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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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Midwest Democracy, Business Insider and American Prospect
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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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Rasmussen Reports, The Hill, CNN, The Caucus, National Review, Washington Post, New York Magazine, GOP 12, msnbc.com, The Rightnewz, Hot Air and TheBlaze.com
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
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Boom: Romney, RNC beat Obama's May fundraising
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CNN, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon and BuzzFeed
Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Democrats, Obama Raise $60 Million in May
Democrats, Obama Raise $60 Million in May
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Hot Air, CNN, Outside the Beltway, The Ulsterman Report and The Gateway Pundit
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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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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Rush Limbaugh, protein wisdom, Bookworm Room, Power Line, Weasel Zippers, The Daley Gator, Pundit & Pundette, Moonbattery, The PJ Tatler and The Caucus
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Wisconsin Recap: Thanks to Obama, American Left Lies in Smoldering Wreckage
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Scared Monkeys, The Glittering Eye, Booman Tribune and Examiner
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Obama frets after ‘terrifying’ recall vote
Obama frets after ‘terrifying’ recall vote
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Wall Street Journal, msnbc.com, Wake up America, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, ABCNEWS, New York Times, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Mediaite, NewsBusters.org blogs, Vodkapundit, Pirate's Cove, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Beast, Hot Air, Jammie Wearing Fools, Ballot Box, Via Meadia, American Prospect and National Review
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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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Erika Johnsen / Hot Air:
NYT/CBS News poll: More than 2/3 of Americans hope SCOTUS will bring the pain on ObamaCare
NYT/CBS News poll: More than 2/3 of Americans hope SCOTUS will bring the pain on ObamaCare
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Wizbang and The Volokh Conspiracy
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Sebelius: 'We'll be ready' if Supreme Court strikes healthcare law
Sebelius: 'We'll be ready' if Supreme Court strikes healthcare law
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Weasel Zippers and Politico
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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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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CNN, Firedoglake, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, ABCNEWS, New York Magazine and Jammie Wearing Fools
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An urgent plea to political reporters — Let's all stop pretending imaginary “gaffes” are real — Let's all agree to just not pretend the president made an “oral sex joke” at his gay fundraiser last night, because that's stupid. It's stupid, and most of the people with jobs …
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New York Times, Weasel Zippers, Guardian and Washington Post
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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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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
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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
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Cathryn Kulat / The Hill:
Boehner on Europe crisis: 'I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel'
Boehner on Europe crisis: 'I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel'
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The Maddow Blog and New York Times
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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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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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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
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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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Ed Rendell: Barack Obama Will Find Pennsylvania ‘Definitely In Play’ … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Barack Obama , Video, Ed Rendell, Obama Bloomberg, Bloomberg Rendell, Obama 2012, Obama General Election, Obama Pa, Obama Rendell, Rendell 2012, Rendell Obama, Politics News
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PoliticsPA, Politico, JOSHUAPUNDIT and Washington Free Beacon
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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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Fund47, The Gateway Pundit, Examiner, The Jawa Report and Moonbattery
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Gramm and Hubbard: What a Romney Recovery Might Look Like — Given last week's grim jobs report, it's now clearer than ever that the November election will be a referendum on the economy. Has the president's program worked? Does Mitt Romney have a better program to promote job creation and prosperity?
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The Daily Beast, The Glittering Eye and Ezra Klein