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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Donors arrive at Hamptons fundraisers with advice for Mitt Romney — Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event June 27 in Sterling, Va. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) — EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - As protesters assembled on a beach in advance of Mitt Romney's evening event at the home …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Anti-Romney/Koch Brothers Demonstration Is An Epic Failure — David Koch held a fundraiser for Mitt Romney this afternoon at his home on Long Island. At this point in the election cycle, that's how the candidates are spending much of their time-attending fundraisers.
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama campaign raises $71 million in June — In an email to donors, the Obama campaign announces that it has raised $71 million in June. — From Chief Operating Officer Ann Marie Habershaw: … To recap, that's a $35 million gap between Mitt Romney and Obama in June …
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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Two arrested trying to crash Romney fundraiser, police say — Police and Secret Service agents guard the Long Island beachfront property of billionaire David H. Koch as protesters demonstrate against a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. It was one of three Romney fundraisers Sunday.
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Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Gibbs, Democrats hit Romney over offshore bank accounts — Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs ripped Mitt Romney on Monday for his personal finances. — Gibbs, who now acts as a campaign strategist for President Obama, said Romney's personal finances are relevant to his ability to deal with reforming the tax code.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
It Must Have Been Grand — This weekend Team Romney held …
It Must Have Been Grand — This weekend Team Romney held …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Romney Donor Says ‘Lower Income’ People 'Don't Understand What's Going On'
Romney Donor Says ‘Lower Income’ People 'Don't Understand What's Going On'
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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Protesters raise cloud of sand as Romney raises $3 million in N.Y.
Protesters raise cloud of sand as Romney raises $3 million in N.Y.
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New York Times:
Romney Mines the Hamptons for Campaign Cash
Romney Mines the Hamptons for Campaign Cash
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Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Majority feel Obama has changed country for worse — Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it's changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority. — A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Seeks 2013 Tax Cuts Within Limits — WASHINGTON — With a torpid job market and a fragile economy threatening his re-election chances, President Obama is changing the subject to tax fairness, calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000.
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Push Extension of Middle-Class Tax Cuts
Obama to Push Extension of Middle-Class Tax Cuts
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Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Obama to call for Bush tax cut extensions for those making less than $250,000
Obama to call for Bush tax cut extensions for those making less than $250,000
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Business Insider, Scared Monkeys and The Hill
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP unnerved by Democrats' candid camera techniques — Politicians recognize they give up a degree of privacy when they run for office. — But Democrats are testing the outer limits of that understanding with a practice that raises questions about when campaign tracking becomes something more like stalking.
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Eric Holder / CNN:
CNN Poll: Was politics behind Holder contempt vote? — Washington (CNN) - Most Americans approve of the decision by the House of Representatives to censure Attorney General Eric Holder, but a new national poll also indicates that a majority of the public thinks that House Republicans …
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Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Discord at Supreme Court is deep, and personal — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — (CBS News) Discord at the Supreme Court is deep and personal after Chief Justice John Roberts' surprise decision to side with the liberal justices in upholding a large portion of the president's health care plan.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
View Photo Gallery — The Supreme Court gets political …
View Photo Gallery — The Supreme Court gets political …
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Patrick Gavin / Reuters:
Donald Trump gets ‘statesman of year’ award — Real estate mogul. Political pundit. “Apprentice” host. Birther. Sometime presidential candidate teaser. — Also: “Statesman.” — That's the latest title to be bestowed upon Donald Trump when he receives the 2012 “Statesman of the Year” …
Muriel Kane / The Raw Story:
Florida accused of concealing worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years — The state of Florida has been struggling for months with what the Centers for Disease Control describe as the worst tuberculosis outbreak in the United States in twenty years. — Although a CDC report went …
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Crooks and Liars, Addicting Info, Liberty Street and Suburban Guerrilla
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Stacey Singer / Palm Beach Post:
Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret
Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret
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Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:
Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals — WHO is happier about life — liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic …
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Ricochet Conversations Feed, Taylor Marsh and RedState
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama Outraised In June By $35 Million — Romney widens fundraising advantage in second month of the general election. — Image by NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty Images — For the second month in a row, President Barack Obama's vaunted fundraising operation fell to Mitt Romney's …