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11:35 AM ET, May 6, 2012

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Alexander Marlow / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN IN EMPTY ARENA  —  Barack Obama launched his campaign in unspectacular fashion today at Ohio State University, the largest college in the crucial swing state.  A photo posted to twitter by Mitt Romney's campaign spokesman Ryan Williams reveals sparse attendance.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rubio: Obama ‘has become like everyone else in Washington’  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) accused President Obama of having lost the qualities which attracted Americans to vote for him in 2008.  —  “When this president ran for office in 2008, he said he was going to be different …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Jim Provance / Toledo Blade:
Obama kicks off re-election campaign in Columbus  —  Facebook Twitter Reddit Digg E-mail Print Rss  —  COLUMBUS — Two major rallies nearly 500 miles apart in a matter of hours.  Two battleground red-turned-blue states considered critical stops on the road to the White House.
New York Times:
Obama Formally Kicks Off Campaign With Rallies in Ohio and Virginia
Glenn Thrush / Politico:   Obama kickoff: Hope, change and Mitt
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Joe Biden Endorses Same-Sex Marriage  —  Vice President Joe Biden has endorsed same-sex marriage, becoming the highest ranking American official to back marriage for gay and lesbian people.  His comments signify a split within the Obama administration and may pave the way for President Obama …
Arnold Schwarzenegger / Los Angeles Times:
GOP, take down that small tent  —  California's Republican Party used to work toward solutions.  Now it's an exclusive club where members' ideological cards must be checked at the door.  —  From left: Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Nathan Fletcher.  (National Archives, Bob Galbraith …
Washington Examiner:
Warren ancestry claim puts light on corrupt system  —  Washington Post editorial writer and liberal blogger Jonathan Capehart is puzzled.  Why does the “non-issue” of Harvard law professor and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry “require so much attention?” he asked last week.
Discussion: Althouse
Pamela Owen / Daily Mail:
Inside the Kowloon Walled City where 50,000 residents eked out a grimy living in the most densely populated place on earth  —  Once thought to be the most densely populated place on Earth, with 50,000 people crammed into only a few blocks, these fascinating pictures give a rare insight …
Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
Gingrich 'can't imagine' being VP  —  Days after ending his run for the GOP presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich said Sunday he would not accept the Republican vice presidential slot if offered, and said Romney should focus on picking a young running mate.
Discussion: CNN
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
Never Mind Europe.  Worry About India.  —  THE economic slowdown in India is one of the world's biggest economic stories, but it is commanding only a modicum of attention in the United States.  —  It may not even look like a slowdown because by developed standards, India's growth …
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Via Meadia
George Talbot / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
Alabama politician Bill Johnson ‘obsessed’ with donating sperm  —  Bill Johnson, a former Alabama gubernatorial candidate, has left his wife and family in Prattville to be with babies he secretly conceived as a sperm donor in New Zealand.  —  Johnson's wife, Kathy Hale Johnson …
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David Fisher / New Zealand Herald:
Sperm donor ‘left me for babies’
Discussion: The Raw Story
Cristina Silva / Associated Press:
After GOP race, Gary Johnson wins Libertarian nod  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is campaigning to win the White House as a Libertarian after receiving scant attention in the Republican presidential race.  —  Johnson easily became the party's presidential nominee …
Discussion: Washington Wire
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BuzzFeed:
New Libertarian Nominee Gary Johnson Slams Republicans For Gay Staffer Flap
Discussion: Examiner and Politico
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Paul supporters oust two Romney backers … SPARKS - In a show of anti-establishment political power at Saturday's Nevada Republican Convention, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul's supporters ousted two Mitt Romney backers from the Republican National Committee.
Discussion: Las Vegas Sun and Politico
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Jobs Few, Grads Flock to Unpaid Internships  —  Confronting the worst job market in decades, many college graduates who expected to land paid jobs are turning to unpaid internships to try to get a foot in an employer's door.  —  While unpaid postcollege internships have long existed in the film …
Justin Fox:
Don't Like the Message?  Maybe It's the Messenger  —  We all like to think we can evaluate information and arguments rationally, regardless of where they come from.  But we don't.  As Yale Law School's Dan Kahan, who has studied this stuff a lot, puts it:
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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