about this yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace …
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