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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Perry Zooms to Front of Pack for 2012 GOP Nomination — Leads Romney by 29% to 17% — PRINCETON, NJ — Shortly after announcing his official candidacy, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has emerged as rank-and-file Republicans' current favorite for their party's 2012 presidential nomination.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Perry Surges in Polls, Testing Romney's Strategy — Primary polls can be erratic, so the rule is not to get too worked up about any one set of numbers. But now there have been five surveys conducted since Rick Perry announced his presidential campaign — one each from Gallup …
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Jason McLure / Reuters:
Humans may not be main climate change source: Romney
Humans may not be main climate change source: Romney
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Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Poll Shows Rick Perry Surging Ahead Of GOP 2012 Pack
Poll Shows Rick Perry Surging Ahead Of GOP 2012 Pack
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Dan Berman / The Politico:
Romney tweaks climate stance
Romney tweaks climate stance
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb Syria in '07 — WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says in a new memoir that he urged President George W. Bush to bomb a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site in June 2007. But, he wrote, Mr. Bush opted for a diplomatic approach after other advisers …
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Scott Stump / msnbc.com:
Cheney: My book will have ‘heads exploding’ in D.C.
Cheney: My book will have ‘heads exploding’ in D.C.
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Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO — (Reuters) - Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage. — Apple shares dived as much as 7 percent …
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Katie Cotton / Apple:
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rick Perry/Barack Obama comparison in Twitter picture — David Limbaugh, the conservative author and brother of Rush, tweets an image you're likely to see again. — A spokesman for Rick Perry didn't respond to a request for comment on the photo, the origin of which is unknown.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama team to Texas Democrats: It's time to start attacking Rick Perry
Obama team to Texas Democrats: It's time to start attacking Rick Perry
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New York Times:
U.S. May Back Refinance Plan for Mortgages — The Obama administration is considering further actions to strengthen the housing market, but the bar is high: plans must help a broad swath of homeowners, stimulate the economy and cost next to nothing. — One proposal would allow millions …
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Wall Street Journal:
Expect a Third-Party Candidate in 2012 — Ross Perot in 1992 and John Anderson in 1980 garnered exceptionally high levels of support. — The United States is in the midst of what we would both call a prerevolutionary moment, and there is widespread support for fundamental change in the system.
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Telegraph:
Libya: SAS leads hunt for Gaddafi — British special forces are on the ground in Libya helping to spearhead the hunt for Col Muammar Gaddafi, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. — Jomana Karadsheh and Matthew Chance from CNN are evacuated by the International Red Cross from the Rixos hotel in Tripoli
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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
AP-GfK poll: Views on economy, Obama role sour — WASHINGTON - Americans' views on the economy have dimmed this summer. But so far, the growing pessimism doesn't seem to be taking a toll on President Barack Obama's re-election prospects. — More people now believe the country is headed …
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Tea Partier Tells Rep. Lujan, Life-Long American, To ‘Get Out Of Politics And Make Room For An American’ — The Tea Party continues to claim that racism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia are not driving forces in its movement, but the actions of its members continue to belie those claims.
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Chuck Slothower / Farmington Daily Times:
Face time: Tea Party protesters greet Lujan
Face time: Tea Party protesters greet Lujan
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Argus Leader:
Ex-Senate leader: Law is here to stay — Repeal unlikely, Frist tells Avera crowd — The health care reform law will survive even if the Supreme Court declares the individual mandate unconstitutional, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Wednesday in Sioux Falls. — “It's going to survive.
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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Slate lays off four, including Jack Shafer — In the occasionally prickly world of media reporting, it's hard to find anyone who does not love, respect and, yes, slightly fear Jack Shafer. — So widespread is the love that American Journalism Review published a valentine to him earlier today …
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Germany fires cannon shot across Europe's bows — German President Christian Wulff has accused the European Central Bank of violating its treaty mandate with the mass purchase of southern European bonds. — There is widespread concerns in Germany that ECB intervention in the Italian …
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BBC:
France introduces new tax on high incomes — Liliane Bettencourt was among those offering up some of her wealth — The French government is to impose an extra tax of 3% on annual income above 500,000 euros (£440,000; $721,000). — It is part of a package of measures to try to cut …
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msnbc.com:
Gadhafi's ‘darling’: Condoleezza Rice photos found … In the ruins of Gadhafi's lair, rebels find album filled with photos of his ‘darling’ Condoleezza Rice — The ransacking of Moammar Gadhafi's compound is turning up some bizarre loot. Following on from the Libyan leader's eccentric fashion accessories …
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Despite my hopes, Sen. Marco Rubio will not run for president in 2012. But that doesn't mean he won't soon be within a heartbeat of the presidency. As the New Yorker's Ryan Liza asked on Twitter: “Is it time to rename GOP primaries 'the contest to become Marco Rubio's running mate'?”
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Kate O'Hare / Top of the Ticket:
Marco Rubio to the rescue! Freshman senator saves a falling Nancy Reagan
Marco Rubio to the rescue! Freshman senator saves a falling Nancy Reagan
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Norman Rockwell painting sends rare White House message on race — President Barack Obama has taken a decidedly low-key approach to racial issues since he became America's first black president two years ago. But in a hallway outside the Oval Office he has placed a head-turning painting depicting …
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Rolling Stone:
Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal — A power play is underway in the foreclosure arena, according to the New York Times. — On the one side is Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, who is conducting his own investigation into the era of securitizations …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
What Happened to Howard Dean, Anti-War Champion? — Now that his party is in power, the former DNC chair is praising a war that transgresses against values he once touted — Although he spent 12 years as governor of Vermont, Howard Dean gained national attention during George W. Bush's …
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith — If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows?
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