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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC-Marist polls: Obama, Romney deadlocked in three key states — President Obama phones Mitt Romney to congratulate him for locking up the GOP nomination. NBC's Steve Handelsman reports. — President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney are deadlocked …
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Jim Vandeheiand Mike Allen / Politico:
To GOP, blatant bias in vetting — On the front page of its Sunday edition, the New York Times gave a big spread to Ann Romney spending lots of time and tons of money on an exotic genre of horse-riding. The clear implication: The Romneys are silly rich, move in rarefied and exotic circles, and are perhaps a tad shady.
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Weekly Standard and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
Steven Shepard / NationalJournal.com:
Obama, Romney Neck-and-Neck in Swing-State Polls — Mitt Romney is tied with President Obama in three key battleground states that Obama flipped from red to blue four years ago, according to new NBC News/Marist polls released early Thursday. — The states — Colorado, Iowa and Nevada …
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Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Marist Poll:
5/31: Obama and Romney Vie for Lead in Colorado — President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are neck and neck in Colorado, a state Obama won by nine points in 2008. Among registered voters statewide including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, Obama receives 46% to 45% for Romney.
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Firedoglake and CNN
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Bloomberg Plans a Ban on Large Sugared Drinks — New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.
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Boston Globe:
Warren says she told schools of heritage — Acknowledges identifying as Native American after hirings — Governor Deval Patrick (right) endorsed Elizabeth Warren's Senate candidacy at a campaign event on Wednesday. (Yoon S. Byun / Globe Staff) — Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth …
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Mj Lee / Politico:
Warren admits telling about heritage
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Boston Globe, The Volokh Conspiracy and iOwnTheWorld.com
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Fox's “Four years of hope and change”; Update: “Not authorized at the senior executive level of the network” — Considering the source. — I don't disagree with much, if anything, in this video presented earlier today on Fox & Friends. Neither, I suspect, will many of our readers.
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Justin Berrier / Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends Drops The Veil, Produces Four-Minute Anti-Obama Attack Ad
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite and Shakesville
Oliver Willis / Media Matters for America:
Fox's Anti-Obama Attack Ad Is Nearly $100,000 In Free Advertising For GOP
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Balloon Juice, Gothamist and Nice Deb
David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama team bashes Romney record as governor — President Obama's re-election team kicks off its campaign against Mitt Romney's term as governor of Massachusetts today with a new video and anti-Romney testimony from state Democrats. — The four-minute film notes that Romney raised state fees …
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CNN:
Romney's Massachusetts record under scrutiny in Obama campaign video
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Politico, The Caucus, The Hill, ABCNEWS and Connecting.the.Dots
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Dems, Axelrod plan Massachusetts presser to slam Romney
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The PJ Tatler, CNN and The Page
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Romney campaign's surreal arguments about the economy
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American Prospect, The New Republic, Eclectablog, The Huffington Post, The Maddow Blog and Daily Kos
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Two Republican Judges Declare DOMA Unconstitutional — A three judge panel of The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit just handed down a decision declaring the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. Notably, the panel included Judges Juan Torruella and Michael Boudin …
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Hot Air and The New Civil Rights Movement
Wall Street Journal:
Wisconsin Unions See Ranks Drop Ahead of Recall Vote — Public-employee unions in Wisconsin have experienced a dramatic drop in membership—by more than half for the second-biggest union—since a law championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker sharply curtailed their ability to bargain over wages and working conditions.
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Power Line, americanthinker.com, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Firedoglake
David Ariosto / CNN:
Porn actor suspected of dismembering acquaintance still on the loose — (CNN) — The search continued Thursday for a gay porn actor suspected of dismembering his acquaintance, posting the video of the incident online and mailing the severed limbs to different locations in Ottawa …
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The Jawa Report and Towleroad News #gay
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 2012 (second estimate); Corporate Profits, 1st quarter 2012 (preliminary estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States …
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msnbc.com, Hot Air, Business Insider, Calculated Risk and BizzyBlog
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Walmart Ends Financial Support For ALEC — The world's largest retailer, Walmart, has become the nineteenth group to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council. Walmart's departure from the right-wing legislation-crafting group is particularly salient because the big box chain …
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Reuters and We Party Patriots
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Republican Foreign Policy Establishment Slow to Embrace Romney — Henry A. Kissinger gave his endorsement to John McCain more than a year and a half before the last presidential election, explaining in April 2007 that Mr. McCain's “record, character, and belief that America's best days lie ahead” …
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Buddy Roemer quits 2012 race — Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer announced in a statement this morning that his quixotic independent campaign for president has come to an end. — After failing to get access to the GOP primary debates last year, Roemer had decided to run as an independent …
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CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: It Was Never Bill Clinton's Party — Yesterday, we got word that Artur Davis, the former Democratic representative from Alabama's majority-black Seventh Congressional District and failed 2010 gubernatorial candidate, jumped from the Democratic party to the Republican party.
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Washington Monthly, The Moderate Voice, The Right Sphere, Hot Air and Betsy's Page
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
In Milwaukee Post, Cardinal Authorized Paying Abusers — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.
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CNN, The New Civil Rights Movement, New York Magazine and Joe. My. God.
Ari Berman / Rolling Stone:
Florida GOP Takes Voter Suppression to a Brazen New Extreme — Imagine this: a Republican governor in a crucial battleground state instructs his secretary of state to purge the voting rolls of hundreds of thousands of allegedly ineligible voters. The move disenfranchises thousands …
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Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, Wonkette and The Maddow Blog
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republican's abortion bill risks alienating Asian Americans — Republicans long ago lost African American voters. They are well on their way to losing Latinos. And if Trent Franks prevails, they may lose Asian Americans, too. — The Arizona Republican's latest antiabortion salvo …
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