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7:25 PM ET, May 2, 2012

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Vanity Fair:
Becoming Obama  —  When Barack Obama met Genevieve Cook in 1983 at a Christmas party in New York's East Village, it was the start of his most serious romance yet.  But as the 22-year-old Columbia grad began to shape his future, he was also struggling with his identity: American or international?
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Obama: ‘New York girlfriend’ was composite  —  One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.
Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake:
Wife of NC State Senator: Amendment One Needed ‘To Protect the Caucasian Race’  —  I don't even know where to begin to unpack this trash.  Chad Nance who is a freelance journalist in Winston-Salem and is covering the election here in NC, recorded the wife of NC Sen. Peter Brunstetter confirming …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Wife Of Key Legislator Behind North Carolina's Anti-Gay Amendment Claims It Would Protect ‘Caucasian’ Race  —  The wife of a prominent North Carolina state senator and supporter of Amendment 1 — a proposed ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage, civil unions …
Discussion: www2.journalnow.com
Jordan Green / The YES! Weekly Blog:
Racialized remark about marriage amendment attributed to state senator's wife  —  UPDATE: National media pickups at Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast and Daily Kos.  Still no word from the Brunstetters.  —  ORIGINAL POST: Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist …
Dustin Ingalls / Public Policy Polling:
Amendment One still up 14 points in N.C.
Joel Siegel / Yahoo! News:
Newt Gingrich $4 Million in Debt; Staffers and Creditors Fume  —  Newt Gingrich ends his White House dream today with his political committee facing a mountain of debts — owing about $4 million to scores of businesses and campaign workers around the country who fear they will never get paid.
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ABCNEWS:
Designer of Ann Romney's $1K Shirt Says It's Off The Rack  —  CHANTILLY, Va. — The fashion house that makes the nearly $1,000 blouse worn by Ann Romney on morning television earlier this week tells ABC News that they had nothing to do with the wardrobe choice, remarking that they'd prefer to stay out of politics.
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Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Warren: I used minority listing to make friends  —  Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade …
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Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
White and wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren
Discussion: Washington Monthly
BuzzFeed:
New York Post Mocks Obama's Afghanistan Trip  —  Two schools of thought: Obama is at risk of being seen as politicizing national security.  Or, any day spent talking about Osama Bin Laden, and not the economy, is a good one.
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Frances Robles / MiamiHerald.com:
George Zimmerman's crude Myspace page from 2005 uncovered  —  While it includes photos of an ethnically diverse group of friends, the murder defendant's 2005 web presence includes disparaging remarks about Mexicans.  —  FROBLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM  —  SANFORD — Just as George Zimmerman's attorney pushes …
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Nick R. Martin / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:   TPMMuckraker  —  Unearthed: George Zimmerman's MySpace Page
Rachel Rose Hartman / ABCNEWS:
Michele Bachmann endorses Richard Mourdock in Indiana Senate race  —  Michele Bachmann on Wednesday afternoon publicly endorsed Richard Mourdock, the candidate who is running against her colleague, Sen. Dick Lugar, in the Indiana Senate primary which takes place next Tuesday.
Discussion: CNN and Yahoo! News
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
It's starting to look over for Dick Lugar
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Indianapolis Star:
Indiana senator: What is driving this race? It's all about Lugar, his missed chances
Discussion: msnbc.com
Bill Clinton / New York Times:
‘The Passage of Power,’ Robert Caro's New L.B.J. Book  —  “The Passage of Power,” the fourth installment of Robert Caro's brilliant series on Lyndon Johnson, spans roughly five years, beginning shortly before the 1960 presidential contest, including the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis …
utsandiego.com:
Man abandoned in DEA cell steps forward  —  He screamed.  He kicked madly at the door.  He cried like a baby.  Then, locked inside a five-by-10-foot windowless cell and seemingly forgotten, the hallucinations crept in.  —  Daniel Chong said nothing made sense.
Discussion: Guardian
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Washington Post:
Chen Guangcheng leaves U.S. embassy; deal to guarantee his safety may be unraveling, friends say  —  BEIJING — Blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled de facto house arrest last month and sought refuge for six days at the U.S. Embassy, left the diplomatic compound on Wednesday …
Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
The Richard Grenell Fiasco: How a Cynical Political Move Blew Up in Mitt Romney's Face … Elections 2012 , Richard Grenell , Richard Grenell Mitt Romney , Richard Grenell Resigns , Richard Grenell Romney , Gay Voices News  —  A week ago a Washington reporter contacted me to discuss Mitt Romney's hiring …
Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll shows Barrett leads Falk in recall primary; Walker and Barrett within single percentage point  —  Milwaukee, Wis. - With less than a week until the primary in the historic Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, a new Marquette Law School Poll shows Tom Barrett …
Discussion: Washington Post, msnbc.com and Politico
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama's Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street  —  In late January, Brad Thompson, the Obama campaign's chief liaison to major donors in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, called some of his contacts in the area, most of them Wall Street executives.  The president's next trip to town would be in early March.
Andrew Feinberg / The Hill:
Ethics watchdog asks FCC to revoke Fox's broadcast licenses  —  An ethics watchdog group is using the hacking scandal in the United Kingdom to call on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to cancel Fox's broadcast licenses.  —  The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government …
John Sides / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Obama More Popular Than He Should Be?  —  It's well known that presidential approval ratings are a powerful predictor of election outcomes.  President Obama's current 47 percent approval rating would be among the lowest approval ratings of any incumbent president who went on to be re-elected.
 
 
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Saturday Night Live’ creator: Romney won't be on show this season
Discussion: Deadline.com and HotAirPundit
CNN:
‘No Swiss Mitt’  —  Washington (CNN) - About 10 people from …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
Pelosi denies lying about waterboarding
Fergal O'Brien / Bloomberg:
European Unemployment Rate Rises to Highest in Almost 15 Years
Eli Yokley / PoliticMo:
Gay Republican wants party to drop 'don't say gay' bill
BuzzFeed:
Document: How The Obama Administration Is Selling Health Care Law
Discussion: The Policy Page
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Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  There may not be much President Obama can do to improve …
Discussion: Hot Air
ABCNEWS:
Romney, In Cell Phone Video, Opines on Wealth
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
A Paper Of Cowards  —  Drudge links to a Virginian-Pilot …
Discussion: Datechguy's Blog
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
No, Kathleen Sebelius Does Not Need A Legal Memo To Ignore False Anti-Contraception Legal Arguments
Peter Orszag / Bloomberg:
About Peter R Orszag  —  Bad Models Mistook Housing Bust for Dot-Com Bubble
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks
 
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