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Washington Post:
President Obama, Mitt Romney deadlocked in race, poll finds — AP - A pair of tepid jobs reports, landmark Supreme Court decisions on health-care and immigration laws, and an unprecedented barrage of negative ads have shaped the opening months of the fall presidential campaign.
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Washington Post:
Obama's record on outsourcing draws criticism from the left — Barack Obama promised voters four years ago that he would work to slow the outflow of American jobs to other countries, proposing to revamp a federal tax code that encourages companies to maintain overseas operations.
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Dead Heat in Vote Preferences Presages an Epic Battle Ahead
Dead Heat in Vote Preferences Presages an Epic Battle Ahead
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The Caucus, Ballot Box, Scared Monkeys, RedState, Washington Examiner and Jammie Wearing Fools
Gregory Simmons / ABCNEWS:
Veepstakes: Portman Met with Romney Aides
Veepstakes: Portman Met with Romney Aides
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GOP 12, Ballot Box and Guardian
Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
GOP looks to paint Obama as outsourcer of stimulus dollars
GOP looks to paint Obama as outsourcer of stimulus dollars
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney: ‘Nothing hidden’ in withheld tax returns — Mitt Romney insisted in an interview airing Tuesday that there was “nothing hidden” in his tax returns, amid new calls from President Obama and other top Democrats for the Republican challenger to release more details about his financial holdings.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney rips Obama's tax proposal
Romney rips Obama's tax proposal
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Politico, Wake up America and Shakesville
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Biden: 'Mitt Romney wants you to show your papers, but he won't show us his'
Biden: 'Mitt Romney wants you to show your papers, but he won't show us his'
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Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Rep. Chaffetz: No need for Romney to release more tax records
Rep. Chaffetz: No need for Romney to release more tax records
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Republican Rep: I Don't Think Someone Who Is Diagnosed With A Brain Tumor Should Have Health Care Provided — On Monday evening, Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) said that insurance companies should be allowed to discriminate against people with brain tumors during a House Rules Committee debate …
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Repealing health law would mean more benefits for members of Congress — Repealing President Obama's healthcare law would let members of Congress keep their government-subsidized insurance coverage after they retire — a benefit they lost under the health law.
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Prairie Weather
Politico:
Embattled Dems buck President Obama on taxes — President Barack Obama's renewed push to raise taxes on people who make more than $250,000 is facing some strong head winds: Democrats running for Congress in 2012. — Several Democrats in critical House and Senate races say they prefer raising taxes …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
On tax cuts, Obama decides to fight
On tax cuts, Obama decides to fight
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New York Times, Daily Kos, Economix, The New Republic and A plain blog about politics
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama Trails Romney Again in Battle for Campaign Cash — In the battle for political cash, President Obama is finding himself in an unaccustomed place during the final months of the 2012 campaign: he is losing. — Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee easily outraised …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Senior Obama adviser: Romney backers trying to ‘purchase’ election
Senior Obama adviser: Romney backers trying to ‘purchase’ election
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The PJ Tatler
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Chicago keeps up Romney tax attacks
Chicago keeps up Romney tax attacks
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Sally Nelson / The Daily Caller:
Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare — Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama's health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.
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Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
THIS IS WHAT RIGHT-WINGERS DO. THIS IS ALL THEY DO.
THIS IS WHAT RIGHT-WINGERS DO. THIS IS ALL THEY DO.
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The Maddow Blog, Balloon Juice and The Impolitic
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Ethics panel clears Buchanan on charge of misleading Congress — The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday cleared Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) on charges that he violated House rules by intentionally misleading Congress about his finances. — The secretive ethics panel stated that the errors found within …
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Karoun Demirjian / Las Vegas Sun:
Formal ethics investigation likely to dog Berkley for duration of Senate campaign
Formal ethics investigation likely to dog Berkley for duration of Senate campaign
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Jack Minor / WND:
BRAD PITT'S MOM IN FEAR AFTER SLAMMING OBAMA — Quaking after being attacked for opposing same-sex marriage — Jane Pitt, mother of actor Brad Pitt, has been scared into silence by the hate-filled, vulgar and even violent reaction to her public assertion that Barack Obama is …
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Chicago Mayor Appeals to Gangsters' ‘Values’: ‘Get Away From That Kid’ — (CNSNews.com) - If Chicago's street thugs are going to attack each other, they should take their fight away from innocent children, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the CBS Evening News on Monday.
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Erin Durkin / NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg launches contest to stir development of tiny 300-square-foot apartments for singles — Larger than a jail cell, but smaller than mobile home, ministudios will reflect city's changing demographics. They'll be big enough for bathroom, kitchen, sleeping and dining areas
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Guardian, Michelle Malkin and Perdido Street School
Wall Street Journal:
Political Spending by Unions Far Exceeds Direct Donations — Organized labor spends about four times as much on politics and lobbying as generally thought, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, a finding that shines a light on an aspect of labor's political activity that has often been overlooked.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Cracks Appear in Republican Unity on Health Law Repeal — WASHINGTON — A House vote to fully repeal President Obama's health care law was supposed to be the coup de grâce for “Obamacare,” a final sweeping away of a law that Republicans thought the Supreme Court would gut and leave for dead.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Dem. Chair Invested in Swiss Banks, Foreign Drug Companies, and the State Bank of India — Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India.
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Thomas E. Ricks / New York Times:
Let's Draft Our Kids — IN late June, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former commander of international forces in Afghanistan, called for reinstating the draft. “I think if a nation goes to war, every town, every city needs to be at risk,” he said at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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EconLog, Connecting.the.Dots and The Daily Caller
Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
Ex-GOP lawmaker says conservatives must end ‘denial’ on climate — Former South Carolina GOP Rep. Bob Inglis, who was vanquished by a Tea Party insurgent in 2010, is urging conservatives to stop denying that humans are contributing to global warming. — Inglis, who will lead a new initiative …
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