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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
After Many Momentum Shifts, Michigan Is Too Close to Call — People sometimes apply the term “tossup” a bit too broadly, using it to refer to anything close enough that they don't want to render a prediction about it. — In Michigan, however, the term is appropriate.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney also said he voted in Dem primaries to influence the race — The Romney campaign has been denouncing Democratic efforts - and now those by Rick Santorum - to get Democrats to vote in Michigan's open primary. — Mitt Romney himself called it a “new low” in politics in a round of TV interviews.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney: I'm not willing ‘to light my hair on fire’ to win conservative votes
Mitt Romney: I'm not willing ‘to light my hair on fire’ to win conservative votes
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Momentum back toward Santorum in MI?
Momentum back toward Santorum in MI?
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama dings Mitt Romney on auto bailout
Obama dings Mitt Romney on auto bailout
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CNN, American Prospect and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Conservatives take dimmer view of Romney ahead of voting
Conservatives take dimmer view of Romney ahead of voting
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum on top in second straight Ohio poll
Santorum on top in second straight Ohio poll
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama hits Romney with withering mockery as he makes case for reelection — In a speech to the United Auto Workers just now, Obama defended his decision to bail out the auto industry, lacing into Mitt Romney with withering derision. But this speech was about more than the auto-bailout.
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White House / Detroit Free Press:
Transcript: Read Obama's speech today to the United Auto Workers Convention
Transcript: Read Obama's speech today to the United Auto Workers Convention
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RealClearPolitics Video Log, The Raw Story, Michelle Malkin, CNNMoney.com and Jay Bookman
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Suggests Romney Shoveling ‘A Load of You-Know-What’
President Obama Suggests Romney Shoveling ‘A Load of You-Know-What’
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Campaign 2012
Craig Bannister / CNSNews:
Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control, Student Tells Pelosi Hearing Touting Freebie Mandate — A Georgetown co-ed told Rep. Nancy Pelosi's hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex that they're going broke, so you and I should pay for their birth control.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Santorum regrets ‘throw up’ response to Kennedy speech — Rick Santorum regrets saying that he wanted to “throw up” in response to watching a video clip of President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech about the separation of church and state. — “I wish I had that particular line back,” …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Backs Away From JFK ‘Throw Up’ Remark: ‘I Wish I Had That Particular Line Back’ — Rick Santorum backed away from his claim that President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech about the separation of church and state makes him want to “throw up” during an appearance on the Laura Ingraham radio show this morning.
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Strange Bedfellows, The Political Carnival, Salon and The Raw Story
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Sorry, The Restaurant Receipt Left By That Nasty, Rich Banker Is A Photoshop Hoax — The restaurant receipt that a California banker purportedly used to denigrate a waitress—while also leaving her a one percent tip—was wildly “altered and exaggerated,” according to a spokesperson …
James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Why I am so rude to Warmists — Sharing a car back from the BBC Big Question debate in Cardiff on Sunday I had a tremendous bust-up with one of my fellow panelists which I think many of you would have enjoyed hugely. (Our driver could barely keep a straight face).
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Pirate's Cove and EU Referendum
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Possum Republicans — Politicians do what they must to get re-elected. So it's not unexpected that Republican senators like Richard Lugar and Orrin Hatch would swing sharply to the right to fend off primary challengers. — As Jonathan Weisman reported in The Times on Sunday …
Elizabeth Lopatto / Bloomberg:
Wealthy More Likely to Lie, Cheat: Researchers — Are society's most noble actors found within society's nobility? — That question spurred Paul Piff, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, to explore whether higher social class is linked to higher ideals, he said in a telephone interview.
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Rachel Dissell / Plain Dealer:
Parents of teen accused of shootings faced charges — CHARDON, Ohio — It appears that T.J. Lane had violence in his life from the beginning. — Geauga County court records show the father of the teen who authorities say shot five students at Chardon High School on Monday had been arrested …
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ABCNEWS:
What Happens if Rick Santorum Wins Michigan? — That's the question I asked ABC News contributor Matt Dowd ahead of tonight's primary. Mitt Romney has been bouncing up and down in the polls of his home state, and is now neck and neck with Rick Santorum. — “If Rick Santorum wins tonight it's …
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Patterico's Pontifications and Booman Tribune
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Will Mitt Go Quietly? — I've addressed this a few times. But it's probably worth doing again. — This morning I got this email from TPM Reader SL ... SL's question, I think, all but answers itself. And this is basically why the whole White Knight fantasy is so preposterous. Go quietly.
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American Prospect and No More Mister Nice Blog
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
What's the Matter With ‘Nebraska’? — A frivolous essay underscores the left's serious prejudices. — This column has recently become skeptical of the view—nearly universal on the liberal left but common as well among conservative elites—that Rick Santorum is “unelectable” …
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Rod Dreher
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Guantanamo detainees get new $750G soccer field — At a time of record deficits, a new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay is just getting the finishing touches — at a cost of $750,000 to taxpayers. — The project was the highlight of a tour Tuesday of the detention camp …
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Atlas Shrugs, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and Wake up America
Portland Press-Herald:
Sen. Snowe: Won't seek re-election — Citing bitter and unbreakbale partisanship in Congress, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, announced this afternoon that she has decided not to run for re-election after 33 years in Congress. — In a statement issued by her campaign, Snowe …
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Michelle Malkin and Poliglot
Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — President Obama Delivers Barnburner To UAW, Dings Romney And Santorum — Mitt Romney won't “light his hair on fire” just to excite the conservative base, he admitted to an audience Tuesday. President Obama offered him a helpful political clinic the same day …
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ABCNEWS, Washington Post, Fox News, Swampland, Verum Serum and The Political Carnival
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Unbearable Gleickness of Being: An Omnibus Climate Update — The Gleickgate hits just keep coming. (Or is it Fakegate, as Heartland is calling it, or Gleick-Out, as I've called it? Doesn't matter.) First, Gleick has taken a leave of absence from his post as president of the Pacific Institute …
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Watts Up With That? and National Review
Wall Street Journal:
For the Costliest Homes, Foreclosure Comes Slowly — Michael Underwood hasn't made a full mortgage payment on his four-bedroom house in San Francisco's East Bay area since early 2008. But he has yet to be evicted from the home, which includes a lagoon-style pool carved into the property's natural sandstone.
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Felix Salmon, msnbc.com, Gawker and National Review
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
New Hampshire May Revoke Its Gay Marriage Law — As same-sex marriage supporters celebrate victories in Washington and Maryland this month, they are keeping a wary eye on New Hampshire, where lawmakers may soon vote to repeal the state's two-year-old law allowing gay couples to wed.
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ThinkProgress, Law Blog, Gay Politics and Balloon Juice
Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously — The corporate research firm has branded itself as a CIA-like “global intelligence” firm, but only Julian Assange and some over-paying clients are fooled. — On June 2, 2009, Anya Alfano of Stratfor, which describes itself as a private …
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Parties clash over scope of Blunt amendment — Senate Democrats said Tuesday that up to 20 million women could lose access to healthcare services under an amendment from Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), but Republicans argue that the proposal would change very little about the healthcare system.
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New York Times:
Liu's Campaign Treasurer Arrested on Fraud Charges — The campaign treasurer for City Comptroller John C. Liu was arrested on Tuesday as a part of a widening investigation into Mr. Liu's fund-raising practices. — The treasurer, Jia Hou, faces charges of fraud and obstruction of justice …