Mitt Romney stayed at Bain 3 years longer than he stated  —  Firm's 2002 filings identify him as CEO, though he said he left in 1999  —  Nine SEC filings submitted by four different business entities after February 1999 describe Romney as Bain boss.  —  Government documents filed …

Poll: Cruz up on Dewhurst in Texas  —  The Republican pollster that signaled Dick Lugar's demise and Deb Fischer's late surge is now flagging an upset in the making in the Texas Senate race.  —  Tea party favorite Ted Cruz is leading Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst 47 percent to 38 percent in the GOP runoff …

How the Mormons Make Money  —  (Updated with magazine version.  Removes an earlier reference to a Twitter account that is not Thomas S. Monson's official account.)  —  Late last March the Mormon Church completed an ambitious project: a megamall.  Built for roughly $2 billion …

Mitt Romney ‘deliberately got booed by the NAACP to appeal to white racists’  —  The Romney campaign has been accused of deliberately getting the Republican presidential candidate booed by black people during his NAACP speech to attract votes ‘in certain racist precincts’, by MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell.

The Obama Campaign's Top Ten Lies & Exaggerations  —  “We knew when President Obama was elected he had no experience, but at least we thought he'd tell us the truth.  President Obama's campaign has spent millions of dollars on television spreading distortions and falsehoods about Governor Romney's record.

KRUGMAN: The Government Has To Do More Deficit Spending To Avoid A Full-On Depression  —  In order to avoid a full-on depression, the U.S. government needs to ignore the size of the deficit and start spending to stimulate the economy, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman tells us.

Obama Holds Lead, Romney Trails on Most Issues  —  Record Negatives for Supreme Court Driven by GOP Discontent  —  OVERVIEW  —  Despite the stagnant economy and broad dissatisfaction with national conditions, Barack Obama holds a significant lead over Mitt Romney.

The state of play for men: Domestic Violence  —  Myth: Domestic violence is a crime largely perpetrated by aggressive men against women.  —  Summary: Men under report incidents of domestic violence targeted at them, and society downplays the scale of male suffering, and in many cases, refuses to acknowledge that it exists at all.

Obama's Shrinking Majority  —  He won 9.5 million more votes than McCain.  That won't happen again.  —  Elections are about numbers, and right now the president's are bad.  To understand why, consider 2008 as a reference point.  That year, Barack Obama received 69,456,897 votes to John McCain's 59,934,814.

Hawaii Senate Poll: Lingle Leads Hirono, Ties Case  —  A new internal poll (via Politico) shows former Hawaii governor Linda Lingle ahead of one of her potential challengers and statistically tied with another in that state's U.S. Senate race.  Lingle, a two-term Republican governor …

Warren and Brown share July 12 anniversary date  —  Table for four at L'Espalier?  —  Perhaps not.  —  But after months of jabbing each other with insults and attacks, Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown - and their spouses — will celebrate a warmer milestone Thursday, if not together, at least with the same spirit.