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7:10 PM ET, May 9, 2012

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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 …
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 …
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:
Discussion: pandagon.net
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 …
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.
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.”
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.
M.S. / Democracy in America:
Good for Obama, bad for gay marriage
Discussion: The New Republic and The Caucus
BuzzFeed:
Leaked: White House Talking Points On Gay Marriage Flip
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Top social conservative worried the right may lose on gay marriage
Discussion: Reuters
Fox News:
Obama backs gay marriage, answering speculation on ‘evolving’ position
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Prez and the Evolution: President Obama Comes Out For Gay Marriage To Robin Roberts
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Michelle Malkin and Wonkette
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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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 …
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 …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Moderate Republicans Fall Away in the Senate
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Swampland
Melinda Henneberger / Washington Post:
Dick Lugar, poor loser?
Discussion: Wonkette and Hot Air
KDVR.com is the website for KDVR Television …:
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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Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
Asked About Gay Marriage, Romney Doesn't Answer
Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Romney affirms opposition to same-sex marriage
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:   Republicans: Our Position Is Clear, Marriage Is Between One Man And One Woman
Justin Sink / The Hill:
RNC chairman: Obama ‘played politics,’ GOP ‘clear’ in opposition to same-sex marriage
Discussion: The Hill, Ballot Box and CNN
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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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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and BuzzFeed
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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Stephanie Banchero / Wall Street Journal:
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