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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Cory Booker walks back criticism of Obama tactics as ‘nauseating’ — Newark Mayor Cory Booker released a Web video Sunday emphasizing his support for President Obama and clarifying remarks he made earlier in the day where he criticized the president's campaign tactics as “nauseating.”
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Washington Post:
Cory Booker commits the classic Washington gaffe — In Washington, there's an old cliche: A gaffe is when a politician is accidentally honest. — That's what happened to Newark (N.J.) Mayor Cory Booker during an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
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ABCNEWS, Politico, theGrio and The PJ Tatler
Chris Gentilviso / The Huffington Post:
Cory Booker: Bain Attacks By Obama Campaign Against Mitt Romney Are ‘Nauseating’ (VIDEO) … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Karl Rove, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama , Barack Obama 2012 , Elections 2012, Video, Cory Booker, Mitt Romney Bain, Bain Capital, Cory Booker Bain …
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ABCNEWS:
Cory Booker Walks Back Criticism of Obama Campaign Bain Attacks
Cory Booker Walks Back Criticism of Obama Campaign Bain Attacks
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Politico, The Raw Story, ThinkProgress and GOP.com
Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Campaign Spending About Half of Total Raised
Obama Campaign Spending About Half of Total Raised
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Politico, ABCNEWS and New York Times
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama, Romney Each Has Economic Strengths With Americans — Obama preferred for healthcare costs; Romney preferred for deficit — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans see the cost of healthcare, the federal budget deficit, and unemployment as the most important economic issues facing the country today …
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Democrats' Wisconsin Worry
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The Hill, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Prairie Weather
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Romney could best Obama in fundraising
Romney could best Obama in fundraising
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BuzzFeed, GOP 12 and PoliPundit.com
Jack Gillum / Associated Press:
Conservative donors slow to back Romney's campaign
Conservative donors slow to back Romney's campaign
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ThinkProgress and CNN
Sarah Campbell / The Salisbury Post:
Video stirs debate on teacher's actions in North class — SPENCER — After reviewing a video in which a North Rowan High School teacher tells a student he can be arrested for speaking ill of President Barack Obama, the Rowan-Salisbury School System said it can be a learning experience.
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
NC TEACHER SCREAMS AT STUDENT: IT'S CRIMINAL TO CRITICIZE OBAMA
NC TEACHER SCREAMS AT STUDENT: IT'S CRIMINAL TO CRITICIZE OBAMA
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Cold Fury, RedState and Wake up America
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Obama super PAC slump continues — The pro-Barack Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is still struggling to keep up with GOP super PACs preparing to unleash millions of dollars in independent advertisements. — Priorities USA Action raised $1.6 million in April, according to federal records released late Sunday.
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‘Super PACs’ Changing How Political Operatives Operate — The intensifying flood of uncapped donations to outside political groups is transforming not just campaigns but the entire business of politics. — Once seasonal affairs, campaigns from the presidential race down to House contests …
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Washington Monthly, The Other McCain, Hotline On Call, The Caucus and NewsBusters.org
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's Mormon faith tangles with a quirk of Arkansas history — CARROLLTON, Ark. — On the wildflower-studded slopes of the Ozarks, where memories run long and family ties run thick, a little-known and long-ago chapter of history still simmers. — On Sept. 11, 1857 …
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americanthinker.com, Business Insider and Campaign 2012
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
The long shadow of Barack Obama's identity crisis — The Washington Post has obsessed over an incident in which Mitt Romney allegedly cut the hair of a fellow high school student. The mainstream media paid plenty of attention to George W. Bush's “irresponsible youth,” and speculated about whether he had used cocaine.
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Barack Obama's biographical brief edited repeatedly over 17 years, but Kenyan birthplace changed just weeks after his presidential run announced — The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as “Kenya”. And, over the course of 17 years …
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Scared Monkeys, Runnin' Scared, The Other McCain, The PJ Tatler and americanthinker.com
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Europe is driving full-tilt, foot on the pedal, into a brick wall — It's unbelievable that we should be urging our neighbours to adopt a tighter fiscal union, argues Boris Johnson. — I see the G8 has a brilliant solution to the problems of the eurozone. President Obama says it's time for “growth and jobs”.
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protein wisdom, Guardian and National Review
T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry — Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama's jobs council, to be checked in for a roundtable with the president.
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TigerHawk, White House Dossier, The Heritage Foundation, Betsy's Page and The Lonely Conservative
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NATO to endorse Afghan exit plan, seeks routes out — (Reuters) - NATO leaders will endorse plans to hand over combat command in Afghanistan by mid-2013 on Monday and seek practical progress in opening routes to bring an international army of more than 130,000 back home from an unpopular, resource-draining war.
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Chicago Police Attack Press, Use Bikes As Weapons — Tracey Pollock, a credentialed photographer for The UpTake, is attacked by police in Chicago during an anti-NATO protest on Saturday. Before the attack, police were using their bicycles as weapons to force back the crowd which was staging a march without a permit.
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Suburban Guerrilla, The Raw Story and The Agonist
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Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Occupy Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed & Interrogated at Gunpoint
Occupy Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed & Interrogated at Gunpoint
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Los Angeles Times, The Raw Story, Philly.com, Suburban Guerrilla and The Agonist
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“Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?” — That's the headline on yesterday's Associated Press story by Charles Babington. The headline appeared on the main Yahoo page, which is far more heavily trafficked than any newspaper, and was picked up, based on a Google News search, by several hundred newspapers.
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