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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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CNN, The Hill, National Review, Rasmussen Reports, Hot Air, GOP 12, The Rightnewz, msnbc.com and TheBlaze.com
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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 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
Quinnipiac University:
Romney Trails Obama By 5 Points In Virginia, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Gay Marriage …
Romney Trails Obama By 5 Points In Virginia, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Gay Marriage …
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Ballot Box and GOP 12
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Boom: Romney, RNC beat Obama's May fundraising
Boom: Romney, RNC beat Obama's May fundraising
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CNN, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon and BuzzFeed
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Romney/RNC outraises Obama/DNC by nearly $17 million in May
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
Pelosi defends health care law
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Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
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.
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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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Matt Stoller / naked capitalism:
Wisconsin Recap: Thanks to Obama, American Left Lies in Smoldering Wreckage
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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Meena Hart Duerson / NY Daily News:
George W. Bush is the most unpopular living ex-President: poll
George W. Bush is the most unpopular living ex-President: poll
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Politico and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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Alex Pareene / Salon:
An urgent plea to political reporters
An urgent plea to political reporters
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New York Times, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers and Guardian
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?
Lawrence O'Donnell Breaks New Mitt Romney Scandal: He Maybe Had A Police Uniform?
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The Hope For America
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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weaskamerica.com:
Bellwether? — When it became clear Tuesday evening that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker would survive the recall process against challenger Tom Barrett, cable network talking head turned to the key question for many politically minded Americans: what will Wisconsin's affirmation of Walker mean to the presidential race this fall?
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Ballot Box
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Obama frets after ‘terrifying’ recall vote
Obama frets after ‘terrifying’ recall vote
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Obama on defensive
Obama on defensive
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Boston Globe, Capital New York and New York Times
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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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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Rush Limbaugh, Grist and Political Insider
Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Jeb Bush: I Hope Mitt Romney Would Accept 10-To-1 Spending Cuts To Revenue Deal … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Elections 2012, Video, Election 2012, Grover Norquist, Bush Spending Cuts, Bush Tax Increases, Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush Spending Cuts, Jeb Bush Taxes, Politics News
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hope For America and National Review
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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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New York Post:
Stuyvesant HS students hold ‘Slutty Wednesday’ to protest school's strict dress code policy — Nearly 100 smarties at the city's top-performing high school bared their bodies in “risque” outfits yesterday to denounce their school's conservative dress code — which bans the exposure of shoulders, midriffs, lower backs, bras and undies.
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The Jawa Report, The Daily Caller, ABCNEWS, New York Times and Gawker
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
Melissa Jeltsen / The Huffington Post:
President Of Estonia Slams Paul Krugman: ‘Smug, Overbearing & Patronizing’ … FOLLOW: — Paul Krugman, Video, Euro Zone, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Austerity, Estonia, Estonia President, Euro Zone Crisis, Euro-Zone, Paul Krugman Austerity, Business News — The president of Estonia chewed …
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Politicker and Mediaite
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Paul Krugman:
Estonian Rhapsody — Since Estonia has suddenly become …
Estonian Rhapsody — Since Estonia has suddenly become …
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International Liberty, Mediaite, Politicker, Hit & Run, Questions and Observations, Fausta's Blog, Washington Free Beacon, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, American Glob, americanthinker.com, NewsBusters.org blogs, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, FP Passport, World Now, The Raw Story and Campaign 2012
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: