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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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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 …
Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing states' poll: Big challenges loom for Obama, Romney — Six months out, it's a tie. — The first USA TODAY/Gallup Swing States Poll since the GOP settled on a presumptive nominee shows big challenges for each side: Mitt Romney in generating enthusiasm and a personal connection with his supporters …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama-Romney Race Competitive in 2012 Swing States — Obama currently holds advantage on strength of support and enthusiasm — PRINCETON, NJ — In the first USA Today/Gallup swing-state poll conducted since Mitt Romney became the presumptive Republican nominee, Romney and President Barack Obama …
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
It's the Economy, Smartypants
It's the Economy, Smartypants
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Mother Jones and ABCNEWS
James Hohmann / Politico:
Poll: 2012 race a dead heat
Poll: 2012 race a dead heat
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Washington Monthly, Hit & Run, The Page, Associated Press and National Review
James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Poll: Obama, Romney in dead heat
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Those Revolting Europeans — The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it's about time. — Both countries held elections Sunday that were in effect referendums on the current European economic strategy, and in both countries voters turned two thumbs down.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Can This Man Save The Eurozone Economy?
Can This Man Save The Eurozone Economy?
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
A Scramble as Biden Backs Same-Sex Marriage — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Sunday that he was “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriages and was heartened by their growing acceptance across the country, a position that moves well beyond the “evolving” views that President Obama has said he holds on the issue.
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Drew Katchen / msnbc.com:
Education Secretary Arne Duncan: I believe in same-sex marriage
Education Secretary Arne Duncan: I believe in same-sex marriage
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Guardian, Politicker, Politico and Gay Politics
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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Brian Topp / Globe and Mail:
With Hollande's defeat of Sarkozy, France dodges a bullet — On election day in Paris, Place de la Bastille (home of the left) was full and Place de la Concorde (home of the right) was empty. As sure a sign as any that the Socialist Party was about to win the presidency, as it went on to do.
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John Cassidy / Rational Irrationality:
Sarko's Defeat: Good and Bad News for Obama
Sarko's Defeat: Good and Bad News for Obama
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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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Steve Mistler / Portland Press-Herald:
Ron Paul in Maine: Delegates in hand, but trouble afoot?
Ron Paul in Maine: Delegates in hand, but trouble afoot?
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Politico, Washington Monthly, The New Republic, The Stranger …, Balloon Juice and Las Vegas Sun
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
Secret U.S. program releases high-level insurgents in exchange for pledges of peace — KABUL — The United States has for several years been secretly releasing high-level detainees from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgent groups, a bold effort to quell violence …
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Adweek:
Secret Meeting Has ‘Washington Post’ Buzzing As paper struggles, big-name journalists meet with the paper's top business exec By Lucia Moses — Washington Post staffers are buzzing about a secret meeting between some 10 big-name Post journalists including Dana Priest, David Finkel and Carol Leonnig …
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Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Another Cuomo Book, This Time by Him — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, already the subject of two forthcoming books, is planning to write one of his own. — Mr. Cuomo's book will not be a memoir, aides said Sunday, but a reflection on his tenure as governor and his approach to governing.
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Hillary Clinton : I will see a woman in White House — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the United States will have a female president in her lifetime — but it won't be her. — Clinton said at a town hall meeting in Kolkata, India, that she wants to see “that final glass ceiling broken,” The Associated Press reported.
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Tom Brokaw: ‘It Is Time To Rethink’ White House Correspondents Dinner (VIDEO)
Tom Brokaw: ‘It Is Time To Rethink’ White House Correspondents Dinner (VIDEO)
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Michelle Kosinski / msnbc.com:
Prostitute at center of Secret Service scandal: Agents were ‘stupid brutes’ — MADRID, Spain — A woman identifying herself as the Colombian prostitute at the center of a scandal involving U.S. Secret Service personnel has called the group of agents “stupid brutes” who put partying above President Barack Obama's security.
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Dave Umhoefer / PolitiFact:
Behind the rhetoric: Why Scott Walker was able to raise unlimited funds — Democrats and their recall allies decry the law that has helped Gov. Scott Walker out-raise his opponents combined by $11 million dollars without regard to normal campaign contribution limits.
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Peter Berkowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers — At America's top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government. — It would be difficult to overstate the significance of The Federalist for understanding the principles …
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Pamela Owen / Daily Mail:
Did dinosaurs cause climate change? Huge creatures may have contributed to their own demise because they produced so much flatulence, say scientists — Dinosaurs may be partly to blame for a change in climate because they created so much flatulence, according to leading scientists.
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