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Mark Halperin / Swampland:
The View from One Prudential Plaza: Why the Obama Campaign Is So Confident About Beating Romney — President Obama pauses while speaking at a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012 — Barack Obama's decision to base his re-election campaign outside of Washington seems to be working pretty darn well.
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Weasel Zippers, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, GOP 12 and ABCNEWS
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BuzzFeed:
Romney Silent As Woman Says Obama Should Be Tried For Treason — A town hall bubbles over. — EUCLID, Ohio — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney didn't comment on a supporter's assertion that President Barack Obama should be tried for treason at a town hall event here.
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Plain Dealer, Mediaite, Business Insider, No More Mister Nice Blog, Race 4 2012, Daily Kos and Guardian
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama team: Romney must rebuke ‘extreme voices’ after ‘treason’ call at rally — President Obama's campaign is looking to seize on a pair of controversial comments by supporters at Mitt Romney's town hall meeting in Cleveland Monday, calling on the presumptive Republican nominee to “stand up to the extreme voices in his party.”
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Politico, The Caucus, The Hill, Connecting.the.Dots, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Romney Refuses To Stand Up To Woman Who Says Obama Should Be ‘Tried For Treason’ — At a town hall event in Ohio this afternoon, a woman asked Mitt Romney what he would do to roll back the size of government, and commented that President Obama “should be tried for treason.”
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Power Line, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, The Maddow Blog and The Stranger …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Barack Obama Accused Of Treason At Mitt Romney Town Hall (VIDEO) … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Mitt Romney, Barack Obama 2012 , Elections 2012, Video, Election 2012, Barack Obama Treason, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Treason, Obama Treason, Politics News
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BuzzFeed, RedState, Politicker, Indecision Forever, Washington Free Beacon and Associated Press
James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Poll: Obama, Romney in dead heat — A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a dead heat in the presidential race six months before the election. — Mitt Romney edged out President Barack Obama 48 percent to 47 percent among likely voters …
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CNN, American Prospect, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers, LifeNews.com, Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, The Other McCain, Hit & Run, Wake up America, GOP 12, ABCNEWS, Business Insider, Campaign 2012, White House Dossier, Instapundit, The Moderate Voice, msnbc.com, No More Mister Nice Blog, American Spectator, Associated Press, The Page and National Review
Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing states' poll: Big challenges loom for Obama, Romney
Swing states' poll: Big challenges loom for Obama, Romney
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Ballot Box, The Hill, Gallup, Politico, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Business Insider, 2012 Decoded, Guardian, Hot Air, Campaign 2012, Mediaite, The Hill, Washington Monthly, CNN, The Daily Caller, GOP 12 and National Review
Adam Goldman / Associated Press:
US: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot — WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned.
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ABCNEWS, Guardian, New York Times, Politicker, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Poynter, ThinkProgress, Business Insider and The Stranger …
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CBS News:
CIA thwarts new al Qaeda underwear bomb plot — (CBS/AP) WASHINGTON — The CIA thwarted a plot by al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, a U.S. counter-terrorism official tells CBS News.
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The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com, New York Magazine and Algemeiner.com
Fox News:
CIA thwarts Al Qaeda underwear bomb plot near anniversary of bin Laden's death — The CIA has unraveled a terror plot by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using an underwear bomb around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Usama bin Laden.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report and The PJ Tatler
Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
CIA thwarts al Qaeda plot timed near bin Laden anniversary
CIA thwarts al Qaeda plot timed near bin Laden anniversary
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ABCNEWS
BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Was Arrested For Disorderly Conduct In 1981 — The charges were dropped after Romney threatened to sue. “I was not a disorderly person,” Romney said. — Mitt Romney campaigns in Pittsburgh. — It's a little reported anecdote, but in 1981 presumptive Republican Presidential …
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JustOneMinute, Hot Air, his vorpal sword, Associated Press, The Reaction, Naked DC, Daily Kos, Catholic Bandita, Indecision Forever and GOP 12
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Clinton hopes to see female US president — KOLKATA, India (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she has no desire to make another run for the White House but hopes to see an American woman president in her lifetime. — Politely turning aside questions …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Hillary Clinton : I will see a woman in White House
Hillary Clinton : I will see a woman in White House
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The Hill and The PJ Tatler
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Chelsea Clinton's Childhood: No Pizza, Cartoons on Weekdays
Chelsea Clinton's Childhood: No Pizza, Cartoons on Weekdays
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Gretawire
Daily Kos:
WTF? Democratic Party of Wisconsin Cancels post-primary Unity Rally — Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8th, Wisconsin voters will vote in a special recall election primary. On the Democratic ballot for governor are four legitimate contenders. The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Governor Scott Walker on June 5th.
