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Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
Ted Nugent Stands By Obama Remarks, Compares Himself To ‘Black Jew At A Nazi-Klan Rally’ (AUDIO) … FOLLOW: — Video, Ted Nugent, Ted Nugent Obama, Dana Loesch, Dana Loesch Ted Nugent, Nugent, Nugent Obama, Obama Nugent, Ted Nugent Dana Loesch, Ted Nugent Nancy Pelosi, Ted Nugent Obama Comments …
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CNN:
Romney cites ‘vast left wing conspiracy’ — (CNN) - Speaking to a right wing radio host Tuesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney repurposed a phrase from Hillary Clinton, citing a “vast left wing conspiracy” brewing in the media and liberal advocacy organizations to derail his campaign.
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Crooks and Liars, Suburban Guerrilla, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog and Politico
Maggie Habermanand Emily Schultheis / Politico:
The year of the ‘surrogate’ — Hilary Rosen. Bill Maher.
The year of the ‘surrogate’ — Hilary Rosen. Bill Maher.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Romney says ‘vast left wing conspiracy’ in media is attacking him
Romney says ‘vast left wing conspiracy’ in media is attacking him
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CNN and The Other McCain
Amie Parnes / Ballot Box:
Obama flips, re-labels his probable foe
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney up big, Clinton and Christie have early 2016 leads
Romney up big, Clinton and Christie have early 2016 leads
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Salon, Politico, Weasel Zippers, Blue Virginia and ABCNEWS
Josh Glasstetter / rightwingwatch.org:
Nugent Compared Obama and Democrats to a Coyote that Needs to Be Shot
Nugent Compared Obama and Democrats to a Coyote that Needs to Be Shot
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Osborne Ink, Gawker, msnbc.com, No More Mister Nice Blog, US Politics, Joe. My. God., Firedoglake, Mediaite, Crooks and Liars, The Maddow Blog and The Raw Story
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Hey, if we're going to talk about how presidential candidates treated dogs decades ago, let's talk about how presidential candidates treated dogs decades ago. — Can you name the author of this quote? … Give up? That's Barack Obama, writing about his childhood with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro …
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Ed Driscoll, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Popehat, Hot Air and Business Insider
Alex Sundby / CBS News:
Obama, Romney in dead heat among registered voters, CBS News/New York Times poll finds — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — Mitt Romney has closed the gap with President Obama among registered voters …
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Politico, GOP 12, Hot Air and Ballot Box
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Dalia Sussman / The Caucus:
New Poll: Romney and Obama Are in a Tight Contest — Mitt Romney has solidified support within his party for the presidential nomination after Rick Santorum's exit from the race, but is locked in a tight race with President Obama as attention turns to the general election phase of the campaign …
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Jammie Wearing Fools
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Obama easily beating Romney among U.S. women: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Obama easily beating Romney among U.S. women: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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The Political Carnival
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
One for the Country — I had to catch a train in Washington last week. The paved street in the traffic circle around Union Station was in such poor condition that I felt as though I was on a roller coaster. I traveled on the Amtrak Acela, our sorry excuse for a fast train …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Atrios / Eschaton:
THE ONE TRUE WANKER OF THE DECADE
THE ONE TRUE WANKER OF THE DECADE
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The Impolitic, Hullabaloo, The Agonist, Brad DeLong, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Guardian
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Kelly wins GOP primary in contest for former Rep. Giffords's seat — Jesse Kelly won a special primary election in Arizona on Tuesday, securing the Republican nomination to replace former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). — Kelly, an Iraq War veteran and project manager …
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Rebekah L. Sanders / Arizona Republic:
Kelly to face Barber for Giffords' seat — Jesse Kelly won the Republican primary Tuesday and will face Democrat Ron Barber in a special election to fill the remaining months of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' term in Congress, according to unofficial results.
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David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers — An American soldier says he released the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in leadership and discipline. The Army has started a criminal investigation.
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
Michelle Obama: ‘This president has brought us out of the dark and into the light’ — First lady Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail in Nashville on Tuesday and told a packed crowd in a downtown office building that the campaign has an “amazing story to tell.”
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Pirate's Cove, Power Line and Weasel Zippers
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Michelle Obama: ‘This President Has Brought Us Out of the Dark and Into the Light’
Michelle Obama: ‘This President Has Brought Us Out of the Dark and Into the Light’
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Washington Examiner, Scared Monkeys, Taylor Marsh and NPR
Investor's Business Daily:
IRS Might Have Stalinist Powers Under New Law — Liberty: The Republican House of Representatives may soon follow the Democratic Senate and give the IRS the power to confiscate your passport on mere suspicion of owing taxes. There's no place like home, comrade.
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Questions and Observations
Tennessean.com:
'Don't Say Gay' bill advances in the House — Tennessee's elementary and middle school teachers could face more pressure not to talk about homosexuality with their students next year after the so-called Don't Say Gay bill cleared a House education committee Tuesday.
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ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay and Human Rights Campaign
Andy Baio / Wired:
Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs — I don't watch sports, but every four years, I lose myself in the horse race of the U.S. presidential elections. That competition kicked off in earnest Monday, as Gallup started its daily tracking polls for the general election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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Little Green Footballs and Doug Ross
John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
VAN JONES: OBAMA ‘FORCED’ TO SIT WITH ‘RACIST’ COP AT BEER SUMMIT — In an April 3rd appearance on the left-wing Democracy Now TV show, Van Jones has offered his own behind-the-scenes take on an incident that made race a political issue three years before the Trayvon Martin case.
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The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Daily Mail:
Revealed; Official fears from U.S. and UK over President Obama's ‘anti-American’ and ‘anti-white’ father — In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough. — Last year he even had to publish his birth certificate to silence doubters who suggested he was not born an American.
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Weasel Zippers
Steve Coleman / Associated Press:
Baptist pastor backs Romney in spite of Mormonism — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Baptist pastor who last October called Mormonism a cult and said Mitt Romney is not a Christian is now endorsing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. — The pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas …
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Politico
Ben Geman / The Hill:
White House threatens veto of highway bill over Keystone pipeline provision — The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto House legislation to extend transportation programs because it contains GOP language that mandates approval of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
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Politico, Hot Air, The Political Carnival and Weasel Zippers
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Biden works to rev up youth vote — Vice President Joe Biden rallied a standing-room-only crowd of young people in a DC theater on Tuesday night by inviting the audience to envision what the country would look like with Republicans in charge. — “Does anybody in this audience …
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Weasel Zippers
Washington Post:
DOJ review of flawed FBI forensics processes lacked transparency — The bombshell came at the most inopportune time. — An FBI special agent was testifying in the government's high-profile terrorism trial against Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheik” suspected of plotting the first attack on the World Trade Center.
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The BLT and Crooks and Liars
The Local:
Minister in ‘racist circumcision outrage’ — Double click on a word to get a translation — Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth's participation in a “racist spectacle” in which she carved up a cake depicting a naked black woman has sparked outrage and prompted calls for the minister's dismissal.
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Colorlines, Guardian, Jezebel, Shakesville, msnbc.com, Mediaite and Feministe
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
With Voters Focused on Economy, Obama Lead Narrows — Social Issues Rank as Lowest Priorities — As the general election campaign gets underway, Obama's slim 49% to 45% edge over Mitt Romney is based on his continued support among women, college graduates, blacks, Latinos and lower-income voters.
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Washington Monthly, CNN, Hot Air, New York Magazine and 2012 Decoded