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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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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 …
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
An Obama Gay Marriage Timeline
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Joe Sudbay / Gay Politics:
BREAKING: President Obama supports marriage equality
BREAKING: President Obama supports marriage equality
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Log Cabin Republicans:
Obama Announcement Is Cold Comfort to LGBT Americans
Obama Announcement Is Cold Comfort to LGBT Americans
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Evolve: Obama gay marriage quotes
Evolve: Obama gay marriage quotes
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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
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
Man in the News | Richard Mourdock: Richard Mourdock's Many Pursuits Don't Include Bipartisanship
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Moderate Republicans Fall Away in the Senate
Moderate Republicans Fall Away in the Senate
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Manu Raju / Politico:
GOP senators wonder: Am I next?
GOP senators wonder: Am I next?
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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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Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
Asked About Gay Marriage, Romney Doesn't Answer — FORT LUPTON, Col. — At an event at an oil-and-gas production company here Wednesday morning, Mitt Romney refused to answer questions on same-sex marriage, a topic about which President Obama is expected to speak this afternoon, in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
RNC chairman: Obama ‘played politics,’ GOP ‘clear’ in opposition to same-sex marriage
RNC chairman: Obama ‘played politics,’ GOP ‘clear’ in opposition to same-sex marriage
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Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Romney affirms opposition to same-sex marriage
Romney affirms opposition to same-sex marriage
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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
TO EXPLAIN OBAMA'S WV HUMILIATION, DEMS ACCUSE THEIR OWN OF RACISM
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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.”
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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 …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NOW president returns fire on Limbaugh — Terry O'Neill, the president of the progressive National Organization for Women (NOW), is returning fire on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who yesterday called her organization a “faux feminist group” and its members “femi-nazis,” …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus: Limbaugh boycott cost ‘millions’
Cumulus: Limbaugh boycott cost ‘millions’
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Billy Graham and Amendment One — One of the odder phenomena surrounding the passage of Amendment One in North Carolina was the last-minute emergence of the Rev. Billy Graham, the retired, chronically-ill 93-year-old evangelist, as a supporter of the amendment.
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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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Newt Gingrich / Human Events:
Sarkozy, Obama, Romney, Ron Paul and the recent European elections — In the past few weeks, a number of elections in Europe have offered telling signs for American politics about the effect of the current pain on voters. — Two consistent patterns are emerging in virtually every European country …
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