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Detroit Free Press:
Poll: Barack Obama in dead heat with Mitt Romney in Michigan as popularity slips — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, and President Barack Obama / AP — President Barack Obama's popularity in Michigan has slipped in recent months, leaving him in a dead heat …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Forecast: Obama Begins With Tenuous Advantage — The first look at the 2012 FiveThirtyEight presidential forecast has Barack Obama as a very slight favorite to win re-election. But his advantage equates to only a two-point lead in the national popular vote, and the edge …
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Business Insider, Guardian and American Prospect
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The Romney Campaign's ‘Route to 270’ Doesn't Get to 270 — A pollster's presentation aims at an electoral college victory strategy, but falls a bit short of the goal. — If you're a politician who wants people to give money to your campaign — but I repeat myself — it helps to convince those well-off donors that you can win.
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Outside the Beltway, Politico and Althouse
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Boom: Romney, RNC beat Obama's May fundraising — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee raised a combined $76.8 million in May, outdistancing President Obama and the Democratic National Committee by a wide margin. — The RNC announced on Twitter: “The RNC and @MittRomney raised $76.8M in May.”
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CNN, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon and BuzzFeed
Quinnipiac University:
Romney Trails Obama By 5 Points In Virginia, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Gay Marriage …
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Ballot Box and GOP 12
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Obama frets after ‘terrifying’ recall vote
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weaskamerica.com:
Bellwether? — When it became clear Tuesday evening that Wisconsin …
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Ballot Box
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Romney/RNC outraises Obama/DNC by nearly $17 million in May
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Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, The Ulsterman Report and The Gateway Pundit
The Caucus:
New Poll: The Supreme Court and the Health Care Law — More than two-thirds of Americans hope the Supreme Court will overturn some or all of the 2010 health care law, according to a new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. Just 24 percent said they hoped the court “would keep the entire health care law in place.”
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Pelosi defends health care law — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday defended the health care reform law, tying it to the promises written in the Declaration of Independence. — The Affordable Care Act is “about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the American people,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.
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Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
Obama's Third-Party History — On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama is killing the Democratic Party — President Obama, I have frequently argued, has been fabulous for the conservative movement. He spurred the creation of the tea party. He helped the GOP win the House majority in 2010 and make big gains in the Senate.
Matt Stoller / naked capitalism:
Wisconsin Recap: Thanks to Obama, American Left Lies in Smoldering Wreckage
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The Glittering Eye, Scared Monkeys, Booman Tribune, Examiner and The Conservatory
George W. Bush / CNN:
CNN Poll: George W. Bush only living ex-president under 50% — Washington (CNN) - More than three years after leaving office, former President George W. Bush remains unpopular with the public, according to a new national poll. — A CNN/ORC International poll also indicates that two-thirds …
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Politico:
Clinton aides: Bill screwed up — Bill Clinton's off-message musings in recent days on Mitt Romney, taxes and the state of the economy prompted a series of urgent and agitated calls between senior aides to both Clinton and President Barack Obama. — In the past, these kinds of complaints …
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Firedoglake, Hot Air, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, ABCNEWS, New York Magazine, Jammie Wearing Fools and CNN
Tim Mak / Politico:
Jeb Bush: President Obama ought to give George W. Bush a hat tip
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The Daily Caller
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
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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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
NYT: Mitt Romney Still Bullying Gays... With His House
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GayPatriot, Capital New York and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Joe Conason / The National Memo:
Did Young Mitt Romney Impersonate A Police Officer? Another Witness Says Yes — Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy — When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Lawrence O'Donnell Breaks New Mitt Romney Scandal: He Maybe Had A Police Uniform?
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The Hope For America
BuzzFeed:
Did President Obama Just Make A Blowjob Joke? — So says the pool report from his gay and lesbian fundraiser at L.A.'s Beverly Wilshire tonight. Incredibly awkward. — Obama speaks during a campaign event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills tonight. — (Getty Images / JEWEL SAMAD)
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American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ:
Bloggers' Free Speech Rights Under Attack — Free speech is under attack. Conservative writers are now facing threats against themselves, their families, and their livelihoods merely because they've aggressively investigated the history and funding of radical liberals.
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John / The City Square:
San Franciscans protest against Obama — Barack Obama, America's Fundraiser-in-Chief, visited San Francisco today in search of still more campaign cash. Because San Francisco, home to Nancy Pelosi, has a reputation as America's most liberal city, one might think that The One would be safe from criticism here.
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The Gateway Pundit, Examiner and Moonbattery
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Secret talks under way about ‘fiscal cliff’ — A growing number of lawmakers are alarmed that Congress's do-nothing posture ahead of the year-end fiscal cliff could provoke a massive voter backlash and economic catastrophe if they don't start laying the groundwork right now to cut a deal.
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Grist and Political Insider
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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Melissa Jeltsen / The Huffington Post:
President Of Estonia Slams Paul Krugman: ‘Smug, Overbearing & Patronizing’
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Politicker and Mediaite
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Foie-mageddon: California in one last foie gras binge before statewide ban — A foie gras frenzy is under way in California as the state prepares to become the first in America to ban the controversial delicacy. — California's decision to ban foie gras - pictured above in its pate form …
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Washington Monthly, Via Meadia and Babalú Blog
Jack Cashill / American Thinker:
What the Media Choose Not to Know about Trayvon — Unnerved by an unspoken mix of political bias and racial queasiness, the major media have chosen to know as little about Trayvon Martin as they know about Barack Obama. — As a case in point, consider this boy vs. man fable spun by the New York Times' Charles Blow:
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