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Marco Rubio Not Being Vetted to Be Mitt Romney's Running Mate — (Riccardo S. Savi/WireImage/Getty Images) — Even before the Republicans chose a presidential nominee it was widely assumed that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., would be at the top of anybody's list of vice presidential candidates.
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Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg:
Obama Immigration Policy Favored 2-To-1 By Likely Voters — President Barack Obama is winning the opening round in the battle over immigration, according to a Bloomberg poll released today, putting Republicans on the defensive with his decision to end the deportations of some illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children,
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Rubio Ally Fingers Romney Adviser As Possible Leak Source — Stevens worked for Charlie Crist, and Navarro says he may have an ax to grind. — (Reuters / Mark Makela) — A top ally to Marco Rubio suggested that a prominent Romney aide was the source of the ABC News story today that Romney …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney won't call on supporters to stop heckling Obama events — Mitt Romney won't ask his supporters to stop heckling President Obama and his surrogates at campaign events. — During a radio interview on Tuesday, the presumptive GOP nominee declined an opportunity to ask his supporters to stop …
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Romney's search for a VP appears to narrow — Mitt Romney's search for a running mate appears to have narrowed, as clues of whom Romney might select as his No. 2 begin to pile up in the media. — A campaign that prides itself on discipline had, to date, exacted tight control over the process …
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Anti-Romney Protesters Say They're Paid To Heckle — Two protesters and an Obama official say “Good Jobs Now” protesters are compensated for their time. A protest leader denies it. — A few of the protesters outside Romney's rally, shortly before filing on to a charter bus parked down the street.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio isn't being seriously vetted by Romney campaign, adviser confirms — FRANKENMUTH, Mich. — Mitt Romney's vice presidential search team is not seriously vetting Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), one of the Republican Party's brightest young stars, as the all-but-certain GOP nominee …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Wawa vs. the Post Office: Bus-Capade Update — [Update On the 33-page address-change form, please see this.] — I mentioned earlier that in his big rally on Saturday night at the historic Cornwall “iron furnace” near Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney used what he had learned during …
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Andrea Mitchell to address ‘WaWa’ clip — MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell will address her program's decision to run edited footage from a Mitt Romney campaign stop that mischaracterized his statements and set off a firestorm of criticism on the right. — “Andrea will address this on her MSNBC show today …
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NO APOLOGY: MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell refuses to acknowledge they misled their viewers over Romney's Wawa comments
NO APOLOGY: MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell refuses to acknowledge they misled their viewers over Romney's Wawa comments
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Andrea Mitchell airs full Romney remarks
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: MSNBC as apologetic as you'd imagine for deceptive editing on Romney WaWa visit
Video: MSNBC as apologetic as you'd imagine for deceptive editing on Romney WaWa visit
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC mischaracterizes Romney remarks
MSNBC mischaracterizes Romney remarks
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Alec Baldwin punches Daily News photographer after obtaining marriage license in New York with fiancee Hilaria Thomas — ‘I knew he was going to attack me. I stepped back, and he kept coming,’ says News lensman — Alec Baldwin shoves Daily News photographer Marcus Santos after leaving the Marriage Bureau Tuesday morning.
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The Right Shift — Good news: last month, for the first time in weeks, Congress passed a bill! And wait until you hear what you get: by a vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. ... People, please! Control yourselves! — Yes, the Import-Export Bank.
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William Bergstrom / Politico:
Maher: GOP is the ‘Party of the Apes’
Maher: GOP is the ‘Party of the Apes’
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Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Vicki Kennedy rejects Scott Brown's proposed condition for hosting Senate debate — Victoria Reggie Kennedy today rejected Senator Scott Brown's request that she remain neutral in the unfolding Massachusetts US Senate race, a denial that could potentially scuttle a debate she proposed …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Brown rejects debate after Kennedy widow refuses to stay neutral
Brown rejects debate after Kennedy widow refuses to stay neutral
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Jim Shella / WISH-TV:
Sources: Daniels will be next Purdue University president — WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WISH) - Purdue University officials plan to vote on a candidate for the school's next president this week - and WISH-TV has learned Gov. Mitch Daniels is the candidate in question.
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‘Joe The Plumber’ Blames Gun Control For The Holocaust [Video] — “Joe The Plumber” and his shotgun in his new web video. (Photo: YouTube) — Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, the 2008 campaign microcelebrity and Ohio congressional candidate, has an interesting theory about the Holocaust.
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Joe The Plumber: Gun Control Caused The Holocaust
Joe The Plumber: Gun Control Caused The Holocaust
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Obama's Lawless Presidency Close To Totalitarianism — The Obama Record: The chief executive who swore to faithfully execute the nation's laws picks those he'll ignore and makes up others through regulation and executive order. He sees no need for a Congress or Constitution.
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Germany set to allow eurozone bailout fund to buy troubled countries' debt — Angela Merkel poised to remove opposition to direct lending by rescue fund in move seen as step towards sharing debt burden — Angela Merkel is poised to allow the eurozone's €750bn (£605bn) …
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Brooklyn family to sue city after son blinded by bullies in brutal assault at Roy H. Mann Junior High School — Exclusive: Kardin Ulysse has had two surgeries since June 5 beatdown at Bergen Beach school — Kardin Ulysse, a victim a brutal beatdown at Roy H. Mann Junior High School in Bergen Beach …
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EXCLUSIVE: Secret Service agents partied like rock stars on Obamas' Vineyard Vacation — MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MASS. - Long before President Obama's security detail was scandalized in Colombia and new revelations emerged last week about the Secret Service, members of the elite team earned an …
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BEDFORD COUNTY, VA — When Tim Morris got his mail last week he found a pretty big surprise, a document asking his dog Mozart to register to vote. — Not only is Mozart a dog but he's been dead for two years. — “I opened it up and looked at it and I just laughed,” Morris said.
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Is the U.S. economy losing jobs again? — The private sector is not fine, as some extremely worrisome economic news today emphasizes. — The government's April Job Opening and Labor Turnover report was, in the words of JPMorgan economists, “soft, lending some credence to the view …
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Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
A Cut Too Far — President Obama has decided to seek deeper cuts in deployed strategic nuclear weapons to as few as 1,000 warheads, sharply below the target of 1,550 warheads required under a 2010 U.S.-Russia arms treaty, U.S. officials said Monday. — Critics say the steep cuts …
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Karen Finney / The Hill:
Neil Munro's incivility — It's not just that interrupting the president of the United States, as Neil Munro from the Daily Caller did not once but twice last week during a routine press event in the White House Rose Garden, crossed the line from uncivil to inappropriate.
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The Rise of Asian Americans — OVERVIEW — Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place more value …
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Obama's Puzzling Immigration Decision — President Obama made waves last week by announcing significant changes to the government's stance on the deportation of certain illegal immigrants. Most analysts portrayed the decision as a smart move to shore up Obama's flagging standing with Latino voters.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker's bill would block Obama deportation policy — Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) on Monday proposed legislation that would block enforcement of President Obama's new policy of letting certain illegal immigrants request temporary relief from deportation.
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Arizona Radio Host Calls Obama a ‘Monkey’ — Barbara Espinosa, the host of an Arizona radio show called “Hair on Fire,” called the President a “monkey” on a recent radio segment. “I don't believe in calling him the first black president,” she said, “I voted for the white guy myself. I call him a monkey.”
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Barack Obama's group therapy — President Barack Obama's campaign wants to turn Mitt Romney into the candidate of old, straight, white men. — Of course, his aides would never state it so crudely. But that's the unmistakable aim of their political strategy of the past two months.
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GOP aide resigns after accusation — A top aide to Arizona Republican congressional candidate Martha McSally has resigned, one day after Democrat Ron Barber's campaign told POLITICO he had provided them with advice during the waning days of last week's special election.
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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
The Corporatization of U.Va, and America — Last week, two years into her term, Teresa Sullivan was removed as president of the University of Virginia. Helen Dragas, rector of the University's Board of Visitors—what most states call a Board of Regents—explained the situation with a brief statement …
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