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2:10 PM ET, July 9, 2012

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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.
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.
Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Gibbs, Democrats hit Romney over offshore bank accounts
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Tim Mak / Politico:   Report: Mitt Romney protesters crash into cop boat
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
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 …
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.
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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
CNN poll shows majority approves of Holder contempt vote
Discussion: Washington Post and hogewash
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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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama Outraised In June By $35 Million
Discussion: USA Today and Donklephant
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 …
Discussion: Law Blog
Emily Ramshaw / The Texas Tribune:
Perry: TX Won't Implement Key Elements of Health Reform … Texas will not expand Medicaid or establish a health insurance exchange, two major tenets of the federal health reform that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last month, Gov. Rick Perry said in an early morning announcement.
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Kathryn Smith / Politico:
Rick Perry rejects health care exchanges, Medicaid expansion
Discussion: CNN
Stacey Singer / Palm Beach Post:
Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret  —  State rushes closure of its only TB hospital in Lantana  —  Lilla Charline Burkhalter, 60, comes to the Clara White center for breakfast most mornings.  It was here, in the soup kitchen, that a man with active, coughing TB was recently identified …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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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 …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House to back anti-bullying grants  —  The House is expected to approve legislation as early as Monday that would provide grant money to states to fight bullying at schools.  —  “It is time for us to stand together and stop bullying,” said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), the sponsor of the bill.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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” …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus: Limbaugh boycott cost ‘millions’  —  Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey said yesterday that the advertiser boycott against Rush Limbaugh cost his company millions of dollars in revenue for the first two quarters of the year.  —  “It hit us pretty hard,” Dickey said during a call with financial analysts yesterday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Warren banks $8.6 million in second-quarter fundraising  —  Elizabeth Warren raised $8.6 million in the second quarter, her campaign announced Monday, offering further evidence of the Massachusetts candidate's fundraising prowess.  —  Warren's total outpaced her first-quarter haul by $1.7 million, and has $13.5 million cash on hand.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Mitt's Gray Areas  —  Once upon a time a rich man named Romney ran for president.  He could claim, with considerable justice, that his wealth was well-earned, that he had in fact done a lot to create good jobs for American workers.  Nonetheless, the public understandably wanted …
Tom Daschle / Politico:
Obama's 4 major ACA hurdles to go  —  The third hurdle is really 50 hurdles.  This is the challenge of working with each state to move forward on full implementation of the law's federal-state partnership requirements.  Especially in creating the heart of this reform, the state insurance exchanges.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
E.J. Dionne Jr.  —  An economics of national pride  —  The path to the White House passes through the blue-collar communities in Ohio where President Obama campaigned last week — and the middle-class suburbs of Colorado where he did well four years ago.  —  The two states illustrate …
 
 
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Dan Rather / Gawker:
The Newsroom's Third Episode Is Something ‘Every American Should See and Ponder’
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Thomas B. Edsall / Campaign Stops:
The Hollowing Out  —  It has become a campaign ritual.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Prairie Weather
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Building the free-market case against big business
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Power Line
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Tony Lee / BREITBART.COM:
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPPED IN EVERY STATE THAT ELECTED A REPUBLICAN GOV. IN 2010
Alan M. Dershowitz / Jerusalem Post:
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Discussion: Israel Matzav
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
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