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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Obama frets after ‘terrifying’ recall vote — President Obama will need to double down on his efforts to keep Wisconsin safely in his column after Gov. Scott Walker's (R) resounding victory in Tuesday's recall election. — Every Democratic presidential candidate since Walter Mondale in 1984 …
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Jammie Wearing Fools and Campaign Stops
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Barney Frank: Dems, unions made ‘big mistake’ in pushing for Wisconsin recall — Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) slammed unions and liberal activists for pushing to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R). — “I think the people on the Democratic side made a big mistake and the funding thing was a big deal …
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New York Times, Riehl World View, The Daily Beast, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Politico, The Hill, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Raw Story
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We Are the 119% — MSNBC: My Schadenfreude Now Blankets Cable. — Last night we got home from a dinner and discovered something wonderful when we switched on the television. There's an entire cable network called MSNBC devoted to the entertainment of conservatives.
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Salon, The Angle, The Glittering Eye, NewsBusters.org blogs, Ed Driscoll and PoliPundit.com
Kos / Daily Kos:
GOP outplaying its Wisconsin hand — Barack Obama touring Wisconsin back in February. (Jason Reed/Reuters) — I'm not going to sugarcoat it, losing the governor's race in Wisconsin sucked. While we'll crunch the numbers on turnout in a later post, the exit polls point to two major reasons …
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The “People United” Go Down In Flames — The American left as we have come to know it suffered a devastating blow in Wisconsin last night. The organized heart of the left gave everything it had to the fight against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: heart, shoe leather, wallet and soul.
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The Conservatory, The Daily Dish, The Enterprise Blog, The Razor, RedState, The Daily Caller and Political Capital
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Labor Faces New Challenge — Losses in Wisconsin, California Come as Ranks of Government Unions Decline — Barb Forgue, front, of Marshall, Wis., sings a union song in support of recalling Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday. The governor defeated the bid. — Organized labor …
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The Lonely Conservative
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Exit poll: Wisconsin in play in November
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Hot Air, The Enterprise Blog, New York Times, ABCNEWS, Wizbang, CNN, RedState, The Spectacle Blog, GOP 12, Campaign 2012, JSOnline and Twitchy
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
38% of Voters from Union Households Voted for Walker
38% of Voters from Union Households Voted for Walker
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Washington Post, Guardian, New York Times, Weasel Zippers, No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Magazine
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Rendell: Wisconsin recall a ‘dumb political fight’ for labor to pick
Rendell: Wisconsin recall a ‘dumb political fight’ for labor to pick
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Hot Air, Politico and TheBlaze.com
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Notes on the Big Win
Fox News:
Wisconsin's Walker survives recall by wide margin
Wisconsin's Walker survives recall by wide margin
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NoisyRoom.net, Conservatives4Palin, Campaign 2012, Fox News Insider, Sister Toldjah, JSOnline, Examiner and Politico
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
Meet The Walker-Obama Voter
Meet The Walker-Obama Voter
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Democratic Strategist, Campaign 2012, American Spectator, Hit & Run, Washington Post and The Daily Beast
CNN:
Romney predicts Wisconsin reverberates
Romney predicts Wisconsin reverberates
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The Rightnewz, Harry's Place and Washington Post
ABCNEWS:
Senator Asks DOJ to Investigate SWAT-ting Attacks on Conservative Bloggers — A number of conservative bloggers allege they have been targeted through the use of harassment tactics such as SWAT-ting (fooling 911 operators into sending emergency teams to their homes), in retaliation for posts …
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The Other McCain, Michelle Malkin, “The Lid”, Nice Deb, The Lonely Conservative, Breitbart Unmasked and Examiner
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Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Senator for Georgia:
Chambliss Demands Inquiry Into Attacks Against Conservative Commentators — Sends letter to Attorney General Eric Holder about recent “SWAT-ting” incidents — Sends letter to Attorney General Eric Holder about recent “SWAT-ting” incidents — WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss …
Paul Krugman:
Estonian Rhapsody — Since Estonia has suddenly become the poster child for austerity defenders — they're on the euro and they're booming! — I thought it might be useful to have a picture of what we're talking about. Here's real GDP, from Eurostat: — So, a terrible — Depression-level …
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Mediaite, NewsBusters.org blogs, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, FP Passport, World Now, The Raw Story, Campaign 2012 and CNBC
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The Candidate Next Door — ON Dunemere Drive, it seems as if just about everyone has a gripe against the owners of No. 311. — The elderly woman next door complains that her car is constantly boxed into her driveway. A few houses over, a gay couple grumbles that their beloved ocean views are in jeopardy.
