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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Poll: Obama's approval rating sinks to new low — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — (CBS News) President Obama's approval rating has hit the lowest level ever in CBS News polling, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times survey.
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New York Times:
Obama Approval Rating Shows Serious Slip in New Poll — Despite improving job growth and an extended Republican primary fight dividing his would-be opponents, President Obama is heading into the general election season on treacherous political ground, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Power Line, The New Republic and Politico
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Obama Fares Worse Among Women after Month-Long Contraception Mandate Battle — Washington Post poll contradicts Washington Post narrative about female voters. — How's the great contraception mandate battle of 2012 playing out? If you read the Washington Post's news coverage …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Republicans' war on the TelePrompter — and its limits — From the start of the 2012 presidential race, the most consistent — and popular — criticism of President Obama by the GOP candidates has not been on the economy, health care or foreign policy. It's been on the incumbent's use of a TelePrompter.
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Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
Poll shows American support for US involvement in Afghanistan tanking — Nearly 60 percent of all Americans think the war in Afghanistan is no longer worth fighting, with more than 50 percent saying U.S. troops should withdraw even if Afghan forces are not ready to fend for themselves.
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Says America Should Apologize for Afghanistan Shooting
Rick Santorum Says America Should Apologize for Afghanistan Shooting
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Washington Post:
Gas prices sink Obama's ratings on economy, bring parity to race for White House
Gas prices sink Obama's ratings on economy, bring parity to race for White House
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Specter says Obama ditched him after he helped pass health law — Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform.
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Meredith / Senate Democrats:
Cloture filed on 17 Judicial nominations — Today Senator Reid filed cloture on the following 17 Judicial nominations. Under the rule, the first vote would occur 1 hour after the Senate convenes on Wednesday, March 14. — Cal.#408, Gina Marie Groh, of West Virginia; Cal.#441, David Nuffer, of Utah;
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: Republicans clogging judicial confirmation process to embarrass Obama — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) charged Senate Republicans on Monday of gumming up the Senate's judicial confirmation process in order to embarrass President Obama, and said he plans to file cloture …
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Concedes: He Can't Win The Nomination Outright — Winning by losing? Strategy memo is less a “path to victory” as it is a path to a contested convention. — Santorum talks with supporters during a stop at Sweet Peppers Deli, Sunday, March 11, 2012, in Tupelo, Miss. — (AP / Eric Gay)
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Michael Steele: “I Wanted a Brokered Convention”
Michael Steele: “I Wanted a Brokered Convention”
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Mitt Romney wishes Mobile 'good mornin"
Mitt Romney wishes Mobile 'good mornin"
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh losing more advertisers? — Think Progress gets its hands on an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks that lists nearly 100 national companies that have asked that their advertisements not be played on the Rush Limbaugh show — companies that have not been publicly named until now.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh — ThinkProgress has obtained an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks listing 96 national companies that have “specifically asked” their advertisments not be played during the Rush Limbaugh Show. Premiere is the distributor of Limbaugh's program.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Syndicator Suspends National Ads For Two Weeks
BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Syndicator Suspends National Ads For Two Weeks
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Taylor Marsh, Radio-Info.com and The Political Carnival
Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Wisconsin election officials have now closed in on a proposed date for holding the the state's wave of recalls: June 5, an extension of one week. — The Government Accountability Board (GAB), the non-partisan agency that oversees elections in the state, met Monday to approve recalls against four Republican state senators.
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Justice Department bars Texas voter ID law
Tim Carmody / Wired:
The Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW — It sounds like something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia. But it's absolutely real — and a completely problematic treatment of a problem that otherwise probably wouldn't be mentioned in any of the panels at South by Southwest Interactive.
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Stearns On Obama Birth's Certificate: ‘The Question Is, Is It Legitimate?’ — New video of a February town hall shows Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) pandering to birthers and raising questions about the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate. — When Stearns met with constituents …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Longtime GOP lawmaker questions legitimacy of Obama birth certificate
Longtime GOP lawmaker questions legitimacy of Obama birth certificate
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Campaign Responds To Dutch Euthanasia Outrage — Rick Santorum has drawn fire for controversial statements about assisted suicide in the Netherlands. In an impromptu interview with Dutch television station RTL4, Santorum press secretary Alice Stewart offered no explanation …
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Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
In his heart, Rick Santorum knows that Dutch people are forcibly euthanized
In his heart, Rick Santorum knows that Dutch people are forcibly euthanized
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Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — The Many Misleading Claims In Mitt's Monday Medicare Memo — As part of an effort to reverse the public's perception of the parties' positions on Medicare, Mitt Romney's campaign is appropriating a common Democratic attack and using it against President Obama.
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CNN:
Romney to forgo Medicare
Romney to forgo Medicare
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James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Former McCain Strategist Steve Schmidt On Game Change: Notion Of Palin Being President Frightens Me — Former McCain senior campaign strategist Steve Schmidt sat down with MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday morning and spoke candidly about his role in the 2008 presidential campaign, saying HBO's Game Change was largely true.
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Hot Air, Crooks and Liars, Politico and Democracy in America
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Obama Admin Finalizes Rules: $1 Abortions in ObamaCare — It's official. The concern pro-life organizations had about the ObamaCare legislation funding abortions has been confirmed, as the Obama administration has issued the final rules on abortion funding governing the controversial health care law.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Welfare queens and college sluts — CNN, you really need to examine your hiring policies. Your “analyst” Dana Loesch wrote this piece of drivel on her site yesterday: … I assume that CNN knows that Fluke wasn't testifying about herself and they know that she wasn't talking about her own sex life …
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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Republican Compares Women to Cows, Pigs, And Chickens — Republican Georgia State Representative Terry England — A speech from a Georgia Republican state representative surfaced last week in which he compared women seeking abortions of stillborn fetuses to cows and pigs.
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Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
Coffee Is an Essential Benefit Too — Here are some other health-care mandates that government should impose on employers. — Dear President Obama, — Can you believe the nerve of employers? Many of them still seem to think that they should be allowed to determine the benefits they offer.
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