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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Romney Raises $40.1 Million in April, Nearly Matching Obama — Mitt Romney almost matched President Obama in fund-raising during April after securing his party's presidential nomination and joining forces with the Republican National Committee, the campaign will announce on Thursday.
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ABCNEWS, Campaign 2012, Hot Air, White House Dossier and New York Times
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Romney and RNC raise $40.1 million in April — Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee raised $40.1 million last month and finished April with $61.4 million on hand, a GOP source confirms to POLITICO. — That's the first joint Romney-RNC fundraising figure of the 2012 campaign …
Politico:
Obama and Romney's common foe
Obama and Romney's common foe
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CNN, The Huffington Post and Weekly Standard, more at Mediagazer »
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Zimmerman Case - Keeping Hate Alive At The Times — The NY Times can't quite bring itself to report on the latest news in the Zimmerman case - Zimmerman's medical file shows he was banged up and Martin's autopsy showed bloody knuckles - so they hand the mike to the Ben Crump …
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New York Times, Mediaite, Conservative Hideout 2.0 and American Power
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msnbc.com:
Trayvon Martin killed by single gunshot fired from ‘intermediate range,’ autopsy shows — George Zimmerman's lawyer has signaled that he may seek a dismissal of the second-degree murder charges against his client under Florida's Stand Your Ground Law. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports.
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Little Green Footballs, www.wftv.com and Mediaite
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Kimmel cut WHCD joke per Jake Tapper's advice — Jimmy Kimmel delivered a barrage of edgy jokes at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (WHCD) late last month in Washington. But after consulting with ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, Kimmel decided several were too over-the-top to make the cut.
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Outside the Beltway and Pundit & Pundette
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JPMorgan's Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50% — The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank's initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the losses. — When Jamie Dimon …
BuzzFeed:
Huckabee Letter: Obama Surrounds Himself “With Morally Repugnant Political Whores” — A letter sent by the group Citizens United, over Hucakbee's signature, says the day Obama was sworn into office is “the day the country started going to pot.” Huckabee demands the letter be “pulled,” …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Huckabee demands fundraising letter pulled
Huckabee demands fundraising letter pulled
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The Moderate Voice, Mediaite, Daily Kos and Liberal Values
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WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States. — Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July …
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Real Time Economics, The Gateway Pundit, Vox Popoli, Gawker and National Review
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate — President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it. — Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Senate Democrats Achieve a New Standard of Irresponsibility
Senate Democrats Achieve a New Standard of Irresponsibility
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Health care reform: GOP preps plan for ruling on law — House Republican leaders are quietly hatching a plan of attack as they await a historic Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law. — If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear …
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BuzzFeed, RedState, Erick's blog, Hot Air and New York Times
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama, Boehner clash at White House meeting over raising debt ceiling
Obama, Boehner clash at White House meeting over raising debt ceiling
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Politico, Ballot Box, Speaker.gov, CNN, Ezra Klein, The Lonely Conservative and The Reaction
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G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama — WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.
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BuzzFeed, CBS Chicago, The Confluence, The Caucus and Business Insider
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
House GOP's Energy Dept. loan probe could ensnare two Cabinet secretaries — House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants to hear from two Cabinet officials — Commerce Secretary John Bryson and Energy Secretary Steven Chu — as part of an investigation …
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ThinkProgress
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A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward — Eduardo Saverin can escape the United States, but he can't slip Facebook. — “Everything I do in my personal life, in my professional life, it's completely there,” said Mr. Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, in his first major interview.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Buh-Bye — Over recent days we've been following the story …
Buh-Bye — Over recent days we've been following the story …
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Bloomberg, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
ABCNEWS:
Dinner for 2? Romney Spox Throws a Question at Biden at Dinner Run-In — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — One of Mitt Romney's spokesmen, in Ohio to attend Vice President's Joe Biden's speech today in nearby Youngstown, Ohio, got some unexpected one-on-one time with the veep tonight when he was seated next …
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Hotline On Call and The Page
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Did a WikiLeaks document doom Iranian ‘Mossad agent’? — Leaked diplomatic cable apparently pointed to Majid Fashi, who was hanged in Tehran on Tuesday for allegedly killing a nuclear scientist — W — ikiLeaks may have been responsible for exposing Majid Jamali Fashi …
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americanthinker.com, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav
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Robert F. Kennedy's Estranged Wife Found Dead In Westchester Home — BEDFORD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was found dead inside her Westchester County home on Wednesday. — Photos: Notable Deaths 2012 — Mary Kennedy, 52, was discovered …
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Charles Mahtesian / Associated Press:
Mary Kennedy, RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, found dead
Mary Kennedy, RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, found dead
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ABCNEWS
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No media love for asymmetric polarization — “Polarization also has affected the two parties differently. The Republican Party has drifted much farther to the right than the Democratic Party has drifted to the left.... In other words, the story of the past few decades is asymmetric polarization.”
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Daily Kos and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Democrats' Odds of Retaining Senate Improve — When we last took an overview of Senate races in December, Republicans appeared to be slight favorites to take control from Democrats, with a net gain of four to five seats representing the most likely outcome.
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Washington Post, A plain blog about politics and The Caucus
Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll shows Walker, Kleefisch lead in recall — Milwaukee, Wis. - A new Marquette Law School Poll shows that with three weeks to go until the recall election Governor Scott Walker has taken a six-percentage point lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 50-44 percent, among likely voters.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Obama pulls ahead of Romney as presidential race heats up — President Obama tops Republican Mitt Romney in a head-to-head matchup, according to the latest Fox News poll, which finds American voters feeling more positive about the economy. — Obama would have an advantage …
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TPMMuckraker — Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards — “Birthers” are flipping their tinfoil hats over a new film that claims President Barack Obama's father was not a Kenyan goat herder but rather a communist journalist nearly four decades older than his mother. The problem?
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Indecision Forever, American Prospect and Talking Points Memo
Amie Parnes / Ballot Box:
Messina dismisses doubts about Obama's chances to win in NC — CHICAGO — President Obama's campaign manager dismissed suggestions that it was a mistake for Democrats to hold their national convention in North Carolina, saying he has “zero” regrets about the decision.
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Taegan Goddard's …