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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney's Support Of Same-Sex Adoption Lasts One Day — Among Mitt Romney's timid responses this week after President Obama's endorsement of marriage equality was an admission that he was “fine” with same-sex couples adopting children, saying, “that's something that people have a right to do.”
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Bush '04 pollster: Change in attitudes on gay marriage across the board — Former President George W. Bush's pollster for his 2004 re-election, Jan van Lohuizen, has put out a memo to Republican operatives suggesting a shift in the way the GOP discusses same-sex marriage, a piece flagged by Jonathan Martin.
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Matthew Shelley / NationalJournal.com:
Romney Backs Away From Gay Adoptions — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday backed away from his support of adoptions by gay couples, saying that he simply “acknowledges” the legality of such adoptions in many states.
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Walt Cronkite / NationalJournal.com:
Romney Says He's ‘Fine’ With Gay Couples Adopting Children
Romney Says He's ‘Fine’ With Gay Couples Adopting Children
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Then And Now: Conservative Reactions To Marriage Equality Have Lost Their Verve
Then And Now: Conservative Reactions To Marriage Equality Have Lost Their Verve
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Businessman Says He Lost Hundreds of Customers After Attacks by Obama Campaign — Businessman Frank Vandersloot, the CEO of Melaleuca, has been targeted by the Obama campaign after donating money to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. “Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website …
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Chip Reid / CBS News:
Romney address at Liberty Univ. sparks controversy — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — (CBS News) WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is to deliver the commencement address Saturday at Virginia's Liberty University, the largest evangelical college in the country. — His visit has stirred debate …
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Associated Press:
N.C. governor: ‘We look like Mississippi’ after vote — GREENVILLE, N.C. — Passage of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman makes North Carolina “look like Mississippi,” Gov. Beverly Perdue said Friday. — The chairman of the Mississippi GOP …
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Mitt Romney uses Jimmy Carter as campaign weapon — FORT LUPTON, Colo. — For President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney is an obvious throwback to another era — a stiff Father Knows Best type who straps the dog to the station wagon and marries his high-school sweetheart.
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Peter Allen / Daily Mail:
New French president Francois Hollande, who claims to ‘dislike the rich’, has THREE homes on French Riviera — France's new Socialist president owns three holiday homes in the glamorous Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged today. — The 57-year-old who ‘dislikes the rich’ and wants …
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Kathie Obradovich / Des Moines Register:
Rand Paul: GOP needs Paul supporters to grow — Sen. Rand Paul, in Des Moines tonight, urged Iowa Republican leaders to end hostilities over the influx of Ron Paul supporters into party leadership. — “I know not everybody here voted for my dad, but what I will say from a personal perspective is …
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Guardian:
MI6 and CIA rattled over bomb plot leak — Leak about UK involvement described as despicable by CIA as anger turns to Obama administration for compromising mission — Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community …
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William A. Galston / Brookings Institute:
Six Months to Go: Where the Presidential Contest Stands as the General Election Begins — In this new paper, William Galston analyzes the political backdrop against which the 2012 general will be waged, offering fuller context into voter attitudes, economic trends, and policy and ideological issues shaping the electoral outcome.