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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Debate Swings Door Open for Perry, Closed for Palin — Most people have better things to do than to watch a presidential debate eight months in advance of the Iowa caucuses. So when considering a debate like the one that took place among Republican candidates in New Hampshire tonight, it's important to be mindful of the following:
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
New Hampshire Republican debate: Winners and losers — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answers a question as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, left, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, listen during the first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, June 13, 2011.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Michele Bachmann steals the show at GOP debate — “Assume the position!” CNN's John King ordered the candidates as they approached their lecterns just before airtime for Monday night's debate. — The Republican presidential contenders did as the moderator told them.
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The Politico:
Pawlenty beats hasty N.H. retreat — GOFFSTOWN, N.H. - Tim Pawlenty's puzzling decision at Monday's debate to abandon a new line of attack on Mitt Romney's healthcare record is prompting fresh doubts among members of his own party about his readiness to confront the GOP frontrunner.
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — GOP debate winners: Romney, Bachmann and Rick Perry
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — GOP debate winners: Romney, Bachmann and Rick Perry
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Commentary Magazine, Datechguy's Blog, FrumForum, National Review, Ross Douthat and Pundit & Pundette
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP DEBATE: Bachmann grabs spotlight with filing announcement
GOP DEBATE: Bachmann grabs spotlight with filing announcement
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ABCNEWS, CNN, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Politico, The Atlantic Online, Taylor Marsh, Guardian, The Lonely Conservative, The Note, Shakesville, FrumForum and The Reaction
New York Times:
7 in G.O.P., Civil to Each Other, Hit at Obama Instead
7 in G.O.P., Civil to Each Other, Hit at Obama Instead
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Washington Post, Weigel, msnbc.com, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, The Note, Taegan Goddard's … and TPMDC
James A. Barnes / NationalJournal.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Political Insiders Give Debate Nod to Romney, Bachmann
EXCLUSIVE: Political Insiders Give Debate Nod to Romney, Bachmann
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The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
Obama: My family would be fine with just 1 term — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says his wife and daughters aren't “invested” in him being president and would have been fine had he decided against running for re-election. But he says they believe in what he's doing for the country.
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The Politico:
FLOTUS tells of Obama's worry — 'I see the sadness and worry that's creasing his face,' Michelle Obama said of her husband. — AP Photo — First lady Michelle Obama on Monday told a fundraiser in Southern California of the toll the presidency has taken on her husband Barack Obama.
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National Review, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama: My family is ‘fine’ with one term — As his reelection campaign ramps up, President Barack Obama says his family is “not invested” in a second term in the White House. — “Michelle and the kids are wonderful in that if I said, 'You know, guys, I want to do something different …
msnbc.com:
Obama: ‘I would resign’ in Weiner's situation — President talks scandal, debt ceiling in an exclusive interview with TODAY's Ann Curry — Below: — In an exclusive interview with TODAY's Ann Curry that will air on Tuesday's show, President Barack Obama said that if he were Democratic …
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The Note:
The Note: Obama Remains The Bogeyman As GOP Candidates Pull Punches — For Now
The Note: Obama Remains The Bogeyman As GOP Candidates Pull Punches — For Now
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The Politico and The Daily Caller
Joshua Miller / Roll Call:
Southern Seats Line Road to Majority
Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Taxpayers pay Weiner for “sex-rehab” vacation?
Taxpayers pay Weiner for “sex-rehab” vacation?
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USA Today
Washington Post:
‘Paula Brooks,’ editor of ‘Lez Get Real,’ also a man — Just one day after the author behind a popular Syrian lesbian blog admitted to being a married, American man named Tom MacMaster, the editor of the lesbian news site Lez Get Real, with the tagline “A Gay Girl's View on the World,” acknowledged that he is also a man.
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Mark Steyn / National Review:
Is Every Lesbian Blogger a Middle-Aged Man? — We're one lesbian away from a bona fide Fleet Street “trend”. Further to yesterday's post, a lesbian blogger who helped unmask the Syrian lesbian blogger as a middle-aged American male has herself been revealed to be a middle-aged American male:
David Brooks / New York Times:
Pundit Under Protest — I'll be writing a lot about the presidential election over the next 16 months, but at the outset I would just like to remark that I'm opining on this whole campaign under protest. I'm registering a protest because for someone of my Hamiltonian/National Greatness perspective …
CNNMoney.com:
Wingnut debt ceiling demands — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A lot of politicians are weighing in with demands before they'll support raising the debt ceiling. Most of their conditions are related to debt, such as put in place a debt reduction plan or cut spending.
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Michelle Malkin, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and NewsBusters.org blogs
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama fundraiser underwhelms — The empty seats at President Obama's fundraiser in Miami, Fl. were hard to miss. — MIAMI, Fla. — A low-dollar fundraiser here Monday felt like a throwback to the 2008 campaign. — There was the same old soundtrack - including “City of Blinding Lights” …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In 5-4 Vote, Supreme Court Limits Securities Fraud Suits — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a mutual fund's investment adviser may not be sued for securities fraud over misstatements in fund prospectuses. — The 5-to-4 decision split along ideological lines.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words
Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words
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ABCNEWS:
Newt Gingrich Charity Paid Cash To Gingrich For-Profit Business — A non-profit charity founded by Newt Gingrich to promote freedom, faith and free enterprise also served as another avenue to promote Gingrich's political views, and came dangerously close, some experts say …
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National Review
The Hill:
OVERNIGHT ENERGY: High noon for ethanol — Tuesday's Big Story: The Senate is slated to vote on Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) plan to eliminate a major ethanol industry tax break and the ethanol import tariff. — Ethanol backers are battling the amendment and seeking to pull support from Coburn.
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Green, The Washington Independent and The Hill
Ron Klain / Bloomberg:
About Ron Klain — Ron Klain is a senior executive with a private investment firm in Washington. From 2009 to 2011, he was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and a senior adviser to President Barack Obama on the Recovery Act, judicial selection, and other policy matters.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Obama stresses ‘need to accelerate the recovery’ — President Obama was in North Carolina yesterday, touring a fast-growing manufacturer of clean energy lighting, and convening a meeting of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Of particular interest, though, were the president's comments …
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The New Republic, The Moderate Voice and The Politico
CNN:
CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL — Republican Debate — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the first Republican presidential debate in this first-in-the-nation primary state.
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Top of the Ticket, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, The Mahablog and americanthinker.com
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
Bankruptcy Court: DOMA Unconstitutionally Limits Same-Sex Married Couples From Joint Bankruptcy Filing — Today, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, released an opinion finding Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional …
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Ben Smith's Blog, ThinkProgress, DownWithTyranny! and Prop 8 Trial Tracker
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking the GOP debate in New Hampshire — That was some collection of facts and statistics during the GOP debate in New Hampshire on Monday night that aired on CNN. — We're going to take an instant stab at some of them, and then perhaps come back later this week with a more extended look at other assertions.
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