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Rick Klein / Yahoo! Good Morning America:
President Obama Affirms His Support for Same Sex Marriage — President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president. In an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Backs Same-Sex Marriage — Updated President Obama declared for the first time on Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue that continues to divide the country. “At a certain point,” Mr. Obama said in an interview …
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E.J. Graff / American Prospect:
I Am Gobsmacked — Well, I guess I'm cynical. I had a list of reasons as long as my arm for President Obama NOT to state that he favors equal marriage. My heart is turning such cartwheels that I am not sure I can write anything cogent. — Here's what I was all ready to say before the announcement:
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Obama Embraces Marriage Equality — President Obama has come out in support of marriage equality for gay and lesbian people in an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts this afternoon: … Watch it: — His endorsement comes less than a week after Vice President Joe Biden embraced …
Log Cabin Republicans:
Obama Announcement Is Cold Comfort to LGBT Americans — (Washington, DC) - Log Cabin Republicans respond to President Barack Obama's latest evolution on the freedom to marry. — “That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
President Obama's calculated gamble on gay marriage — President Obama's decision to express support for gay marriage in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts is a decision that comes with real political risk. — President Obama declares his support for gay marriage in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News.
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New York Times:
Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
An Obama Gay Marriage Timeline — President Obama may come out in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage today in an interview with the ABC News. It's been a long and winding road there. — Obama in 1996: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages,and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.”
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M.S. / Democracy in America:
Good for Obama, bad for gay marriage — BARACK OBAMA took cubic miles of guff for spending the last few years insisting his position on gay marriage was “evolving”. Now he's finally come out and said what everybody knew he was eventually going to say: he thinks gay people should be allowed to marry the partner of their choice.
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Fox News:
Obama backs gay marriage, answering speculation on ‘evolving’ position
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Top social conservative worried the right may lose on gay marriage
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Washington Free Beacon:
Gay for Pay — President Obama announced his support …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
The Influence Industry: Same-sex marriage issue shows importance of gay fundraisers
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Prez and the Evolution: President Obama Comes Out For Gay Marriage To Robin Roberts
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Joe Sudbay / Gay Politics:
BREAKING: President Obama supports marriage equality
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lugar's Demise and the Constitutional Crisis — The defeat of Richard Lugar in the Indiana Republican Senate primary is the kind of event that would have been shocking just a half-dozen years ago, and has since grown routine. Incumbent senators used to have almost no fear that they might …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Sen. Danforth (R) Says GOP Becoming ‘Increasingly Inconsequential,’ ‘Intolerant’ — Former Ambassador to the UN and U.S. Sen. John Danforth (R-MO) — In 2010, former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO) told the New York Times that “If Dick Lugar, having served five terms …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Richard Mourdock: ‘Bipartisanship Ought To Consist Of Democrats Coming To The Republican Point Of View’ — Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R) crushed Sen. Dick Lugar (R) in yesterday's GOP Senate primary in Indiana, ending the 36-year career of one of the few Republican senators left …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Richard Mourdock dismisses Dick Lugar attack
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Man in the News | Richard Mourdock: Richard Mourdock's Many Pursuits Don't Include Bipartisanship
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Why Dick Lugar lost
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Moderate Republicans Fall Away in the Senate
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Romney in Colorado: “I do not favor civil unions” — DENVER — Mitt Romney, who's now a sure bet to be the Republican Party's presidential nominee this fall, commented about gay marriage and civil unions during an interview with FOX31 Denver's Jeremy Hubbard Wednesday.
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Republicans: Our Position Is Clear, Marriage Is Between One Man And One Woman
Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Romney affirms opposition to same-sex marriage
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
RNC chairman: Obama ‘played politics,’ GOP ‘clear’ in opposition to same-sex marriage
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Bill Dedman / msnbc.com:
Conservative author Jonah Goldberg drops claim of two Pulitzer nominations — On the dust jacket of his new book, “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas,” best-selling conservative author and commentator Jonah Goldberg is described as having “twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.”
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: The margins told the story — Voters arrive at Overbrook Elementary School in Charleston to cast their votes in the primary election, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. … *** The margins told the story: The overall results went largely as expected last night in Indiana, North Carolina …
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
TO EXPLAIN OBAMA'S WV HUMILIATION, DEMS ACCUSE THEIR OWN OF RACISM
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Naomi Schaefer Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The Academic Mob Rules — Instead of encouraging wide discussion, the Chronicle of Higher Education fires a blogger. — Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a cover story called “Black Studies: ‘Swaggering Into the Future,’” in which the reporter described how …
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Mass. Dems file ethics complaint against Brown (Updated) — The Massachusetts Democratic Party has filed an ethics complaint against Scott Brown, alleging that Brown has used official resources for campaign purposes. — The complaint focuses on footage of Brown's half-court shot …
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Dan Froomkin / Reuters:
Colin Powell's New Book: War With Iraq Never Debated … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, War Wire, Video, Iraq WMD, Scooter Libby, Works For Me, Politics News — WASHINGTON — In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell provides …
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BuzzFeed:
5 Questions For Mitt Romney On Gay Rights — Mitt Romney said today that “domestic partnership benefits, hospital visitation rights, and the like are appropriate but that the others are not.” That leaves a lot of gray area, and there are some questions he'll likely have to answer.
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