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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
House strikes back on gay marriage — Just hours after President Barack Obama publicly backed gay marriage, the House struck back and passed a measure aimed at reinforcing the Defense of Marriage Act. — With a 245-171 vote, the House voted to stop the Justice Department from using taxpayer funds …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Why ABC's Robin Roberts got the exclusive — For President Barack Obama's ground-breaking interview on gay marriage, the White House turned to a friendly face - ABC's Robin Roberts. — She's a respected journalist who knows both Barack and Michelle Obama well, isn't regarded as a difficult …
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Politico:
Biden blamed; politics drove timing — Joe Biden just might go down in history as the guy who forced Barack Obama to publicly announce his private support for gay marriage. — But the vice president is no hero in the West Wing, and administration officials are struggling to cast Obama's truly historic …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
News Analysis: Obama's Watershed Move on Gay Marriage — President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage on Wednesday was by any measure a watershed. A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement, providing the most powerful evidence …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama on Biden: ‘Got Out a Little Bit Over His Skis’ — Vice President Joe Biden is at least part of the reason President Barack Obama came out in favor of same sex marriage yesterday, the president admitted in the interview on the issue with ABC's Robin Roberts:
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Elliott Abrams / Weekly Standard:
‘On My Behalf’ — The debate over same sex “marriage” has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. Then there is Barack Obama. — In his ABC interview, the president pretended that his much touted “evolution” had now led him, ineluctably, to speak out now, today; he simply could longer stay silent.
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Gay Marriage Reversal Means Cash For Obama
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Joseph Williams / Politico:
Black voters remain divided on gay marriage
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Rick Klein / Yahoo! Good Morning America:
President Obama Affirms His Support for Same Sex Marriage
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Livewire:
Romney Gets Testy After Questions On Gay Marriage, DREAM and Pot
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama Lets Go Of Fear
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Top social conservative worried the right may lose on gay marriage
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Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
Bring It On: Obama Rallies the Base With Gay Marriage Endorsement
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Matthew Dowd / The Huffington Post:
The Facts: Gay Marriage Didn't Tilt 2004 Election
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Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents — BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney on prank: ‘Back in high school I did some dumb things’ — Mitt Romney said Thursday that “back in high school I did some dumb things” but insisted that the prep school pranks chronicled in a news story were never intended to target gay students specifically.
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CNN:
TRENDING: Obama hits Romney with ‘Etch A Sketch’ — (CNN) - President Barack Obama labeled presumptive challenger Mitt Romney's comments that took credit for the auto industry's recovery as an “Etch A Sketch moment.” — “I think this is one of his Etch A Sketch moments.
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Team Obama trumpets same-sex marriage stance
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Responses to Obama's same-sex marriage announcement
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Charles Babington / Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Women, blacks, help Obama in new poll
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Rasmussen Reports:
Wisconsin Recall Election: Walker 50%, Barrett 45% — Embattled Republican Governor Scott Walker holds a five-point lead over his newly nominated Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in Wisconsin's special recall election. — A new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey shows that 50% …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Obama's careful line on same-sex marriage — Obama announces support for same-sex marriage, but walks a careful line to respect states' rights and religious views - always with an eye on the middle. ... Obama was going to do this, but Biden expedited this... And, of course, the politics - in short, this ain't 2004.
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BuzzFeed:
How Barack Obama Lost Hollywood — Last time they fell in love, volunteered, gave millions, but now “they hate him.” Can gay pride and a Clooney bash make his star twinkle again? — Source: flickr.com — LOS ANGELES, Calif. — On Tuesday night, comedian Jon Lovitz stood in the green room …
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Katherine Ellison / The Atlantic Online:
An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts — Industry giants say their case is misguided. But that isn't stopping a group of high school students from using the legal system to make environmental demands. — Alec Loorz turns 18 at the end of this month.
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Robert J. Barro / Wall Street Journal:
Robert Barro: Stimulus Spending Keeps Failing — If austerity is so terrible, how come Germany and Sweden have done so well? — The weak economic recovery in the U.S. and the even weaker performance in much of Europe have renewed calls for ending budget austerity and returning to larger fiscal deficits.
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Jobless claims fall, trade gap widens — (Reuters) - The number of Americans submitting new applications for jobless benefits edged down last week, easing concerns the labor market was deteriorating after April's weak employment growth. — While the claims data indicated the economy remained …
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