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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 …
Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Warning Signs in Wisconsin for Obama — In a potentially ominous sign for the Obama campaign, a new poll has declared Wisconsin a true tossup state, finding President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a 46%-46% tie among likely voters. — As the Obama team eyes potential paths to victory in November …
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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 — Mike Huckabee is firmly denying that he approved a fundraising letter which refers to President Obama's advisers as “morally repugnant political whores.” — “This was a complete surprise to me,” Gov. Huckabee said in a statement to POLITICO, sent via a spokesperson.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Obama, Boehner clash at White House over debt-ceiling hike — President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) clashed during a White House meeting on Wednesday, with the Speaker telling the president that he was “not going to allow a debt-ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt,” Boehner's office said.
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Suzy Khimm / Ezra Klein:
Democrats talk about cutting entitlements. Republicans don't talk about raising taxes.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans Pledge New Standoff on Debt Limit
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Jim Romenesko:
[UPDATED] The joke that Jimmy Kimmel didn't tell at the WHCA dinner … UPDATE: Tapper confirms to Dylan Stableford that he helped Kimmel: — “I tried to help Jimmy with the temperature of the room. And yes, I thought that joke would cause the room to turn against him …
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Dylan Stableford / Associated Press:
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.
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
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying — Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave a big speech in which he accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire of debt.” It's a good line, and it has received widespread media coverage. — Romney's speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen.
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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts
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Maggie Habermanand Glenn Thrush / Politico:
President Obama and Mitt Romney's common enemy — Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spend a lot of time trumpeting their differences, but they do share at least one common conviction: disdain for a political news media they see as eager to vaporize them for the sheer sport of it.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Hot Air interview with Mitt Romney
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Pvictorwins / CBS New York:
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
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Sam Ser / The Times of Israel:
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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
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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DealBook:
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 …
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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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Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Walker speeds release of positive jobs data — By Craig Gilbert and John Schmid of the Journal Sentinel — In an unusual effort to rebut bad news on the jobs front, the Walker administration is speeding up release of new numbers showing job gains rather than job losses in Wisconsin last year.
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Tim Jones / Bloomberg:
Walker Dislikes Job Numbers, So He'll Put Out His Own
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
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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Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
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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Alex Weprin / mediabistro.com:
CNN Hits Lowest Primetime Demo Rating at 9 PM In 15 Years — Last night was a typical, boring Tuesday, with little earth-shattering news to drive TV viewers to cable news. It was also May sweeps, with the season finale of “NCIS: LA,” “America's Got Talent” on NBC and “Dancing With the Stars” …
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
The 3 economic charts that could crash Obama's reelection hopes — Vice President Joe Biden is telling Ohio voters today that “things really are starting to come back.” — Is one of those “things” the U.S. economy? Because as the following three charts show, the U.S. economy …
Dan Spector / CJAD 800:
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean gets in a car accident while on the air with CJAD — Former Vermont Governor and Democratic Party Presidential candidate Howard Dean was in Montreal today, attending a luncheon where he discussed the US presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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