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Mike Allenand Jim Vandehei / Politico:
The un-McCain campaign — Mitt Romney and his top aides are building a strategy, partly by design and partly because of circumstance, around what they consider John McCain's disastrously run campaign in 2008. — The strategy: whatever McCain did, do the opposite.
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
For VP, Romney Is Looking For An ‘Incredibly Boring White Guy’
For VP, Romney Is Looking For An ‘Incredibly Boring White Guy’
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Politico and Dependable Renegade
Ben White / Politico:
Obama's Wall Street problem — The giant $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase highlights a central problem in President Barack Obama's case for a second term: Four years after the financial crisis nearly brought the nation to its knees, very little appears to have changed.
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CNN, The Hill, Hot Air, Ezra Klein, Taylor Marsh, ABCNEWS and CBS News
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Why We Regulate — One of the characters in the classic 1939 film “Stagecoach” is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big government, especially bank regulation — “As if we bankers don't know how to run our own banks!” he exclaims.
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Firedoglake, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, Hit & Run, The Mahablog, The Maddow Blog and Daily Kos
CNN:
Group's new ad pegs Obama to Wall Street
Group's new ad pegs Obama to Wall Street
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Politico, RedState, Washington Free Beacon and The Hill
CBS News:
Poll: Most Americans support same-sex unions — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — A new CBS News/New York Times Poll shows a solid majority of Americans support legal recognition for same-sex couples …
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ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, LGBTQ Nation, Human Rights Campaign and Joe. My. God.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Acceptance of Gay/Lesbian Relations Is the New Normal — For third year, majority says gay/lesbian relations are morally acceptable — PRINCETON, NJ — The slight majority of American adults, 54%, consider gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable.
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Mother Jones, Political Insider, The Daily Dish, Reuters, CNN and GayPatriot
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Why Republicans should resist using the same-sex marriage issue against Obama.
Why Republicans should resist using the same-sex marriage issue against Obama.
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GayPatriot
Dalia Sussman / The Caucus:
Poll: Age and Partisanship Continue to Mark Divide Over Gay Marriage
Poll: Age and Partisanship Continue to Mark Divide Over Gay Marriage
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ABCNEWS, Daily Kos and The Times of Israel, more at Mediagazer »
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama targets Romney tenure at Bain Capital with new ad, website — President Obama is taking dead aim at Mitt Romney's record helming Bain Capital, debuting a new television ad, online video, and website that each depict the private equity firm as predatory and having engaged in “questionable business practices.”
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National Review, CNN, Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway and American Spectator
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Ex-Obama adviser: Latest anti-Romney ad is ‘unfair’
Ex-Obama adviser: Latest anti-Romney ad is ‘unfair’
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CNN and National Review
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama Campaign Unloads On Romney's “Vampire” Bain Record
Obama Campaign Unloads On Romney's “Vampire” Bain Record
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ThinkProgress, Livewire, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Three to Exit J.P. Morgan — Drew, Others to Depart in Wake of Loss, Which Could Total More Than $4 Billion — Three high-ranking officers at the center of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s giant trading blunder are expected to leave the firm this week, said people familiar with the situation, and losses on the trade have grown.
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Fortune, Guardian, Deal Journal, Gothamist and msnbc.com
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Bloomberg:
As European Austerity Ends, So Could the Euro — The euro currency is a malady that condemns at least a generation of Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and Irish to the economic infirmary. — In these nations, unemployment rates are now at their highest levels in recent decades …
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National Review
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Why You Don't Have Stand-Alone HBO Go—And Why You Should Give HBO More Credit — There's been a lot of discussion over the past couple of days about why HBO hasn't made its content more widely available to non-cable subscribers. While I understand individual consumers are frustrated …
Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
West Virginia frets over felon's performance — The nation has moved on after its brief fixation last week with the felon who won 41 percent against Barack Obama, but West Virginia continues to wrestle with the aftermath of its May 8 primary. — Phil Kabler of the Charleston Gazette reported …
New York Times:
After Obama's Decision on Marriage, a Call to Pastors — WASHINGTON — About two hours after declaring his support for same-sex marriage last week, President Obama gathered eight or so African-American ministers on a conference call to explain himself. He had struggled with the decision …
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ABCNEWS, USA Today, Mediaite, The PJ Tatler, Yahoo! News, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Religion Dispatches and Weasel Zippers
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Beast:
Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama: The First Gay President — The president's bold support shifted the mainstream. Andrew Sullivan on why it shouldn't be surprising—Obama's life as a biracial man has deep ties to the gay experience. — It was the spring of 2007, back when Barack Obama's bid …
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Los Angeles Times, Addicting Info, Guardian, Hit & Run, Advocate, Towleroad News #gay, Poynter, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and Gawker
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Report says 230,000 unemployed losing benefits over weekend — More than 230,000 unemployed workers will lose their jobless benefits this weekend as portions of federal programs expire across several states. — All told, 409,300 long-term unemployed Americans in 27 states will have lost upward …
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Scared Monkeys
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Left Is Getting Clobbered on Twitter — We are in the early stages of the 2012 campaign season, with a lot of battlespace preparation going on. In the skirmishing so far, one perhaps surprising media advantage has become clear: the right is clobbering the left on Twitter.
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Washington Monthly
CNN:
Obama headlines two high dollar fundraisers in NYC — New York (CNN) - President Barack Obama ends a busy day Monday in New York City with two fundraisers for his re-election campaign. — Five days after announcing he personally supports same-sex marriage, the president will speak …
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National Review