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Weekly Standard, TBogg, GayPatriot, Hit & Run and The Rightnewz
John Bates / NewsBusters.org blogs:
First Lady Requires Photo ID for Her Book Signings; Voter ID Law-hating Media Fail to Note Obama Hypocrisy — The Obama administration has done its best to oppose states from instituting new, stricter voter ID laws, complaining that many minority voters lack photo identification.
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Power Line, The Lonely Conservative, The Hope For America and The PJ Tatler
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Romney: Obama slowed recovery to push Obamacare — In an appearance in Texas Wednesday, Mitt Romney charged that President Obama “knowingly slowed down the recovery in this country...in order to put in place Obamacare.” The president's action, Romney said, “deserves a lot of explaining.”
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The Caucus, Hot Air, The Hill and Viking Pundit
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Big Obama Spending Fails To Move The Needle
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Mitt Romney's Hotmail Hacker Would Like You to Know That He Is Very, Very Sorry — Yesterday, a tipster sent us a note indicating that he had successfully accessed Mitt Romney's Hotmail and DropBox accounts after guessing the answer to a security question—Romney's favorite pet.
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Truthdig, Mediaite, Indecision Forever, ABCNEWS, Politico, The Hill and Business Insider
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The Horace Mann School's Secret History of Sexual Abuse — From the elevated platform of the No. 1 train's last stop at 242nd Street, you can just about see the lush 18-acre campus of the Horace Mann School. The walk from the station is short, but it traverses worlds.
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New York Magazine, Gothamist and News Desk
TMZ.com:
14-Year-Old Talk Show Host — Homosexuality is ‘Perverted’ Choice — 14-YEAR-OLD TALK SHOW HOST — Gays Choose Perversion — No Matter What Gaga Says — You gotta laugh just a little watching a 14-year-old radio talk show host blast homosexuality as a choice people make — regardless of what Lady Gaga says.
Michelle Obama / CNN:
Michelle Obama fires up crowd in Philly — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN) - First lady Michelle Obama rallied supporters in this must-win state Wednesday, imploring the energetic crowd to help give her husband a “chance to finish what we started.” — Touting the passage of health care reform …
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Weasel Zippers and The Conservatory
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BREAKING: Another Federal Judge Strikes Down DOMA — Another federal judge has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), finding the law unconstitutional. — The victory comes in the case of Edie Windsor, who was seeking a refund of the federal estate tax paid by the estate of her late wife.
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Booman Tribune and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Jeb: 2012 was “probably my time” — Sure, Jeb Bush talked about not taking VP in his appearance on CBS this morning, but he's said that a thousand times. — This exchange was far more interesting and pretty big — he says that 2012 was probably the best moment for him to have run for president, but questions whether he could've won.
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Mediaite and The Rightnewz
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Kerry questions NYT decision to run stories — Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday questioned whether the New York Times should have published explosive stories last week about President Obama ordering cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program. — “I personally think there is a serious question whether …
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Weasel Zippers and CNN
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At least 78 killed in Syria's Hama province — Some of those killed were stabbed to death, at least 40 of the victims women and children, activists say; killings come less than 2 weeks after massacre in Houla. — BEIRUT - Activists said pro-government militia men and security forces killed …
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Guardian, Telegraph and American Power
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Public Offerings — High-Tech, High-Worth Bachelors — WHEN Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, recently, one of the world's youngest billionaires was off the market. — But that doesn't mean that there is a dearth of eligible singles in Silicon Valley.
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Betabeat
Bloomberg:
ECB Keeps Rates On Hold As Crisis Increases Pressure For Cut — The European Central Bank left interest rates on hold as the debt crisis tightens its grip on the euro-area economy, increasing pressure on policy makers to deliver further stimulus. — ECB officials meeting in Frankfurt today kept …
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Firedoglake, New York Times, Paul Krugman and Financial Times
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Toff Doctrine Monetary Policy From Alan Greenspan to Mario Draghi
Toff Doctrine Monetary Policy From Alan Greenspan to Mario Draghi
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The Atlantic Online