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National Review, Campaign 2012, RedState, Washington Free Beacon and Althouse
Tim Mak / Politico:
Blogs: A French lesson for Obama — Progressive bloggers on Monday pointed to the election of a Socialist, Francois Hollande, to the presidency of France to suggest that austerity measures in Europe weren't working - or pleasing the electorate there - and that similar policies wouldn't be effective in the United States.
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Facebook, ABCNEWS, American Prospect and Human Events
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Those Revolting Europeans
Those Revolting Europeans
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Slate, Newsy, Agence France Presse, Bloomberg, Ezra Klein, Firedoglake, The Barrometer, Hit & Run, The Moderate Voice, ABCNEWS, Hullabaloo, The Greenroom, The Daily Dish, Crooks and Liars, Suburban Guerrilla, Daily Kos, Cafe Hayek, Taylor Marsh, Washington Monthly, ABCNEWS, American Power, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Althouse, Wall Street Journal, THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT and Reuters
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The Washington Post Is In Even Worse Shape Than You Think — The Washington Post Co. reported its first-quarter earnings on Friday, and the news coming out of the newspaper division was mostly grim. The unit lost $22.6 million in the quarter, with revenue down 8% and revenue from print advertising specifically falling 17%.
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TechCrunch, Poynter, The Other McCain, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Eschaton, more at Mediagazer »
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BuzzFeed:
Delta Pulls “Daily Show” Ads After Catholic Complaints — Catholic League chief Bill Donohue is still on his campaign against Jon Stewart for a weeks-old “vagina manger” bit. The next target: Kellogg's. — Catholic League president Bill Donohue declared an early victory in his campaign …
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ThinkProgress and Mediaite
Bloomberg:
Look Who's Pushing Homeowners Off the Foreclosure Cliff — One of the more confounding aspects of the U.S. housing crisis has been the reluctance of lenders to do more to assist troubled borrowers. After all, when homes go into foreclosure, banks lose money.
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Firedoglake and Eschaton
The Daily Beast:
Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice? — Despite his populist posturing, the president has failed to pin a single top finance exec on criminal charges since the economic collapse. Are the banks too big to jail—or is Washington's revolving door at to blame? Peter J. Boyer and Peter Schweizer investigate:
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McClatchy Washington Bureau, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Clayton Cramer's Blog
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
This 93-Year-Old Grandmother Is Suing Pennsylvania Over Voter ID Laws — The first time Viviette Applewhite went to the polls, she cast her vote for John F. Kennedy. But this year, a strict new voter identification law will likely prevent the now-93-year old woman and many others in Pennsylvania …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and FreakOutNation
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Rick Berg, GOP Senate Candidate In North Dakota, Stumped On Minimum Wage (VIDEO) … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Video, North Dakota, North Dakota Democratic Party, Heidi Heitkamp, Minimum Wage, Rick-Berg, Rick-Berg-Campaign-Ad, Politics News — WASHINGTON — Rep. Rick Berg (R-N.D.) …
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ThinkProgress and The Maddow Blog
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
INFOGRAPHIC: House GOP's Deficit Reduction Efforts Dwarfed By Cost Of Tax Cuts For The Rich — House Republicans will today finalize their deficit reduction plans as required under the Budget Control Act, the deal reached last August to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
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Washington Monthly, Associated Press and The Hill
Reuters:
Old feud appears to sink Obama's Fed nominees — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's two nominees to the Federal Reserve appear likely to fall victim to a long-running political feud, which would leave the central bank short-handed as it struggles with tough regulatory and monetary policy questions.
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New York Magazine, TheMoneyIllusion and Brad DeLong
Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor:
Why Ron Paul's big wins in Maine and Nevada matter — When Ron Paul delegates show up at the Republican National Convention in August, they may be strong enough to throw the event into disarray - just at the moment Mitt Romney needs to show the GOP united behind him.
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Washington Post, Truthdig, Business Insider, Hit & Run and Mad Kane's Political Madness
Boston Globe:
New Yorkers open their wallets for Brown — US Senator Scott Brown collected more itemized campaign donations from New York City than from any other city in America, including Boston and others in Massachusetts, during the first three months of this year, a Globe analysis of federal campaign records shows.
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Blue Mass Group, Capital New York, Ballot Box and ThinkProgress